[Upd-discuss] 3 minutes documentary on Public Domain

[michael.davis@law.csuohio.edu]

Could you tell me what paper this is from? I ask because, contrary to the
quoted statement, anybody thoroughly familiar with this legal area would
tell you quite the opposite: copyright law and patent law are so similar
that it does not make sense to talk about them as if they are different,
and to do so betrays an ignorance of the subject matter.

Mickey Davis


> 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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