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Re: [ox-en] IPR/monopoly rights



Hi Graham and all!

Last month (28 days ago) Graham Seaman wrote:
I hate having discussions about patents and copyright where you get
sucked into using the term 'intellectual property rights', but could
never think of a good alternative.

Me too. In German the term is known as "Geistiges Eigentum" where
"geistig" has slightly different connotations than "intellectual".
It's horrible.

I was always a bit unhappy about rms's line that the reason saying
'intellectual property rights' is wrong is not only that it prejudges the
issue of 'property', but also that it lumps together things (patents and
copyright in particular) that have nothing in common. They obviously do
have something in common - they give people a legally enforced monopoly.
So, instead of talking about 'IPRs' I plan to use 'monopoly rights' as the
generic name. Is there any obvious flaw in that?

IMHO the term 'monopoly rights' lacks of its intended relation to
information goods. Otherwise I find the term correct.

Anyway, I wrote a short propaganda piece using it as an experiment:
http://wiki.hipatia.info/wiki/1.3.4/index.php?pagename=NoMonopolyRights

Good idea!

Please feel free to comment on it/change it! (it's my first try at using
a wiki ;-)

I added some small comments :-) (after finally finding a way to edit
these pages with an ancient Netscape 4.78 while drowning in cookies
:-/ ...)


						Mit Freien Grüßen

						Stefan

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