CrosbieFitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060412]: > > Intellectual property is nevertheless a valid concept. > > It's best to think of it in these terms: > > Publication is the voluntary act of transferring private ownership of IP > from the author to the public. > > The abominable distortion of the term IP comes when it is suggested that the > author retains ownership after publication. > > This has never been the case. Copyright was designed to encourage such > ownership transfers by granting the author a monopoly over > publication/reproduction for a limited period of time.
It might be useful to precise the IP term in the current debate/directive by copyright. I do not see any other right (maybe spatial databases?) applying to geo data. -- Benjamin Henrion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://bh.udev.org <<< INSPIRE Directive will close >>> <<< Public access to State-collected Geographic Data >>> <<< All over Europe >>> <<< http://publicgeodata.org >>> _______________________________________________ geo-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/geo-discuss
