Re: [Patents] GregNews: A history of artistic innovation as artistic invention

[Simo Sorce <simo.sorce@xsec.it>]

On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 20:46, Hartmut Pilch wrote:
> >From Greg's PatNews:
> 
> !20030427  A history of artistic innovation as artistic invention
> 
>      As part of my new Web site on the global patenting of entertainment
> and art, I have prepared a lengthy (if not the longest) global chronology
> of artistic inventions over the last 4000 years. I argue that innovation
> is invention, and when properly described, patentable.  The chronology is
> available at:
> 
>             www.patenting-art.com/history/histor-e.htm

The list is freighting at best ...

> ---------------------------
> 
> Indeed an informative list which again shows that the distinction
> "functional vs esthetic", which seems to be what current EPO software
> patent evangelists like Dai Rees mean by "technical vs untechnical", is
> also fragile and can be withered away any time if there is a strong
> commercial interest in broad monopolies on what Art 52 EPC calls
> "esthetic creations". 

well, I think it is clear to everybody, proswpat people look at their
own private interests and not at the consequences of their proposal on
the society and macro-economy.

Simo.

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