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		londons_explore on June 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 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 [–]

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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