[Upd-discuss] intellectual property disadvantage in economic terms

[Mashilamani Sambasivam]

Hello,
  What I meant by 'intellectual property' is knowledge
created by a person, so what I meant was 
all-rights-reserved-copyright and patents.

  I did not include trademark when I talk
about intellectual property. Suppose some
guy X does hard work and establishes a name
for himself, in my opinion, it would be
wrong for another
person Y to pass off his work as X's just
to sell cos it causes people to trust 
him more than his due, and builds/disreputes
X's reputation. I would say corporate entities 
are similar to that case in trademark.

Again, I have **NOT** given much thought to
trademark issues yet.
These are my intial thoughts, 
it might be much more complicated than that.

Anyway, exclunding trademark as intellectual
property, if you have time, I would like
your views on the slides.

Thanks,
Masi

--- "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

>       I prepared some slides which are both
>     anti-intellectual property as well 
>     anti-corporation.
> 
> I think it is simplistic to be either for, or
> against, "intellectual
> property".  These different laws are different
> issues.  For instance,
> consider trademarks.  Trademark law is one of the
> laws called
> "intellectual property".  I think it is very useful
> that companies
> have labels which their competitors can't use.  I
> would criticize some
> details in trademark law, but I support the basic
> idea.  How about you?
> 
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