[pp.int.general] copyright vs. "droit d'auteur"

[Jouni Snellman]

On one hand we have an individual´s right to identify herself or himself
through works of art. What does this have to do with post-modern copyright
or trademark law? Not much I would say. Even trade secrets are included in
WIPO´s definition of intellectual property. If I work for a company which
pollutes the environment and I tell someone about it, I can be accused of
violating the company´s intellectual property rights as defined by WIPO.

Today´s "intellectual property rights" are not there to protect individuals
or even tribes. Instead, they are part of a monopoly system which still
enables us to treat "the rest of the world" as a colony.


On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Amelia Andersdotter <teirdes at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/1/8 Richard M Stallman <rms at gnu.org>:
> >    "right" to a work that's derived by one's creative activities
> >    stretches a lot further back than even Gutenberg. It's present even in
> >    family heirlooms of bronze age clans (such as clan patterns on axes or
> >    tools, for instance).
> >
> > If I understand you correctly, that is something like a coat of arms.
> > If so, it is nothing at all like copyright
>
> Right, it's more like a trademark. But my point was that the concept
> of something immaterial belonging to a certain person, of group of
> persons, is quite old, and also quite natural. Just as tribes with
> tribal axes, modern artists define themselves through their works, and
> there is no particular sense in saying that's changed with the
> internet or that they're silly because of it.
>
> Modern copyright law is, I think we all agree, not optimal and needs
> to be changed. But that doesn't mean discarding all of copyright as
> inherently bad.
>
> /amelia
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