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

[Richard M. Stallman]

    The problem with the phrase "exclusive rights" is that intellectual  
    property rights are not always exclusive.  Sometimes they are non- 
    exclusive rights on remuneration.

This would be a problem in a situation where the scope of what you
want to discuss is precisely that of "intellectual property".  But
that is rare--most of the time, when people talk about "intellectual
property", it is because they have heard that term so much, not
because its meaning is right for what they want to say.

And suppose that you're having a discussion where you argue for a
non-exclusive remuneration right instead of an exclusive right.  It
would not be hard to switch from the term "intellectual property" to
the term "exclusive rights" as a first step.  True, their meanings
would not be identical, they don't slice things up the same way.
But that is not an impediment.