I love how these complex axioms come across as basic, universal truths. "First, these rights must be safeguarded in order to provide an incentive for innovation. Without any guarantee of legitimacy, entrepreneurs will have no motivation to create new intellectual property, as it could be stolen at any time. Second, at a broader level, intellectual property rights are important because each person has a fundamental right to enjoy the fruits of his or her mental labor. Intellectual entrepreneurship requires a broad societal commitment to the rule of law and the importance of private enterprise."
And in case they don't post my comment, here it is, paraphrased as I don't remember exactly what I said. These newfangled digital restrictions on copying and associated policies are too complicated for me! I just use more freely licensed music, like stuff from Jamendo, so I don't have to deal with them. Tom On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Parker Higgins <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt to the writer, who probably wrote > "IP-rights" and had a clueless editor expand out the acronym, but this > sentence came across as particularly ridiculous: > > "Although these moves are encouraging, however, we still see numerous > opportunities for Internet Protocol-rights holders to expand in the Internet > space, particularly in sports programming and back-catalogue access to > popular television programs." > > P > > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Parker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/12/13/universities-intellectual-copyright-unauthorized/ >> chat it up here and in the comments there. >> >> And if someone wants to write a good response, we'll put it up on the >> national blog! >> >> -- >> http://www.madebyparker.com >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > > > -- > parker higgins > berlin, germany > > http://parkerhiggins.net > > gmail / gchat: [email protected] > twitter / identi.ca: @thisisparker > skype: thisisparker > > please consider software freedom before reading this e-mail on a proprietary > platform > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
