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Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 10:11:48 +0000 (GMT)
From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: Richard Stallman <rms_at_gnu.org>
Richard: Well said! I couldn't agree more! -- Stevan
> It's situations like this which make me feel like the boundary between
> copyright and patents are narrower than most people think. But I'll
> quit being an armchair IP expert now.
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Richard Stallman wrote:
> Copyrights and patents are so different that they have almost nothing
> in common. The laws work differently, their effects are different,
> and their origins are separate. So there is little one can validly
> say about both together. Experts on copyrights and patents and
> trademarks (whether armchair or not) can help the public understand
> them by avoiding terms such as "intellectual property" that treat them
> as a single topic.
>
> See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html for more
> explanation.
>
> [Steve would you forward this to the list?]
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