After so many years of hearing Richard Stallman insisting time after time that we shouldn't use "intellectual property" to refer to copyrigh issues, and after watching so many laws trying to confuse the issue in the last months, I am becoming more and more convinced that he has been right all the time and we should be grateful for his (no our) patience.<br>
<br>thanks.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/4/29 Richard Stallman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rms@gnu.org" target="_blank">rms@gnu.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im"> "Conversely, Jordan has always had much more narrowly-crafted limitations<br>
to copyright. In fact, in 2000 Jordan signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA)<br>
with the US requiring it to increase its IP protection to still more<br>
stringent<br>
levels than required by the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of<br>
Intellectual Property Rights, or TRIPS, of the World Trade Organisation<br>
(WTO).<br>
<br>
</div>Referring to copyright using the confused rubric of "IP"<br>
tends to encourage harsh and bad laws like these.<br>
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--<br>
Dr Richard Stallman<br>
President, Free Software Foundation<br>
51 Franklin St<br>
Boston MA 02110<br>
USA<br>
<a href="http://www.fsf.org" target="_blank">www.fsf.org</a> <a href="http://www.gnu.org" target="_blank">www.gnu.org</a><br>
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.<br>
Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call<br>
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