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Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce. That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful. (mastodon.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Patents are either 14 or 20 years, depending on type. Copyright is absurdly long, but copyright also doesn't apply to drugs, inventions, recipes, game rules, mathematical formulae - mostly just creative works.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ok, 14 to 20 years on patents seems reasonable. I would still set copyright back to 30 years, since as you pointed out, it's really only affecting the public domain.