Just a few days ago I was reading two of the 5 books in the
Isaac Asimov's "Robot Series". This reading led me to
several reflections. The first of these two books talk about what
we normally know as science fiction. That is, a society in the
future with many technological advances that we already have in our
lives today or that we have clearly identified as part of what we
expect is to be our future. The second book, "The Naked
Sun", relates an interesting story about a planet far from the
Earth in which the society has evolved in such a way that men and
machines have a symbiotic relationship that allows a highly evolved
society, although with some clearly identifiable problems.
What does these reflections bring to me? For many years we have
talked about intellectual property as one of the legal tools we
have in order to, in the one hand, protect creators, innovators and
authors from illegitimate use by third parties, and in the other
hand, to encourage innovation
