[Upd-discuss] 3 minutes documentary on Public Domain

[Yannick Delbecque]

On August 13, 2005 10:40, Richard M. Stallman wrote:
>  Copyright law, patent law, and trademark law are so
> different I don't think it even makes sense to talk about them
> together.

While you give in your paper some examples of confusion caused by using 
the "intellectual property" expression, I belive that to clarify the 
problem it would help to have a lot more of them, event collect them on 
a public page or document somewhere. In fact, such a pool of examples 
should even be interesting for those who do not feel this is an 
important issue, since they will at least agree that it is better not 
to propagate misconceptions and errors about copyright, patents or 
trademarks than to let them grow in number because of the lack of 
criticism. 

A similar compilation was made in reaction to the lack of a precise 
definition of "non-commercial" in the creative commons licences using 
such clauses: 
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/NonCommercial_use_cases

Such a compilation is quite helpful (the main issue in that case is to 
distinguish between "for profit" and "not for money"), even for those 
who like me belive that such clauses should not be used.

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