<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">----- Mensaje original ----<br>De: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org><br>Enviado: lunes, 25 de agosto, 2008 19:50:15<br>> > If the US "copyright" model is the right one and the "author's rights" -nevertheless, the<br>> > UDHR standard- the wicked one, why do all these things happen in USA?<br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">> Because the US government is the tool of big business. It caved in completely around 1980 or so.<br>><br>> The ideals on which the US was based are very wise, but the US government today is their worst enemy. Sad<br>> to say, the European Union is following the same path.<br><br>Yes, no matter Republican or Democrat, regarding author's
rights is the same crap. Same happens in Spain with big two parties: PP and PSOE; PSOE (currently holding prime ministry) aims for levies, heavily restricted private copying, favouring RMOs and publishers ... PP aims for abolishing both levies and private copying and using DRM-like solutions instead, favouring publishers and have said nothing about its plans regarding <br><br>But this is not a new scenario, as nearly as soon as XIXth century Spain was one of the first countries signing Berne Convention.<br><br>> One indication of this is its tendency to use the term "intellectual property".<br><br>A very harmful usage, indeed.<br><br>> It is biased: it suggests a bad basis for thinking about copyright law, or whatever law one is talking about. It is<br>> also confused: it encourges people to treat copyright law, patent law, trademark law, and other laws as a<br>> single issue, and that leads people to be "for intellectual property" or
"against intellectual property", which are<br>> both simplistic.<br><br>We in PPI -and I say we as we all wrote it- recommend you, Mr. Stallman, to read <a href="http://int.piratenpartei.de/Levies_Questionnaire"><span style="font-weight: bold;">our answers to EC Levies Consultation</span></a>. There, we heavily criticize many things including the usage of expressions like <span style="font-style: italic;">intellectual property</span>.<br><br>> I would therefore like to make a suggestion for Pirate Parties' program:<br>><br>> To explicitly reject and denounce the term "intellectual property", and propose to undo recent government<br>> reorganizations motivated by that term that with the goal of grouping unrelated laws together under that term,<br>> with a view towards discouraging the public confusion that this grouping causes.<br><br>See our <a
href="http://int.piratenpartei.de/Pirate_Manifesto_parties_at_a_glance#Worldwide_.26_EU_scope_5"><span style="font-weight: bold;">joint stances regarding Culture & Author's Rights</span></a>: one of them explicitly states the following: "<i style="font-style: italic;">stop using expressions like 'intellectual property</i><span style="font-style: italic;">' (everyone seems to agree on that they are misleading and harmful)</span>"; so we in PPI actually agree with you in rejecting such expressions. Glad to be able to exchange mails with you again; regards,<br><br> <br> Carlos Ayala<br>
( Aiarakoa )<br><br> Partido Pirata National Board's Chairman<br><br>P.S.: By the way, Mr. Stallman, I know that you use to visit Extremadura, Spain -don't know if yearly-; next time you visit Spain, specifically Extremadura, I invite you to contact PIRATA's Information Society responsible -his mail is coordinador.si@partidopirata.es-, who lives there, in order to allow both of you to meet each other and share viewpoints regarding FLOSS and Author's Rights. Myself I would try to also attend the meeting.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></div></div></div><br>__________________________________________________<br>Correo Yahoo!<br>Espacio para todos tus
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