[pp.int.general] WIPO DG mentions Pirate Party in speech to Blue Sky conference

[Amelia Andersdotter]

industrial property. it is used as industrial goods.

> [Apologies if this discussion has already occurred elsewhere on this list.]
>
> While I understand the desire to move away from the term "intellectual
> property" due to the unhelpful emphasis on property, and the suggestion
> that works covered by it are all of some "intellectual value" (and I
> cringe every time it is used), having a catch-all phrase is very useful.
> It strikes me that in order to stop people using it, it isn't sufficient
> to simply criticise it, but we must replace it with something more
> appropriate. While "the copyright monopoly" is one suggestion, that only
> covers copyright, whereas we need something that covers all of this
> stuff (copyrights, moral rights, database rights, performers' rights,
> design rights, patents, trade marks, resale rights and so on).
>
> My initial thought on this was something along the lines of "Information
> Rights" - as what all this stuff has in common is that it grants rights
> to use, or prevent the use of information in some way. However, it
> appears this term is already being used for Data Protection issues and
> similar (and the cynic inside me suggests someone has already tried to
> trademark it somewhere). Of course, data protection laws are in many
> ways similar to copyrights etc. in that they control how information can
> be used, copied and so on (in fact I vaguely recall cases where
> copyright has been used to protect the distribution of databases, rather
> than some sort of data protection law).
>
> Anyway, I would be interested in hearing people's thoughts on what term
> we *should* be using instead of IP.
>
> -Will Tovey
> legalpiracy.wordpress.com
>
> [There's an interesting, if technical and UK-centric discussion of the
> history of the term IP here, covering the age of industrial property
> (that made a little more sense) - worth a read for anyone interested:
> https://sites.google.com/site/petergroves81/Home ]
>
> On 04/03/2011 00:16, Richard Stallman wrote:
>> Every discussion we hold shapes our habits of speaking and habits of
>> thinking.  The term "intellectual property" tends to mislead the people
>> who use it as well as support a particular side of the debate.
>>
>> However, the reason I mentioned it here was to point out something
>> that we ought to criticize if we talk about or respond to that speech.
>> I was not responding to another posting here.
>>
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