Scenario 2 : Everything on the web are freely available - No existing Intellectual Property

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The rationale behind intellectual property protection and copyright systems was to stimulate scientific research and creative works like writing, painting; Intellectual property protection is considered help people to protect what they have founded (ideas, science, music, books). But in this way further scientific research based on available results is inhibited and slowed down. Intellectual property is considered to help the owners of the idea’s and creative works, but does it really helps them to protect their property? <br? • A lot of times “patents are used to suppress innovation” [1]; companies buy patents from the original inventors to protect their current business. Although the original inventor gets paid something in such cases, patents are used in a wrong way here. Instead of promoting further development of their ideas, their ideas got stocked here.
• Third World people and poor people are suffering under this patent system