Chapter 1741 Silent change, turning private into public
In fact, it is not that Chateau has not thought about innovating the patent system, but this kind of thing is simply not something he can do alone.
You must know that Netheril's patents are compulsorily charged. Regardless of whether you use them or not, as long as someone registers the patent, the Arcane Federation will directly deduct money (from the Mage Tower organization) unless you withdraw from the Arcane Federation.
However, the Arcane Federation is also one of the consensuses of all spellcasters in Netheril. Leaving aside individual spellcasters, all mage tower organizations join the Arcane Federation by default.
It's not difficult to quit, but once you quit, it's basically equivalent to going against all Nese mages. Basically, no one with normal sense will take the initiative to quit.
Once the new patent law takes effect, it is almost foreseeable that a large number of new patents will be generated, and as time goes by, the number of new patents will only increase.
Although this can largely promote the popularization and further development of magic, but——
For the ordinary Mage Tower organization, this is almost no less than a nightmare!
On the contrary, the more powerful the Mage Tower organization is, the more it can benefit from the new patent law, such as the Seven Towers. It can be said that once the new patent law is implemented, the Seven Towers will be the biggest winner.
If the mandatory fees in the patent law are changed to usage fees, what will happen?
First of all, registering a patent is tantamount to disclosing relevant information, and the vast majority of registered new spells are for personal use and are difficult to directly translate into commercial benefits.
Since it is for personal use, how will the patent owner know as long as they don't tell anyone?
And if the Austrian Law Federation is allowed to monitor, not to mention potential privacy leaks, the cost of monitoring is the most realistic obstacle.
Who will pay for this part of the money? The patent owner? It is not that easy to monitor any record of personal private use, even if it is done by God.
If we count on the Austrian-French Federation to do it, I'm afraid the patent revenue won't be as much as the cost of a high-intensity detection!
And if no revenue can be generated, who would be willing to disclose information for free?
Therefore, in the past, in order to protect the interests of patent registrants, there was a theory of mandatory fees.
However, if this charging method is to be used for all patent projects, it is obviously inappropriate. For example, the communication device design plan that Xia Duo wants to register can easily be converted into commercial benefits.
And market behavior is easy to investigate, so it would be too harsh if there were mandatory fees.
But there is a lot of work to be done on which patents are subject to compulsory fees and which patents are subject to usage fees.
Mage Tower organizations that have the opportunity to participate in the formulation of new patent laws will inevitably pursue their own interests. For example, Seven Towers, when they come, it is undoubtedly most beneficial for them to impose mandatory fees for all patents.
Although this has hindered the development and popularization of magic to a certain extent, the Seven Towers themselves have already occupied an almost absolutely dominant position. Instead of letting the technological explosion occur in places other than the Seven Towers, they might rather choose not to happen.
Other Mage Tower organizations, the larger ones, may seek to establish a more complete patent system, and then use this system to rapidly grow themselves, reaching a level with the Seven Towers, or at least close to it.
For some smaller organizations, most of them only have immediate interests in their eyes. At the same time, both their comprehensive strength and innovation ability are very weak. No matter what kind of patent it is, it is most beneficial to them not to spend money.
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Therefore, as long as they have the opportunity to influence the formulation of the patent system, they will almost certainly do so in this direction.
For Shado, if he was not a Grand Arcanist, or even if he was a Grand Arcanist but had many vassals, he would probably be torn between improving the system and spending as little money as possible.
In reality, he does not have many vassals, so he is more inclined to improve the system and use this system to quickly strengthen himself and narrow the gap with the Seven Towers.
But this kind of thing is not his alone to have the final say, and Qita's attitude cannot be circumvented at all.
Therefore, when Iolum mentioned that he wanted to "innovate the existing patent system", Shado didn't believe it in his heart. It wasn't that he didn't believe in Iolum's determination, but that he didn't believe in the existence of the Seven Towers.
This reality.
Of course, there are many enlightened people within the Seven Towers, but as the current rulers, I am afraid that conservatism is the majority!
Xia Duo knew very well that for rulers, maintaining the status quo is the most secure way to rule. Once changes occur, whether good or bad, they will inevitably impact the existing ruling order.
There may be many enlightened people in the Seven Towers, but as members of the collective, they will inevitably be affected by the collective will and collective interests, and be forced to choose to be conservative.
In a sense, when the Seven Towers began to grow, it was inevitable to become conservative.
Regarding Xia Duo's doubts and worries, Iolum seemed quite calm, "Of course the order reform cannot be completed all at once. What I mean is——
"Use the dispute between you and Cross's personal interests to cover up the silent changes to the new patent law. This time, as long as you can force the other party to make concessions and establish a precedent, then similar incidents in the future can be dealt with accordingly.
"This is an excellent opportunity. Cross created a Green Tower Alliance in the south. This in itself is nothing, but he also tried to integrate the internal territories of the alliance into a whole, although he temporarily bypassed it through some indirect means.
The Treaty of Severington, but it always violated the unspoken rules of territorial independence.
"This is difficult for both Seven Towers and others to accept. Therefore, as long as you raise objections, it is almost impossible for others to object. They may be waiting for someone to come forward at this moment!"
Iolum said it in detail. At the same time, Chateau is not a political novice. Now that Cross has incurred public outrage, he has the opportunity to turn "private grudges" into "public criticism."
Among them, the change to new patents is just a trivial episode, and even the word "patent" may not appear in the next joint meeting of the Grand Arcanists.
The so-called "moisturizing things silently" is probably like this.
This is indeed a rare opportunity!
If it were not Cross, but someone else, Shado could almost imagine that the group of great arcanists would either be in conflict with each other, be at odds with each other, or be making a fuss, and it was unlikely that they would unanimously oppose anything.
Even if he made a series of connections in private, such as asking Cliff, Jenna, Byron, Brod and others to jointly propose, he would gain the upper hand.
But other people may also choose to remain neutral and abstain in order to maintain the so-called "harmony" or maintain the so-called "fight without breaking up" situation, but end up standing against Xia Duo.
This is very difficult to deal with, and basically in the end all that is left is endless wrangling, or simply resorting to force.
No matter what happens, it is not what Xia Duo wants to see.