Odp: [Patents] PATNEWS: Software copyrights as threatening as softwarepatents?

[Jozef Halbersztadt halber@timsi.com.pl]

>   Since any
> sui-generis system will find it hard to create a better mechanism for
> structurally disclosing new functionality than using patent specifications
> and claims, the only real motivation for a sui-generis system is to
shorten
> the monopoly time period.  If so, just propose that for software patents,
> instead of having to create a whole new IP system and bureaucracy (or the
> alternative, propose that maintenance fees be raised).
>

Greg, you has spoken on these pages against Manifesto 1994.
>From many reasons but mainly because: foreseen by you problems with
government agencies.

I do think that your opinion on the initiative is totally wrong. The
Samuelson/Davis/Kapor/Reichman Manifesto is moderate about government
involvement. It is weaker as in the contemporary patent system.

But their proposal is also a solution to problems with copyright.
You don't like long readings. Still, because the problems with copyright
occupy you so much I have a text to you.
http://hometown.aol.com/paleymark/ModelAct.htm

The model Software Act is written with help of Manifesto as a supplement to
the US Patent Act. And it replaces main body of computer copyright. You
should like it.

Take notice that in the Software Act composed from words "patent claim" is
replaced with a medium that is more appropriated to designers of the
technology, the code.

Jozef Halbersztadt