Re: [Patents] Intellectual property (was European Consitution)

[Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org>]

I personally always use the terms used in the American Constitution:
exclusive rights.

Seth Johnson

Gérald Sédrati-Dinet wrote:
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> Simo Sorce wrote:
> | On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 08:36, Jozef Halbersztadt wrote:
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> |>The European Convention is finalising its work on the constitution.
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> | Inserting the words: "Intellectual Property", in a Constitution is very
> | dangerous imho!
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> | I generally speak of intellectual paternity, as I think moral rights are
> | to be granted and preserved, but talking of property is simply bad.
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> I'm about to prepare an article about the so-called "intellectual
> property". Having read RMS' opinion -- critizizing this catch-all term,
> predudging the dealing area --, I completly share RMS' opinion and the
> views exposed in this list...
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> I agree with Jozef and Simo that "intellectual property" term should
> never been authorized in an official convention.
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> IMHO, this is a convenient term only for those that wanna keep their
> dominating position over the market and the society. In the marxist
> terminology, capitalism is based upon property. I think that the term
> "intellectual property" is just a way to spread a well-known concept for
> those who have plenty acces to material property. But stuffs that
> underlying "intelelctual property" in legal texts, as in this proposed
> constitution, deals more with "access" than with "property". The unsaid
> goal is the control of access.
> 
> The proposed replacements ("intellectual production" and "intellectual
> paternity") are convenient to keep the acronym IP[R]? But why not
> calling dog a dog (sorry for my poor english, this is a litteral
> transation of a french expression, hope the meaning is preserved) ? A
> constitution has to be designed for the sake of citizen. So in article
> II-17-2 "Intellectual property shall be protected" should be replaced by
> "Access to intellectual matter shall be granted"
> 
> I'd be very happy if some of you wanna talk about this subject. Maybe
> it's a little bit off-topic for a list about patents, so feel free to
> answer to my personal address...
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