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Imitation, Creation and Intellectual Property

Sep 28, 20195 min read

Backlash against “Japanese are good imitators”

critical importance of language

Steve Jobs: Good artists copy, great artists steal

The theory that what is said depends on the outcome, not the process of imitation.

  • parody or imitation

Tarde Types of Imitation.

Articles of Imitation, Surprisingly Few

U.S. triple compensation for willful infringement.

Innovation and invention developed using.

sore loser

Shuhari model

  • Description of the current state model # Languages
  • Selecting the point of change
  • Transformation of that point

IBM lobbied so that software could be patented.

Meiji Restoration

  • 1/3 of national budget invested in study abroad

Geographic Factors in Japan

  • Eurasia
  • About the same latitude
    • Low cost of cultural transmission
    • Imitation was more economically rational.
  • Internet age
    • The flow of information has changed.
    • Language barriers rather than geographic factors
      • nishio.iconExperience of [Unexplored Junior Shenzhen Tour 2019#5d559d5caff09e00000ec71c
        • Students were able to communicate and collaborate on the program through Baidu translation.
        • I thought I would need help from my English-speaking self because of the language barrier, but I didn’t need it.
        • The “language barrier” is nothing more than an assumption.

law

sequential order

  • 1: Developing superior IP
  • 2: Consideration of irreplaceability
  • 3: Building barriers through entitlements
    • They need to be in this order.
      • Patenting something that can be substituted will only circumvent it.
      • Even if it is irreplaceable, if there is no advantage, no one will use it.
      • First, superiority.

image - growth mimicry and Stagnant Imitation

Are there countries that Japan should use as references?

How to make the most of Galaga

  • Why i-mode was not successful in Europe
  • national isolation
    • The Intellectual Property of Japanese Culture
    • When you eat pacri sushi, you want to know the original sushi.

Kitty and Hatsune Miku

  • Intellectual property born in Japan
  • It’s worth it when it’s used.
    • Free Strategy
  • Local Kitty
    • Collaboration = creating value by allowing others to use it.

Strategies that Allow Imitation

  • It’s not imitation that’s bad.

  • What’s wrong is imitation without respect.

  • What is respect?

    • Tell them you imitated them.
    • pay money
    • return a favor (favour)
      • Making things more wonderful
      • Society develops
      • Giving back to society = pay it forward.

  • attribute value

future prediction

Watt steam engine

  • We didn’t build it from scratch.

  • Widespread because of the positive “economic rationality” of the improvements.

  • Qualcomm

  • Failure of smart phones

  • premature

  • But as a result, there was plenty of IP.

  • Shifting Strategies

  • Steve Jobs.

  • Blank CDs are selling better than the population.

  • Music has been copied.

  • →iPod

  • Sony, on the other hand, uses CCCD.

  • groupware has an organization and an individual joins it.

  • I think there will be a personal hub of software first, and then it will be connected after the fact.

  • nishio.iconI think Scrapbox (especially if you’ve created a personal project) is pretty close to that.

    • What is missing
    • Weak ability to cross projects
    • interest space
    • SPYSEE-like graphical display

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