If you want a lot more to reflect on, one option is my own long essay from years ago that itself has tons of links:
https://blog.wolftune.com/2008/06/rational-view-of-copyright.html (apologies if there's anything objectionable on the site, I've tried to make it clean, but I started on Blogger before I understood free software well enough, and I *still* haven't gotten around to escaping to my own server, it's on my task list) On 2021-07-11 4:04 p.m., Yasuaki Kudo wrote: > Thank you for all of your replies - I am no legal expert but in framing > this hypothesis, the spirit of abolishing the Intellectual Property > would perhaps also need to be stated (Legislators probably wouldn't be > able to even make a draft without it 😅) and the society will need to be > supportive of it. > > Otherwise, there will be all sorts of ways to work around the abolition > , including never releasing the relevant information to the public. > > And yes, trademarks etc - it would be very inconvenient if we couldn't > even make unique identifications 😅 > > And there seems to be a long history for this > subject. [1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright > > My original motivation of this inquiry is that my partners and I are in > the process of starting an IT-focused 'worker cooperative' where, just > like the GPL licensing, there is almost a playful inversion of > Capitalistic values. We will probably need to make software licensing > decisions sooner or later and I wanted to get a wholistic view of this > matter 😄. > > -Yasu > > On Jul 12, 2021, at 03:27, quil...@riseup.net wrote: > >  > > On 2021-07-10 4:44 p.m., Yasuaki Kudo wrote: > > This is a thought experiment: > > Would you or FSF support the idea of abolishing the concept of > > intellectual property altogether, making any form of 'Software > > Licensing', including GPL, null and void. Gone also will be any > > form of Patents and Copyrights. > > Just curious 😄 > > -Yasu > > Aaron Wolf <wolft...@riseup.net> writes: > > I support the abolition of copyright and patent law while keeping > > trademark law and moving some important things to new laws: > > - mandate source release for published works > > - prohibit DRM > > - expand trademark law to cover all forms of plaigiarism (some > aspects > > of that rely on copyright today, which is a bad legal structure) > > Abolishing copyright and patent laws without the rest *might* still > be > > net positive, but it would definitely have a mix of pros and cons. > > Aaron > > Snowdrift.coop > > I like Aaron's take. Yasuaki: consider that if you remove copyright > without Aaron's suggestions, it would make all programs for which > source > code is not provided non-free software. And, as Aaron has also > mentioned, some copyleft licences (such as the AGPL) prevent DRM in a > way. Censorship in any form is bad for freedom. > > References > > 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright > > > _______________________________________________ > libreplanet-discuss mailing list > libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org > https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss > _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss