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[Fsfe-uk] Guardian ""Intellectual property" is a silly euphemism"


From: Jon Grant
Subject: [Fsfe-uk] Guardian ""Intellectual property" is a silly euphemism"
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:11:36 +0000

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/21/intellectual.property

#  Cory Doctorow
# guardian.co.uk,
# Thursday February 21 2008

Once the ideas have escaped there's no getting them back ...

"Intellectual property" is one of those ideologically loaded terms
that can cause an argument just by being uttered. The term wasn't in
widespread use until the 1960s, when it was adopted by the World
Intellectual Property Organization, a trade body that later attained
exalted status as a UN agency. "

Continues.




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