dear all, *love* this news at bbc.
Egypt 'to copyright antiquities' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7160057.stm have always told myself the problem is not about new nations and civilizations trying to 'land-grab' 'intellectual property' if i can turn poisoned metaphors against themselves. the problem is when ancient civilizations with a vast repository of wisdom and knowledge decide to assert their 'prior knowledge' by merely expanding the sense of time on copyright laws, to fit the time-scales of such civilizations. so when china wakes up to assert copyrights and patents on their inventions, or when india decides its ancient knowledge has a lot of currency in the modern world, or brazil finds value in its ethnic medicines and knowledge... the WTO headquarters would be an interesting place to visit in the 21st century. :-) niyam bhushan -- niyam bhushan _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
