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

[James Love]

The problem with the phrase "exclusive rights" is that intellectual  
property rights are not always exclusive.  Sometimes they are non- 
exclusive rights on remuneration.   Indeed, we sometimes prefer the  
latter.  Sometimes we don't.  Jamie


On Oct 21, 2005, at 12:49 AM, Richard M. Stallman wrote:

>     I have just found that "exclusive rights" enables me to transform
>     discussions.  Even the behavior of those who continue to insist
>     on using the term "intellectual property" very quickly becomes
>     self-evidently spurious.
>
> I think you're saying that if you start by substituting the term
> "exclusive rights" for "intellectual property", this makes it easy to
> proceed subsequently to abandon the generalization of "exclusive
> rights" for discussion of specific laws.  Am I right in understanding
> it that way?
>
> If the method regularly achieves that goal, then it sounds good to me.
> It would be interesting for others to try it in discussions, and
> report on their results.
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