[Upd-discuss] 3 minutes documentary on Public Domain

[Richard M. Stallman]

	Trademark law's necessity / function I do not think impinges on the 
    public domain - though it's current application does.. As such, I do not 
    consider it a part of IP when I use the term.

Then I suggest avoiding the term, because you're not using it in the
normal sense.

    >I also think that a limited copyright system for some kinds of works
    >could be a beneficial system, as it was in the past.
    >  
    >
	Excellent..
	Why do you favor this historic model over any other?

It worked well enough in the past, before digital technology gave us
new capabilities that copyright now serves to deny us.  It is worth
trying to adapt it.

	Do you think it would be able to be relevant to current situations 
    and to not naturally evolve into it's current form yet again?

If we can overcome the political power of the publishers enough to
greatly reduce the scope of copyright, afterward we will be stronger
and they weaker, so we should be able to hold them in check.