[pp.int.general] Greens saying Pirate Parties unnecessary

[Richard Stallman]

    Sometimes terms like "information law" (and "information rights") are used. 
    It is a generic concept, not a specific right per se.

"Information law" is a coherent concept: it covers how laws regulate
the use of information.

"Information law" is coherent because it derives from a real common
concern rather than a purely theoretical analogy.

It is NOT equivalent to "intellectual property"; some of the
"intellectual property" laws concern use of information, while others
don't.  For instance, trademark law and plant variety monopolies do
not concern use of information (unless you twist the word out of
shape).  You can tell in advance that the two categories can't be
coextensive, because one of them is coherent and the other is not.

    Joseph Kohler (1849-1919) devised the term "immaterial goods" 

That might be a synomym for "intellectual property".  If so, the
confusion is the same regardless of which name is used.  You can
eliminate the biasthat comes from the word "property" by replacing
that word, but that resolve the idea of generalizing about these
disparate laws.