[pp.int.general] International day of Sharing - September 12

Richard Stallman rms at gnu.org
Mon Jun 29 03:07:21 CEST 2009


    > currently we have a legislatory nightmare where copyright, patent
    > rights or related intellectual property rights can never be weakened,
    > only strengthened. What we need to do is break that hegemony.

To succeed in reducing copyright power, we need to teach
people it is a mistake to refer to copyright as "intellectual
property."  See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html.
That term implies that copyright is a natural right that
must never be interfered with.



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