Re: [Patents] Copyright on ideas, procedures, methods of operation ormathematical concepts

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

Christian Beauprez wrote:
> 
>  Indeed copyright may require reform, again due to selective interpretation
> rather than the principals on which it was established. I am sure that your
> work in this area will help this reform. I suppose what I was trying to say
> in essence is that it is far better to attempt to reform copyright as
> authors than further distort this protection by allowing people to claim
> concepts in themselves as inventions, which I know we can both agree on.

:-)

I stress the public interest in exclusive rights policy.  I would say, don't
forget that both sides of the authors vs. intermediaries/publishers divide
tend to have some similar misconceptions about the nature of copyright,
seeing it according to their own interests.


Seth

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