[Patents] UKPTO to extend IP cult to schools

[critto@poczta.wp.pl (Krzysztof Sobolewski)]

From:                   Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>
To:                     PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>, patents@aful.org
Subject:                Re: [Patents] UKPTO to extend IP cult to schools
Send reply to:          Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>
Date sent:              Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:58:22 +0200

> I can only agree with Hartmut.
> 
> However, another point is worth emphasizing in this document: Mr
> Murphy's statement "Intellectual property crime [...] can be linked to t=
he
> deadliest forms of organised crime."
> 
>   This timely illustrates a recent article by Philippe Queau (from
> UNESCO) in the Monde Diplomatique (in French ... but generally
> translated in many languages, though on paper only ...):
>       Nous sommes tous des cybercriminels
>      http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2001/06/UAEUQ/
>   by Philippe Uaéuq, Le Monde Diplomatique, page 3, Juin 2001.
> 
>   It begins by:
>    « RACISME, pédophilie, terrorisme, contrefaçon » ... que
> vient faire, au milieu de cet amalgame, la contrefaçon ?
> 
>    « RACISM, pédophilia, terrorism, IP infringement » ...  what is IP
> infringement doing in the midlle of this mixture ...

It's the most ugly propaganda since nazi propaganda and 
communist propaganda. And brainwashing children with it reminds 
me the worst times of PRL (People's Republic of Poland, that 
means: Poland enslaved by the communist "soviet-satellite" 
regime). When I used to go to school in 80s, it wasn't even so ugly 
(the regime's been falling). But my parents got the big dose of it 
(fortunately, they silently resisted, and I resisted, too -- we were 
the dissident family).

> 
>    Since Mr murphy is so interested in citizenship, he might first
> begin by having a proper scale for moral values.
>   If there is a form of "Intellectual property crime linked to the
> deadliest forms of organised crime", it is when pharmaceutical
> companies will hold on their intellectual property at the expense of
> the lives of millions of people who cannot pay for their patents.
> This is organized crime indeed.

Sure. Furthermore, those ugly companies prohibit any other 
company from competing with them. This is the crime: against 
humanity, against liberty, and against the market (what about 
establishment of a kind of a "court" to judge such crimes? Its 
sentences won't be  binding, but will set moral guidelines. If 
anyone's interested, we may join). This is the mercantilist 
preference of money above freedom.

>    But to call "deadly crime" a copyright infringement shows that Mr
> Murphy has no moral sense whatsoever, and certainly no qualification
> to state what should be taught to children.

Absolutely. It naked his "morality" -- using the most ugly (and 
idiotic, by the way) means to achieve the "end" -- to have the 
children brainwashed as the obedient citizens, who will obey any 
law, regardless if it's "democratic" or, by contrast "nazi-like" law.
It doesn't matter here, anyway: he's a kind of a child-propagandist. 
This shows us, that we may not rely on public schools to teach our 
children. 

>    Though this really not important ... even children are smart enough t=
o
> see through the outrageous, irresponsible statements of Mr. Murphy.

Yes, when I was a kid (many, many years ago...), I quietly laughed 
(it was better not to laugh loudly at some things, esp. at the times 
of Martial Law, 1981-1983) at the commie propaganda. While it's a 
fact that I knew it's a kibosh, it was a bit funny (in a silly way), too, 
and thus not "serious".

>   BTW... this statement was made in a speech to the publisher's
> association, in April.  As we all know, copyright is there to protect
> publishers, not authors.

Of course. It's enough to take a glare at American "copyright" 
regulations, established to enslave and expropertiate a musician, 
which, by default (regardless of the deal signed with publisher) is 
stripped off his rights to use, copy, etc. *his/her own works*.
And they call it "capitalism" -- it is NOT "capitalism". It's just the 
corporate mercantilism. It's a form of a feudal system. The real 
capitalism depends on the *free* market, and the *free* deals, 
without anything established by default.

     Yours in Liberty and In Disregard to Tyrannies,
         Critto

PS. "(...)For I have sworn at the Altar of God, the eternal hostility 
towards any forms of enslavement of the Human mind(...)"-- Th. 
Jefferson

PS.1 Copyright is NOT a wrong idea; but it must be made useful to authors,=
 and
        fair use exceptions must be broad, to not stop the                    
    
        development of art, science, software, and so.

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