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- From: Serge Marelli <serge.marelli@linux.lu>
- To: Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>
- Cc: Patent Forum <patents@aful.org>, Christian Beauprez <beauprez@beauprez.fsnet.co.uk>, FSF Europe <team@fsfeurope.org>, Free Skylarov UK Board <free-sklyarov-uk@xenoclast.org>
- Subject: Re: [Patents] You have rights.. Software Patents are Illegal
- Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 18:30:28 +0200
- Organization: LiLux a.s.b.l.
On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 18:27, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
(...)
> So saying software is literary under Berne means very little since it
> takes you back immediately to software copyright, which has been an
> intellectual disaster for thirty years. Why? Most national and regional
> copyright treaties quite clearly state that copyright protection only
> applies to expression - there is no copyright for ideas, processes, and
> methods (anything functional).
Which is fine, you can't monopolise ideas.
Some (patent lawyers) would like that, but that's exactly what we are
opposed to.
Leave Berne alone, leave ideas out of patent or copyright.
Noone has the monopoly to an idea. One may have the exclusivity to one
expression of an idea (i.e. the litterary expression, the litterary
work) but no monopoly on the idea itself.
Serge
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