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Reinier Bakels wrote:
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<div><font color="#0000ff">First of all, if the Manifesto is not
usable in our view, we just don't use it. or at least, I would propose
not to use it.</font></div>
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It's in pirate parties members to decide whether any of the three
drafts is usable or not; not just in your hands or my hands.<br>
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<div><font color="#0000ff">Secondly, the human rights issue is indeed
complicated - but the confusion imho can be resolved. You refer (I
presume) to art. 27(2) UDHR: "Everyone has the right to the protection
of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific,
literary or artistic production of which he is the author." Well, in
practice there is little disagreement that this provision should not
be taken literally.</font></div>
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Have you read the link I gave you? I presume you didn't. If you had,
you would have seen that I'm not just literally interpreting 27.2 UDHR,
but backing it with UN's Economic and Social Council 2005 report on
Culture and Author's Rights.<br>
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<div><font color="#0000ff">It is widely recognised that copyright has
limitations. Firstly, the subject-matter is limited (= the object). In
simple terms: copyright protects expressions, not ideas. Secondly, the
rights are limited, both in time and in contents. If it would be a
genuine human right, neither time nor contents should be limited
(except in case of plain abuse). But time is life+70, generally, and
the contents are limited by the fair use doctrine in the US, and the
closed system of limitations in continental Europe.</font></div>
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