Re: [Patents] pooling patents, version 2

[<xdrudis@tinet.org>]

Maybe I'm already confused by the social engineering hack. 

I think what you "own" (by a legal artifact) is some privilege 
on an idea or a expression, not the idea. Maybe intellectual 
privilege and industrial privilege would be better. Of course 
inmaterial assets are very different from material assets 
(mainly because many people can use them at the same time, 
can't be used up, etc.). But given that we are talking about 
systems that artificially assign exclusivity on these inmaterial
assets, I wonder if calling it (artificial) "property" is so serious. 
Other may argue that property on material objects is also "artificial",
or that all law is artificial. As I said, you don't have to agree
on treating inmaterial objects as property to say "intellectual property". 

I think I'll simply say "authorship right (copyright)" or "patents"

Xavi Drudis Ferran
xdrudis@tinet.org