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Rick Falkvinge (Piratpartiet) wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4957C76D.4040204@piratpartiet.se" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Viewing or treating "intellectual property" as property in any sense is basically hogwash.</pre>
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Even considering that expression is hogwash. I would suggest to try to
avoid it as much as possible :)<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4957C76D.4040204@piratpartiet.se" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">That was a rhetorical trick used by the printing lobby in 1708 to have the copyright monopoly re-enacted by British Parliament after its cessation in 1695. Casting it as property would make the monopoly be written into the stronger common law, rather than statute law.
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It arrives <a
href="http://noticias.juridicas.com/base_datos/Privado/cc.l2t4.html#a428">119
years late for Spain</a>, Rick. Legal systems like Spanish are, if I'm
not wrong, code jurisdictions rather than common law jurisdictions
-there exists case law in Spain, though it cannot violate the written
law (just interpretate it within the margins given by the code)-.<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4957C76D.4040204@piratpartiet.se" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Copyright is a government-sanctioned private monopoly on duplication and public performance of certain creative works. Nothing more, nothing less.
Let's take that again: Copyright is a monopoly.
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I think the <i>c word</i> is another word to be avoided, because of
its monopolistic nature; let's rather talk about author's rights -i.e.,
moral rights and, <a
href="http://www.piratpartiet.se/international/english">quoting
Piratpartiet</a>, "<i>monopoly for the copyright holder to exploit an
aesthetic work commercially should be limited</i>"-. Regards,<br>
<br>
<br>
Carlos Ayala<br>
( Aiarakoa )<br>
<br>
Partido Pirata National Board's Chairman<br>
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