Welcome to our Poster Campaign Guestbook! This is where you can follow the entries to our “Imagine if…” campaign.
If you’d like to enter all you need to do is think about what the world would be like if everything was patented, and then complete the sentence “Imagine if…”. You can submit your idea through the form on the left-hand side bar, and use the ’share’ button below it to share your submission as a tweet, a Facebook status, or update on any of your favourite social networking sites.
We’ll consider all these ideas and chose one to inspire the next campaign poster, to be released in early January.
Imagine if… The formula for paper was patented – no tissue paper, no paper towel, no recycled paper, and the list could go on…
…there was no secret science.
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… we needed permission to use a paper clip more than once.
Einstein stayed in a patent office
My taxes my content
There is no freedom without freedom to innovate!
Imagine if when your taxes paid to write code then you could use that code
Imagine if you could use the research paid for by your taxes
poor entrepreneurs could innovate without fear of being sued by multinationals
the International Standards Organisation required standards to be open
the cure to the AIDS virus was patented on discovery…
open science amongst African scientists was not science fiction…
..language was patented and couldn’t evolve