In gnu.misc.discuss Alexander Terekhov <[email protected]> wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> In gnu.misc.discuss Alexander Terekhov <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Geistiges Eigentum in German is what "intellectual property" in >> > English you silly. >> What an amazing assertion! Do you have any evidence to back that up? > I've already provided the "evidence" silly. Yes, as you frequently do, but I was thinking more about evidence sensible. >> "Geistig" does not mean "intellectual", except as a subsidiary >> meaning. Its primary meaning is "spiritual" or "religious", or >> perhaps "mental". As I said, "geistig" is cognate with "ghostly". >> > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geistiges_Eigentum >> > "Unter Geistigem Eigentum (auch intellektuelles Eigentum, engl. >> > intellectual property) werden absolute Rechte an immateriellen >> > Guetern verstanden. >> Yes. "Immateriellen Guetern" = "ghostly goods" or "immaterial goods" or >> "goods lacking any substance". It cannot be "intellectual property". > Intellectual property is a form of intangible property you idiot. Don't be imbecillic - intangible stuff isn't property. > Stocks and bonds are other forms of intangible property. No. Stocks and bonds are tangible - they're things which have a definite , if varying, value and can be readily exchanged for that value in money. >> > Geistiges Eigentum wird daher auch als Immaterialgueterrecht >> > bezeichnet. Inhaber eines solchen Rechts ist z. B. der Anmelder >> > eines Patents oder der Schoepfer eines urheberrechtlichen Werks. " >> Seems likely. But there's no "property" anywhere in all that. There's >> copyright, which is an abstract right, not anything of any material >> substance. > All the euros on your bank account is your intangible property silly. > No? No. "in", not "on", and "are", not "is". All the euros in my bank account are a number of metal disks 2.3 cm in diameter, if an inconveniently large number, all perfectly tangible. > regards, > alexander. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
