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Cake day: July 26th, 2023

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  • Sowas ist einfach nicht Karriere-dienlich. Es müssen immer Artikel in angesehenen Journalen sein. Die gewachsene Kultur ist einfach nicht an das Internetzeitalter angepasst. Es müsste ja nicht immer ein eigener Artikel sein.

    So eine gewachsene Kultur ist schwer zu ändern, aber was mich richtig ankotzt sind die Journale. Durch die besondere Stellung können die massive Monopolgewinne abschöpfen. Die Mittel fehlen dann in den Forschungsbudgets. Gleichzeitig besteht dann ein großes finanzielles Interesse die Sonderstellung der Journale zu bewahren, anstatt die wissenschaftliche Praxis zu optimieren.


  • Veröffentlichte Artikel geben ohnehin nur ein verzerrtes Bild der tatsächlichen Forschung und der durchgeführten Experimente wieder. Persönliche Aufzeichnungen werden auch regelmäßig vernichtet, wenn jemand die Uni verlässt oder in den Ruhestand geht. Ist schade für Historiker, aber tja. In Deutschland wären irgendwelche Archivierungsversuche wahrscheinlich illegal.

    ETA: Was sollen denn die Downvotes sagen? Hat man das inzwischen verbessert und ich bin nicht auf dem Laufenden? Kann sein, weiß aber so keiner. Schreibt doch wenigstens 1 Satz dazu, um wenigstens minimal konstruktiv beizutragen.





  • It’s noteworthy that patent law is 20 years to this day. It has survived with its core fairly intact, the main change being that you can no longer get a patent for bringing an invention into the country. Today that is called piracy (poor China).

    I believe that is because patents simply have to work for the whole country in encouraging progress. If cultural production is stifled, well… Who cares? The elites in the copyright industry benefit, and they have an outsize influence on public discourse.











  • The Statute of Anne 1710 gives this justification: […]for the Encouragement of Learned Men to Compose and Write useful Books.

    There are many precursors, but I don’t think they can be called copyright in the modern sense. All guilds had monopolies which they defended at the expense of society. It was a feature of feudalism that the elites sought to prevent change to preserve their positions.

    But yes, copyright is the major remaining limitation on the freedom of the (printing) press.

    (It’s interesting how many of the demands to regulate AI are parallel to the controls on the printing press, in the first few centuries after its introduction in Europe.)


  • Not as far as I know. The continental European copyright-equivalent preserves feudal ideas.

    Rulers granted monopolies to their cronies to allow them to extract money. These privileges were finally abandoned in the wake of the French Revolution. Ethical considerations aside, this was necessary to allow for industrialization/economic development. Except for “copyright”, which is democratized by automatically granting it to everyone, rather than being a special favor. The continental patent system works much like the US one, granting a “mere” 20 year monopoly. Copyright duration is tied to the death of the author, showing its nature as a personal privilege.

    Small wonder then that the US copyright industry has come to dominate. Unfortunately, it has leveraged this power for rent-seeking so that much of the harmful, European model was adopted in the US.

    You are right, though, that the European model has no regard for public benefit but is quite concerned with the “honor” of the creator.