@lain i have a complicated thing about that. eventually yes, we could get rid of all of it. maybe.

in the short term--it's too broad now. patents were never intended to apply to math and historically were not allowed to apply to math. copyright is labeled "to further the arts." but was extended to infinity. we can't nuke it entirely [in current circumstances] because, well, if you don't want entertainers being able to support themselves anymore i guess you could :blobcatdunno:

copyright itself doesn't really stop people from becoming new authors and artists, but it does need to be heavily reduced back down to a reasonable level.

patents idk i don't like them. argument to be made that it gives inventors something to bait investment with, but the amount this actually works is much less. it actually does cause some problems, there's a lot less evidence we need to keep them.

@galena @aven @newt