Re: [Patents] Washington Times: Internet Patents Divide Industry

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

On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 19:38, Hartmut Pilch wrote:
> > Telling copyright covered works are " intellectual properties" in the
> > sense of classical property will simply give invincible weapons to
> > people that try to extend the copyright lifetime to the infinite.
> 
> Only if you believe that material property is sacrosanct and
> unconditional.

The problem is not what I believe, but what our west world is based on.
We live in countries where material property IS sacrosanct, and you have
to take that in account.
It is what the WIPO has based it's campaign on, and I think it is not a
coincidence that this shift toward an increase in private property has
happened right when east countries fell down and real communism
deceased.

> > Once that battle is won they will use the fact that some form of
> > intellectual exclusive rights are real property rights to enforce the
> > same idea into the patent system.
> 
> The problem is to get the idea of sacrosanticity of all kinds of
> "property" out of people's head.

This is another battle.

> Whether exclusive control of some kind of ressource is socially
> beneficial requires careful consideration in any case.

When we will have a food replicator a la Star Trek, then it will be the
moment to fight on this plane.

Simo.

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