[p2p-research] CAD files at The PIrate Bay? (Follow up)

[Samuel Rose]

I don't know about others, but for my own project releases, I prefer
to release under copyleft license by default.

I am not 100% sure if this protects me from patent predation, yet I
think that time stamps etc can at least make a beginning case for
"prior art"



On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Kevin Carson
<free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:
> It just occurred me, but isn't the whole question of file-sharing
> patented designs only of interest to a fairly limited subset of the
> Making movement?  Given (literally) a micromanufacturing economy of
> 100,000 small shops with CNC tools, it seems pretty unlikely that
> patents would even enter into the picture for a garage manufacturer
> serving a market area of a few thousand people.  After all, securing a
> patent is extremely expensive and takes a long time.  It probably
> wouldn't even be worth it for someone not engaged in large-batch
> manufacturing.
>
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