Copyrights, Patents, And Trademarks Fade To The 100th Monkey Syndrome

How Can There Be Intellectual Ownership?

You have probably heard about the 100th Monkey Syndrome? It's happened many times where a few monkeys in a remote area learn something new that has never been done before by other monkeys.

And when this new action has been practiced enough times, suddenly, other monkeys- even in completely different parts of the world- begin doing what was learned by those few monkeys. And they've never even seen it done before! So where did they get the idea to do that action from?

The whole idea about copyrights, patenting and trademarks in the future will likely change due to this phenomena called the 100th Monkey Syndrome. Because if you go through history, you can see that very frequently in two or more parts of the world, the same ideas were invented, created, or discovered within the same era of time.

You see that quite often in science where teams in different parts of the world basically make very similar or the same discovery at around the same time. We should simply understand that it is the universe at work. That's natural. If we realize that, we couldn't or just wouldn't really feel that our ideas belong to ourselves. Now that's a concept that still may have people shaking their heads.

So if your ideas don't belong to you, then how do you copyright them or patent them or trademark a symbol that you got out of thin air?

Companies who currently thrive on patents and trademarks will fight this concept to the death. That's because we are now in the present, a world that functions "well" with patents and trademarks.

But we are talking about the future, where we are evolving towards.

 

Let's Explore An Idea That's New To The Western World

We all get ideas. How do we get them? They come to us, don't they. Or do we make these ideas ourselves?

So we can ask ourselves, "Where do these ideas come from?", because we don't really produce them ourselves. And if you understand a little bit about quantum physics, you could say that ideas come from the energy field all around us. If that's the case, then how can ideas belong to us? That must mean that the 100th Monkey Syndrome applies to all of us.

Ideas are just energy. And energy is about flow. Energy moves in, and energy moves out. When we hold onto energy in the human body it can create a blockage, and then an illness develops.

Perhaps you can see where this is going, because in a similar way, obtaining a copyright, patent, or trademark is a way of holding on to energy and saying, "This is mine, and you can't use it! I came up with it." In the end, this stifles the idea, the energy, from freely flowing.

 

Happily Sharing Ideas In The Future Business World

We should be happy to be sharing those ideas with other people, because the more people who have good ideas the better. And that makes more ideas happen quicker! But if it belongs to only one person, then that's just a way of slowing the idea down.

If you think about what an idea is, then it usually falls under one of two categories:

1) An idea is a good idea, a new idea, a fresh approach.

2) An idea is an advancement on a previous idea (ie: product, service, etc.).

Seeing as how both of these categories are very positive, don't you believe that the more people who receive an idea- the better, and the more people who share the idea- the better?

So sharing and exchanging ideas will be much more in line with the future, as this will help advancements to be made in a much timelier manner. And these advancements will benefit us all, not just a select few. Then we are using the 100th Monkey Syndrome more and more. It no longer is a phenomena.

 

What About Patents?

Overall when we look at history, a general patent is something new. At the moment people have to pay for it, but as it becomes more and more popular, it becomes cheaper and cheaper, like bread. There were times, not so long ago, when people would be killing for bread in Russia every day. And even in this last century, for many people, having enough bread on the table was a struggle. But now bread is so cheap.

This story parallels every industry across the board. You can see with software, things were more expensive before. But now, information technology is at its peak and already a lot of stuff is being produced for free as Freeware and some for a small exchange as Shareware.

This has been evident with small software programs to large operating systems, such as Linux. The Linux platforms and the open office software programs have been responsible for massive amounts of advancements by computer scientists who prefer more adaptable systems.

So in the future it will be the same. Things will start off expensive and then they will get cheaper. There's always something new coming, which will be more exclusive at the beginning.

Expensive just means exclusive. With the 100th Monkey Syndrome being applied, periods of exclusivity will be shorter than we know it today.

Copyrights, patents, and trademarks are still at their height today, yet we should begin to see this trend cool off in the coming decade. A natural transition will occur into a more sharing environment, as these ideas will be seen more as collective information and owned by everybody. That is the future…