Vitus Wagner's Journal: It I would be a dictator...

... I'd make following Intellectual Property Rules:

1. Commercial secrets are illegal. Any hiding
of know-how from customers is punished
by inprisonment.

2. List of things which can be made goverment
secrets is explicitely given by law, and no
thing not listed in this list can be secret.

3. Patents have different periods in different trades, but no patents can last
more than 5 years. Goverment each year publish periods for patents in different areas and the quickier area develops the
shorter is period. For IT and biotechnology
it should be no longer than 3 monthes currently.

4. All material author rights are terminated
upon death of author. Only moral rights such
as right for name and right to prevent unauthorized modifications of book last forever.

5. No author is allowed to sell exclusive rights to anybody. All contracts
which include prohibition to sell same work to other entity are void.

6. Author, who have sold his work to publisher under certain terms, is obliged
to sell same work to any other publisher who offer same or better terms. (and anybody can find out which terms was used, according to p.1)