[A2k] IPBlog (Tom Giovanetti): The Big IP Skeptic Lovefest Is Coming

[Rishab Aiyer Ghosh]

what would be REALLY interesting: an IPR conference which banned any and
all aid from products developed without IP rights, through e.g. academic
research, open collaboration, traditional knowledge, non-patented
inventions, etc. i'd love to see that. but i couldn't, because i couldn't
see without my contact lenses (drawing on academic optical research),
listen via a international telephone (communications satellite non-patented
by clarke) or watch a web conference (based on non-patented tcp/ip, http,
collaboratively developed technologies).

all these would be impossible if IPR were the only way to develop and
distribute technologies.
-rishab

At 21:34 05/04/2006, James Love wrote:
 >>>What would REALLY be interesting would be an A2K conference which
>>>banned any and all aid from products developed through property
>>>rights. I'd love to see that. But I couldn't, because I couldn't see
>>>without my contact lenses, and I couldn't listen via telephone or
>>>watch a webconference. Both would be impossible if all products of
>>>intellectual property were banned.