Shouldn't we get rid of the SOCIALISTIC trademark protections?

Question

And allow that good old free enterprise gives those fake Gucci bags, Nike shoes ect. ? And face it cons, this government bureaucracy is stifling competition.

Answer 1

Sure. Why don't we get rid of the socialist Dept. of Sanitation and Police Department while at it. I always thought I should pay for protection and sewage removal at for-profit prices!

Answer 2

It's not capitalism if they're using someone's name. The government is not stopping anyone from selling purses or shoes. What the government is trying to stop is using someone using someone else's trademark, or name, to sell their purses or shoes. It's not really competition when you claim to sell a product-that isn't really that product-at 1/10th the price, is it? Surely you don't think so.

It's not socialistic at all to protect someone from having their product or business reputation flushed down the toilet by knockoffs. They have a right to be fairly treated in the marketplace, and allowing people to sell items with their name and/or trademark on them, particularly when you're not getting any of the cut, is not fair treatment, and anti-capitalist.

Answer 3

Trademarks? No, trademarks are just part of doing honest business. You need to be able to have some confidence that something you're buying is what it says it is, and from whom it says it is. Otherwise, for instance, you couldn't boycot the goods of a corporation doing something you considered heinous, as they could just slap the label of a nice small buisness you aprove of on it.

Copyright, law, OTOH, is a little out of hand.

Answer 4

Trademarks protect the private property designed by someone.

Socialists don't believe in private property.

Your argument doesn't make any sense. Again, try taking a basic economics course.

Answer 5

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