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- From: Stefano Maffulli <stef@zoomata.com>
- To: patents@aful.org
- Subject: Re: [Patents] Even worse abuses with copyright
- Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 10:16:12 +0200
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 02:32, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> For all the ancedotal/hallucinogenic complaints about software patents
> stopping new software development, here is an example of even worse
> abuses with copyright:
Funny story, thanks for the info. But of course it is meaningless for
what we are discussing here. It would have been better for the society
if the German theater, instead of abusing of the will of the author,
wrote a different piece with women on stage instead, and called it
something else. That is the point of copyright.
If Beckett had the possibility to patent the absurdist ideas of "Waiting
for Godot" no other play would have been possible. Any reinterpretation
could have fallen under the patent, giving the author the possibility to
stop evolution.
regards
stef
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