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Remove all IP laws tbh. It would lead to a better outcome.
And it should obviously vary on the thing we're talking about. Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents, and Software Patents are entirely different things. General "IP" is a lawyer invention.
What I really want to see is the removal of IP as a protected asset that can be traded. I only want the original creator (a human, not a corporation) to get exclusivity for their work. They can license it to people/companies while alive, and MAYBE assign a beneficiary upon death that gets some temporary exclusive rights to it, but that's it.
My solution for R&D teams and commissioned work is that your contract with employees would cover that. You'd require the inventor to grant the company exclusive license to the product. Also patents are attributed to whoever submits them, and multiple people at the company can share credit for the invention. You'd make it understood what will happen in employment contracts.
It only falls apart in the unlikely scenario that all the listed creator(s) drop dead shortly after the invention, before the company had time to recoup their investment.
I think S. Korea had something similar, but government corruption and greed got the best of them. Samsung IP was supposed to go public domain when the founder died. They could not let that happen.
Patent law doesn't necessarily prevent that scenario today. If you're a small company and a big company clones/steals your patented tech, they'll just drag the lawsuit on as long as possible in an attempt to bankrupt you.
Or some Chinese firm will do it, and you'll have to bank on Customs seizing the shipments of infringing product as they're imported. That's something big companies have trouble doing let alone small-timers.
There is plenty of reason for invention. Make life better. That's the incentive. When money is the driver of incentive in society you're already starting from a complete wrong position. IP law actually stiffles invention and is far from fair. Just because I invented an idea 1 second faster than when you would have invented it (an exaggeration) doesn't mean I should get 10-15 years of a monopoly on it.
People will still invent things. Oh maybe they wouldn't invent mindless music and stupid tv shows and movies and other degenerate things but actual beneficial industrial innovation would still be invented because they improve productivity and efficiency. People would still make art and stories and some plays and movies etc... Because it's not about the money. I think you'd see less media but more quality media.
If you work to develop something that makes Amazon better, first of all that's Amazon's property, didn't you read your employer's agreement?
Anyway, yeah you do it to get promoted in the company and a higher paying job. You do it to reduce your workload. My first job I got out of university I automated everything I could and ended up turning a 10 hour job into a 2 hour job then I played video games and watched football at work for the remainder of the 10 hour shift.
I'm not a commie but I'm against profit being the driving force of a society. Morality and striving toward being moral should be the main goal. People should want to invent because that's a reflection of their good character. Lazy dumb slobs with poor moral values should just get shit jobs anyway. They aren't going to invent anything anyway.