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

[Seth Johnson]

Hmmm . . .

But you know the French system is very different. :-)

The American system doesn't really have moral rights, so lumping
that together with copyright isn't a part of the picture for us. 
It really does just allude to the language that essentially says
some rights have been granted exclusively, the Constitutional
clause in question stating that this is a power of Congress.

I like professors who use the term "exclusive rights" -- I don't
feel I have to plow through misconceptions and can talk about
possibilities and options.  Though it might be that I might have
some difficulty with a French professor!  :-)


Seth



Jean-Baptiste Soufron wrote:
> 
> I do agree and I want to add that the term "exclusive rights" is
> intensively used by Legal Professors, especially French ones since it
> regroups copyright and "droit d'auteur" much better than the term
> "intellectual property".
> 
> Most French authors use the term "intellectual property" because that is
> the name of our Code of intellectual property, but not when speaking
> about its signification.
> 
> Richard M. Stallman wrote:
> > The term "exclusive rights" avoids the bias of the term "intellectual
> > property", but shares its confusion.  It focuses attention on the
> > _form_ which is common to laws such as copyright, patents, and
> > trademarks, and away from their _substance_, in which they are
> > completely different.  This is not conducive to clear thinking about
> > any one of these laws.
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