Intellectual property challenges in rapidly evolving technology and knowledge-based economies

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😎 “The notion of intellectual property only makes sense since machines allow the copying, reproduction and manipulation of information: from Gutenberg’s printing press to the Internet, passing through typewriters, the radio, TV, mainframes, 1980s computers running Dos, 2000s computers running Windows, the most complete transformer network running on the fastest Nvidia GPU ever made… whatever. Intellectual property is ‘simply’ about arbitrating and organizing the economic sub-products of human communication (anything we understand as ‘art’ or ‘creation’ is basically a form of communication). Intellectual property is just about regulating the economic subproduct, it has nothing to do art, creativity, or invention. The reason why someone (a copyright office, patent office, whatever) needs to arbitrate and organize those economic sub-products is that economic value stems fundamentally and increasingly from the application of technology, as societies evolve from resource-based economies to more complex structures we might arguably label ‘knowledge-based economies.’ The big problem we have now is that technologies evolve and change so fast (because of economic incentives) that laws become obsolete faster than society and lawmakers can even cope with the impact of technology in the economic sub-products of their communication and everything else in their lives, including jobs, health, politics… I don’t have a solution for the copyright issues with generative algorithms, nobody has, and there will always be a confrontation of perspectives (I have mine, which is irrelevant here), but we should consider that, before a new intellectual property law is fixed and agreed to arbitrate and organize the use of the technology we have now, a new technology that changes the rules of the game will have likely appeared. It’s inevitable, it’s the way civilization advances. However, this problems with intellectual property are not as old as technology, it’s an issue of the late 20th century onwards… I guess the notion of intellectual property will simply gradually fade away, as it was objectively not ‘a thing’ for most of human history. That’s just a prediction, not an opinion.”

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🤖 “The notion of intellectual property only makes sense because machines allow the copying, reproduction, and manipulation of information: from Gutenberg’s printing press to the Internet, including typewriters, the radio, TV, mainframes, 1980s computers running DOS, 2000s computers running Windows, the most complete transformer network running on the fastest Nvidia GPU ever made… whatever. Intellectual property is ‘simply’ about arbitrating and organizing the economic sub-products of human communication (anything we understand as ‘art’ or ‘creation’ is basically a form of communication). Intellectual property is just about regulating the economic sub-product; it has nothing to do with art, creativity, or invention. The reason why someone (a copyright office, patent office, whatever) needs to arbitrate and organize those economic sub-products is that economic value stems fundamentally and increasingly from the application of technology, as societies evolve from resource-based economies to more complex structures we might arguably label ‘knowledge-based economies.’ The big problem we have now is that technologies evolve and change so fast (because of economic incentives) that laws become obsolete faster than society and lawmakers can cope with the impact of technology on the economic sub-products of their communication and everything else in their lives, including jobs, health, politics… I don’t have a solution for the copyright issues with generative algorithms, nobody does, and there will always be a confrontation of perspectives (I have mine, which is irrelevant here), but we should consider that, before a new intellectual property law is fixed and agreed to arbitrate and organize the use of the technology we have now, a new technology that changes the rules of the game will likely have appeared. It’s inevitable; it’s the way civilization advances. However, these problems with intellectual property are not as old as technology; it’s an issue of the late 20th century onwards… I guess the notion of intellectual property will simply gradually fade away, as it was objectively not ‘a thing’ for most of human history. That’s just a prediction, not an opinion.”

Note: Minor grammatical and punctuation corrections were made.

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