I lol'd when I read that paragraph. I thought all of those point were thoroughly debunked years ago.
What sheer noobitry. Or maybe they're just trolling us. -Frank On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Thomas Levine <[email protected]>wrote: > I love how these complex axioms come across as basic, universal truths. > > "First, these rights must be safeguarded in order to provide an > incentive for innovation. Without any guarantee of legitimacy, > entrepreneurs will have no motivation to create new intellectual > property, as it could be stolen at any time. Second, at a broader > level, intellectual property rights are important because each person > has a fundamental right to enjoy the fruits of his or her mental > labor. Intellectual entrepreneurship requires a broad societal > commitment to the rule of law and the importance of private > enterprise." > > And in case they don't post my comment, here it is, paraphrased as I > don't remember exactly what I said. > > These newfangled digital restrictions on copying and associated > policies are too complicated for me! I just use more freely licensed > music, like stuff from Jamendo, so I don't have to deal with them. > > Tom > > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Parker Higgins <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt to the writer, who probably > wrote > > "IP-rights" and had a clueless editor expand out the acronym, but this > > sentence came across as particularly ridiculous: > > > > "Although these moves are encouraging, however, we still see numerous > > opportunities for Internet Protocol-rights holders to expand in the > Internet > > space, particularly in sports programming and back-catalogue access to > > popular television programs." > > > > P > > > > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/12/13/universities-intellectual-copyright-unauthorized/ > >> chat it up here and in the comments there. > >> > >> And if someone wants to write a good response, we'll put it up on the > >> national blog! > >> > >> -- > >> http://www.madebyparker.com > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Discuss mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > > > > > > > -- > > parker higgins > > berlin, germany > > > > http://parkerhiggins.net > > > > gmail / gchat: [email protected] > > twitter / identi.ca: @thisisparker > > skype: thisisparker > > > > please consider software freedom before reading this e-mail on a > proprietary > > platform > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >
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