No doubt, Franklin would approve of open source and would likely side with critics of both software patents and copyright legislation run amuck.

毫无疑问，富兰克林会赞成开放源码，很可能会激烈地反对软件专利和版权法规。

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Intellectual property standards, especially patents and copyright, had negative effects or might have negative effects on the public domain.

知识产权标准，特别是专利和版权对于公有领域有负面或可能有负面影响。

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The code could even be developed completely differently and could look similar. So even in copyright, which is much much better than patents, it can get nasty.

为了实现一个相似的功能，编写的代码可能各有相似，也可能截然不同，所以版权比专利来的更有效。

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Intellectual property - such as patents, and copyright - is another bugbear.

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Although it would have made even more when instead of design patents everyone asserted trademark and copyright.

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The government will propose deleting section 52 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 - which could have some major implications.

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