Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google discusses Intellectual Property

Dr. Schmidt delivered the keynote address at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's launch of a New Vision for global think tanks. For more information visit http://www.ceip.org

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• ip
• internet
• google
• intellectual
• property
• copyright

[cdntechonline]

i dont believe that their time has past for patents and intellectual property, although I do feel as though that there is a strong need for reform in the area. copyright and intellectual property are two very different things. the internet(especially google) has really challenged the way we view copyright as a part of intellectual property law and our general culture.

[umbilicaltapeworm]

@A1R5N1P3R I also own a business, building custom furniture. I have patented a couple of my designs but only to keep from getting sued in the future. you should not feel threatened if you can provide a superior service to your customers; you can't patent good service. I wish you luck in all your endeavors sir. please watch that video I mentioned, it might at least give you a better idea of where I'm coming from...

[A1R5N1P3R]

@umbilicaltapeworm You can now resort to the trolling retort, but the simple fact is, intellectual property in the internet age matters to me. Being very creative, and having made money from my ideas in the past, the prospect of investing in a delivery mechanism only to have content stolen has deterred me from doing so. So go ahead and waste your time, and amount to nothing; that's another prediction coming true.

[umbilicaltapeworm]

@A1R5N1P3R wow you really do have a crystal ball don't you, read me like a book because you're apparently omnipotent. only those who agree with you are of any value to humanity, what a developed ethos... if what I have to say is of zero interest, what's up with the four replies?

[A1R5N1P3R]

@umbilicaltapeworm No, I doubt you're creative at all, or you would've come up with better arguments, and your ethos would be more developed. But the idea that one can't retain rights to their own work? I can tell you aren't very creative, that what you have to offer humanity isn't of much interest, or you'd be saying pretty much what I am right now.

[umbilicaltapeworm]

@A1R5N1P3R what else do you see in your crystal ball? please stop calling me a thief and a pirate; you don't know me or what I have done. I am a strong advocate of property rights as an extension of the individual and his labor. ideas are property only when they are confined to the mind of the individual, but when you share them you are giving up that right. I will never stop being creative because that's who I am.

check out Stephan Kinsella's "Intellectual Property and Libertarianism" on YT..

[A1R5N1P3R]

@umbilicaltapeworm By playing this game of ignorance, what your mindset will bring upon us is a society where school teaches even less and where virtual computers are a reality and no one will own a solid piece of hardware except as an interface to an archive. If what you're looking to do is bring that about, then you're doing an excellent job of it. What the pirate mindset does is tell creative people not to bother intorducing their ideas to the masses, because of theft.

[umbilicaltapeworm]

@A1R5N1P3R I'm not refuting natures laws, I'm refuting mans laws. is it your position that the government is omniscient and infallible? are you implying a moral equivalence between sharing a track from a CD with a friend and stealing your neighbour's goods and handing them round?

[A1R5N1P3R]

@umbilicaltapeworm Circular logic, is this concept new to you? Perhaps at your metality it is, but the world, and it's laws exist. You want to change that? Go to school, study law, get a degree, and then go about refuting them. But wait - that would require hard work and sacrifice, something someone advocating piracy and theft haven't a clue of. Good luck to you Mr Daydreamer.

[umbilicaltapeworm]

@A1R5N1P3R lol is this what you call "discounting" my argument? please try to answer at least one of my questions before claiming such a thing. try to do it without using any old words, as these words "convey thoughts and ideas, which as a whole can be copywritten as IP". you wouldn't want to get busted for robbery would you...?