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- johnky...
I prefer to think of IP law as a system designed to incentivise the creation and dissemination of works that are valuable to others. I've never been comfortable with the framing that its primary function is to grant authors or inventors “moral rights” over their work, as though... - Paulleverich...
That story hits like a brick because it exposes a question most legal systems try very hard not to answer: What is the actual punishment for a crime?... - Paulleverich...
That story keeps sticking with me. A man spent eleven months in pretrial detention over the alleged theft of a $40 backpack. Whether he was guilty or innocent almost becomes secondary to the larger question: what is justice supposed to accomplish?...