[pp.int.general] Fwd: <nettime> Richard Stallman: How the Swedish Pirate Party Platform Backfires on Free Software

[Mikko Särelä]

And with modern technology, it should not be difficult to develop open 
Internet based protocol that enables it to happen automatically. It's the 
spammers that we would have to worry about...

-Mikko

On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Felipe Sanches wrote:
> But at the same time, I agree that, since copyright is a state granted
> protection, there should be a guarantee that society will benefit from
> the granted protection. If there's no guarantee, there should be no
> state support.
> 
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Christian
> Hufgard<pp at christian-hufgard.de> wrote:
> >
> > Felipe Sanches wrote:
> >> I like the escrow proposal.
> >>
> >> But, the Bern Convention requires that the copyrights are granted
> >> without the need of formaly registering the work. So, that makes me
> >> think that requiring deposit of source code in order to copyright it
> >> would be incompatible with the Bern Convention.
> >>
> >> Almost all countries in the world have signed this convention.
> >
> > And you furthermore have the problem that you had to force any software
> > company to deliver any release and any patch...
> >
> >
> > Christian
> >
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Mikko Särelä
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