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Google's PageRank patent has expired
If copyright only lasted a year, you can bet the industry would move to much shorter release cycles and still capture most of the value.
gomox
on June 1, 2019
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Actually research would move in the direction of things whose value can be captured within a year. The patent system shapes the IP industry as whole.
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