They say you can't own an idea, or can you? A sad realization in this world is that there are some systems in place that just make no sense. We're supposed to advance in society and help build mankind, but if somebody invents the frisbee, but better, they'll be facing a lawsuit because somebody already thought about plates you can throw hundreds of years ago.
Maybe not to that exact extreme, but the reasoning behind many intellectual property suits isn't too far off the mark. In the music industry, we see people get sued for saying the same phrase somebody did in the 70s, or they can get sued for using a similar set of notes as somebody. In the video game industry, it's represented in Nintendo taking down fan made games, what happened in the Retro Game Room several years ago, in developers like those behind Yooka Laylee, Bloodstained, and Mighty No.9 who lost the rights to their iconic franchises and had to start over, and as hundreds of developers eagerly want to make a new Banjo Kazooie on behalf of Rare, Microsoft continues to sit on the rights to the franchise, letting the dust pile up despite the clear potential.
How do you feel about intellectual property laws? Do you think that they're a necessary protection to make sure ideas don't end up stolen and knocked off, or do you believe them to be ridiculous tools that rich people to sue poor people with?
They say you can't own an idea, or can you? A sad realization in this world is that there are some systems in place that just make no sense. We're supposed to advance in society and help build mankind, but if somebody invents the frisbee, but better, they'll be facing a lawsuit because somebody already thought about plates you can throw hundreds of years ago.
Maybe not to that exact extreme, but the reasoning behind many intellectual property suits isn't too far off the mark. In the music industry, we see people get sued for saying the same phrase somebody did in the 70s, or they can get sued for using a similar set of notes as somebody. In the video game industry, it's represented in Nintendo taking down fan made games, what happened in the Retro Game Room several years ago, in developers like those behind Yooka Laylee, Bloodstained, and Mighty No.9 who lost the rights to their iconic franchises and had to start over, and as hundreds of developers eagerly want to make a new Banjo Kazooie on behalf of Rare, Microsoft continues to sit on the rights to the franchise, letting the dust pile up despite the clear potential.
How do you feel about intellectual property laws? Do you think that they're a necessary protection to make sure ideas don't end up stolen and knocked off, or do you believe them to be ridiculous tools that rich people to sue poor people with?