[WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] [A2k] Re: [Wsis-pct] IP Justice Comment to IGF on Top Policy Issues forAthens

[Bernard Lang]

* Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, le 05-04-06, a =E9crit:
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>       "Technological Protection Measures" is a pretty "neutral"
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> "Technological" and "measure" are neutral, but "protection" is not;
> it's one of the terms we should decline to apply to describe what
> copyright does.
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> I sometimes call them "technological restriction measures".
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well ...  I try not to change what people are used to read, but to
just be more accurate.


So, in writing or speaking, I do keep the word "protection", but I
apply it to the copyrights themselves, not to the copyrighted work.

The abuse is this linguistic short-circuit that talks about protecting
the work ...  but maybe they mean protective custody.  :-(

I objet "protecting a work"
I use "protecting the copyrights on a work"

   and protecting copyrights is indeed a restriction on the rights of
   others.

Bernard



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