[Upd-discuss] Did You Say "Intellectual Property"? It's,a Seductive Mirage by Richard M. Stallman

[Michael Hart]

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Lars Aronsson wrote:

> Richard Stallman wrote:
>> Every human activity requires some intellectual effort, but in regard
>> to trademark law, that effort is incidental.
>
> In general, I don't think "property" is related to "effort", so in any
> case "intellectual property" would not be related to "intellectual
> effort".  I guess one definition of property could be the restriction
> of the freedom of others (than the owner).  And copyright, trademarks
> and patents would seem to have this in common.

Different countries have different legal considerations as to how
"effort" or "sweat of the brow" counts towards things, especially
as it counts towards copyrights.

mh