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

[Mikko Särelä]

On Sun, 28 Jun 2009, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     > 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.
 
You are quite right. It is interesting to see people's reactions when they 
realize that copyright is a leftover government granted monopoly from the 
mercantilist times. 

-- 
Mikko Särelä
"It is through exchange that difference becomes a blessing, not a
curse", Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain