From seth.johnson@Realmeasures.dyndns.org  Tue Jul 31 00:28:14 2001
From: seth.johnson@Realmeasures.dyndns.org (Seth Johnson)
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 19:28:14 -0400
Subject: [Patents] WIPO ecommerce conference 2001-09-19..21 Geneva
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Yup.  That's probably why he was there.  It's a text about software as
intellectual property, defining a distinction between program behavior
that is utilitarian and program behavior that is expressive, and a whole
lot of more other principles along the same lines.  Haven't read it in
detail.  Pilch would probably get a whole lot more out of reading it
than I would.

Seth Johnson

Seth Johnson wrote:
> 
> It wasn't hard to find him.  Check out:
> 
> http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/davis/davis.htm
> 
> He's got a postscript file of a paper he wrote on some kind of new idea
> of intellectual property that might be salient.  I'm accessing it as I
> type this:
> 
> http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/davis/cacm96.ps



