Mark Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > El Tux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> espoused: >> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:17:16 +0000, Unruh wrote: >> >>> rjack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>>>El Tux wrote: >>> >>>>> In contrast, copying for your own personal use is a legal gray area in >>>>> the US. None of the cases you cited involves such use. >>> >>> >>> It is a legal grey area not because it is written in the law( if it were >>> it would not be grey) but because it is impossible to make lawas which >>> 90 % of the population violate. YOu cannot throw 90% into jail. It is >>> also a grey area because making backups IS authorized in law. Thus >>> attempts by the companies to negate that right are themselves arguably >>> illegal. >> >> What I'd like to see is a law that says any copyright verdict must >> support the original intent of copyright as expressed in the U.S. >> Constitution: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by >> securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive >> Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." If you can show >> that a specific application of copyright law is having the opposite >> effect to that stated intent, then that application should be declared >> unenforceable. And if it can be shown that a copyright owner is >> deliberately abusing copyright law in a manner that is *clearly* in >> contravention of that intent, the judge should have the option of >> declaring his copyright null and void. >> >> The same should go for patents. > > The first thing to consider is whether patent should ever be transferrable > from the original inventor. To my mind, if a company employs someone > who invents something, that invention should remain the property of > that person, and the company should license it from them, similarly, it > should not be possible to sell on patents to patent trolling companies > like Acacia, or anyone else, for that matter. > > It's about time that ownership of such things was returned to the real > inventors...
If ever there was a time that Mark Kent revealed himself to be a troll it is now. Listen to what he is saying : a company who employs someone is not entitled to the things that that employee is paid to work on. He is is a troll or absolutely making it with a tele-tubbie. FWIW, I do agree with stopping the selling of patents to a degree. Use it or lose it in other words. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
