<div>On one hand we have an individual´s right to identify herself or himself through works of art. What does this have to do with post-modern copyright or trademark law? Not much I would say. Even trade secrets are included in WIPO´s definition of intellectual property. If I work for a company which pollutes the environment and I tell someone about it, I can be accused of violating the company´s intellectual property rights as defined by WIPO.</div>
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<div>Today´s "intellectual property rights" are not there to protect individuals or even tribes. Instead, they are part of a monopoly system which still enables us to treat "the rest of the world" as a colony.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Amelia Andersdotter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:teirdes@gmail.com">teirdes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">2009/1/8 Richard M Stallman <<a href="mailto:rms@gnu.org">rms@gnu.org</a>>:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> "right" to a work that's derived by one's creative activities<br>> stretches a lot further back than even Gutenberg. It's present even in<br>> family heirlooms of bronze age clans (such as clan patterns on axes or<br>
> tools, for instance).<br>><br>> If I understand you correctly, that is something like a coat of arms.<br>> If so, it is nothing at all like copyright<br><br></div>Right, it's more like a trademark. But my point was that the concept<br>
of something immaterial belonging to a certain person, of group of<br>persons, is quite old, and also quite natural. Just as tribes with<br>tribal axes, modern artists define themselves through their works, and<br>there is no particular sense in saying that's changed with the<br>
internet or that they're silly because of it.<br><br>Modern copyright law is, I think we all agree, not optimal and needs<br>to be changed. But that doesn't mean discarding all of copyright as<br>inherently bad.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>/amelia<br></font>
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