WIPO Copyright Treaty - Worldwide DMCA
Claus Färber
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Wed Aug 8 11:20:00 UTC 2001
Alessandro Rubini <rubini at gnu.org> schrieb/wrote:
> "intellectual property" is the term information owners use to
> spread the idea that owning information is a natural thing just
> like private property...
Interestingly, this way of thinking came from the French
Revolution and is the basis for Continental Europe's "right of
authorship" system, not for the Common Law copyright system.
Acutally, the only "intellectual property" is Continental Europe's
copyright (and maybe patents as a borderline case); everything
else referred to as IP such as trademarks, models, topographies,
... and Common Law copyright is just "commercial property" or even
better "commercial investment protection".
Claus
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