Re: [Patents] EuroParl-ordered study to be presented in Paris

[Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>]

>Actually the present europarl study says, on the contrary, that copyright
>is usually quite effective even for harvesting returns from ideas

Maybe effective.  But it is also illegal under European copyright
conventions.  As would be contracts using copyright to protect ideas.
Illegal.  And I question even the effectiveness, especially from any
parliamentary study.  It is the incompetence of parliaments on both
sides of the Atlantic that has caused twenty years of messes with
software copyright.  The American's shouldn't have done it in the 1980s,
and the European shouldn't have copied the American illogic of software
copyright in the 1990s.

Greg Aharonian