[Upd-discuss] Copyright impact in Developing Countries

[Richard Stallman]

It is a grave mistake to use the term "intellectual property",
because doing so lumps together unrelated laws.

Patent law and copyright law are almost completely different, and
should be treated as two separate topics.  Trademark law is totally
different from those two, and should be treated as a separate topic.
To lump these topics together is a recipe for confusion.

Ms Giraudo's article is about copyright law -- plus one paragraph
about patent law which doesn't relate to the rest.  Aside from that
paragraph, it makes sense as an article about copyright.  But every
time it uses the term "intellectual property", it lumps in other
unrelated laws and mixes up unrelated topics.

Replacing the term "intellectual property" with "copyright", and
deleting the one extra paragraph, would make the article coherent.

See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html for more explanation.


"Protection" is also a propaganda term in the context of copyright --
see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html for explanation.