[Upd-discuss] 3 minutes documentary on Public Domain

[michael.davis@law.csuohio.edu]

Richard:

This last post is errant nonsesne. Until you were told (mistakenly) that
you needed copyright protection to assert ownership over certain rights to
GNU-related projects, you sang a very differenet tune. IP in its
conventional legal sense is generally harmful. It is a product of a very
outmnoded socio-political system which is no longer central to our present
lives. There are  better and more sensible mechanisms to achieve the goals
of so-called IP in today's world.

You have also asserted recently that patents and copyrights (and other IP
constructs) have little in common and should not be lumped together. That
is the same kind of errant nonsesne. I suspect that, too, is a product of
your sense that you need copyright for GNU but perhaps not  patent. That
kind of rationalisation is fine psychologically I suppose but not
analytically.

I find it very distressing that these kinds of personal projects have
begun to interfere with UPD.


Mickey Davis
>     I suppose this is a kind of facts-on-the-ground demonstration of why
>     so-called IP is socially harmful,
>
> It's an extreme generalization to say that "IP" is harmful, or beneficial,
> or anything.  It covers so much territory.  Some parts of it certainly are
> harmful.
>
> See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml.
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