I mean I personally feel like almost all software is math and anything that isn’t frontend isn’t legally copyrightable or patentable. But the courts disagree with my interpretation. And if it were up to me all copyright and patents would have exponentially increasing fees on an annual basis to maintain, but thatd require a change is statutes. I think the jury is still out on your interpretation though, and I suspect the courts will fall in line with whatever the largest rights holders want.

effort and cost should be accounted for, reasonable licensing fees should go in the patent. Loss of lives and loss of quality of life should be considered. The only goal on the other end of the equation should be to encourage people sufficiently to not keep their invention secret.

We should also have a fund for particularly tricky inventions and copyrights that would greatly benefit mankind.

Say, someone or some institution writes a good school book. We can just buy the book for whatever we think is reasonable. If they want to publish the same book the next year with the chapters shuffled around they could be entitled to a tiny fraction of the previous sum or it could be denied for being spam. If this bankrupts the company is of very little interest.