[Ecommerce] Re: [Hague-jur-commercial-law] Contracts that restrain competition or impede the transfer of technology

[Jeff Williams]

Richard and all,

 I think your advocating the other extreme here in your final remark.
Rather we need to "Question" what is legitimate "Intellectual property"
and what is not.

Richard Stallman wrote:

> Use of the term "intellectual property" encourages people to lump
> together disparate laws such as copyrights and patents.  Not only the
> public, but even legislators, are led astray, as witness the recent
> disastrous "intellectual property enforcement" directive in the EU.
>
> We have got to stop conceding this first fudamental point and start
> criticizing the term "intellectual property" wherever we see it.
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Regards,

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