Deirdre Harvey wrote:
You aren't expressing any doubts about Intellectual Property Law and
Copyright. Most of the rest of the contributors to the thread are
expressing doubts. YOu are alone in your dogmatic certainty, not your
doubt.
I think the evidence justifies the abolition of copyright.
It is not a new position for me. see: The Against Intellectual Monopoly
book, for a comprehensive argument, I have also argued against software
patents etc. I am also familiar with the arguments of the content vendors.
I am defending my position in a thought experiment.
Details like the fact that copyright is protected by the Berne
convention, can be ignored in a thought experiment.
I would suggest I am confident rather than dogmatic, on the whole I am
defending against several of people at once, and keeping my replies
prompt. So if I miss some details.
For example, we could require all source code to be supplied, in the
absence of copyright and disallow EULA's which are of dubious legal value.
http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2009/aug/18/rms-talks-pirate-party-uk/
This addresses the main issues R. Stallman has, details like the clauses
in GPL v2 vs GPL v3 are a minefield of detail.
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