AskProfWolff: Patents and Copyrights: A Socialist Approach

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A Patron of Economic Update asks: "What is the role of patents and copyrights in a socialist society based on worker coop enterprises? These government granted monopolies are the main causes of income distribution to the few who can fund or buy research that gets patented or receive copyrights. How do independent artists, researchers, inventors get funded and recognized in a socialist society. I know that in the Netherlands that the government purchases artworks and rents them to companies and individuals. What is an ideal method of giving incentive to creative people, financially, socially, and economically."
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