"Bad patents like this cast a massive shadow on the industry."

According to videogame patent lawyer Kirk Sigmon, the USPTO granting Nintendo these latest patents isn’t just a moment of questionable legal theory. It’s an indictment of American patent law.

“Broadly, I don’t disagree with the many online complaints about these Nintendo patents,” said Sigmon, whose opinions do not represent those of his firm and clients. “They have been an embarrassing failure of the US patent system.”

  • AgentRocket@feddit.orgEnglish
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    3 小时前

    If instead you would be paid for the making of the music regardless of how many copies of a digital file you sold by a better system that’s not based on private property

    And how would that system decide how much you get paid and where would the money for that payment come from? How do you make sure a carefully crafted piece of music, that brings happiness to millions of people gets paid fairly compared to someone just putting together a song in 5 minutes by pressing random notes on the keyboard?

    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 小时前

      Any system to evaluate compensation would be better than the actual one, which is a completely mess that does not properly compensate artists for their work.

      Currently marketing, frontstore presence and market dominance is far more relevant on a particular artist income than their craft.

      Any system that actually would think about what people think about a particular craft, how much time and effort got put into it, how much it was enjoyed, etc, would be better. Currently is just about who can make more sales and get more ad money, the art is secondary and I’m being generous.