Episode 346 • • 2:15:31 - 2:20:32
346: The Indignati
ACTA Treaty, Intellectual Property and Saxophones
The Obama administration has signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in secret. A WIPO official suggests that if the World Wide Web had been patented, it could have funded more research. The hosts discuss the history of the saxophone patent from 1842 as a contrast to modern rigid patent systems.