Your brilliant Kickstarter idea could be on sale in China before you’ve even finished funding it.
https://qz.com/771727/chinas-factories-in-shenzhen-can-copy-products-at-breakneck-speed-and-its-time-for-the-rest-of-the-world-to-get-over-it/
New methods for copy-write and patents are needed at the local level. Production and name value is the strongest hold on intellectual property.for this new age of invention.
Why in such an imaginative area as Sonoma County is there no new method for securing intellectual property and producing locally?
Buy your new item from the profit mongers or buy from someone heavily investing in community?
Beware the False Profit