Money Whisperer wrote:
Masukuma, we do have a clear knowledge of what IP is. uliza uambiwe.Cracking jokes at a party is different from publishing an article. Even when you crack a joke expecting to generate income from it, if it is not yours then acknowledge where you got it and if royalties are due pay them
masukuma wrote:on intellectual property, WE DON'T
We don't AND THUS THE 4 PAGE DISCUSSION!
Can tell me how Africa benefits from the current intellectual property regime?
perhaps one of the most profound arguments against the current regime is found in the wise words of Thomas Jefferson
Quote:"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me."
And thus I ask - how does Mukoko's publishing part of the article of whomever it was that first wrote letters to themselves diminish THE ORIGINAL WORK?
All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!