[gnu-pl] wwwgnudiff - raport nr 42

[Wojciech Kotwica]

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 <UL>
-<li><a href="/philosophy/rms-ebooks-freedom-or-copyright.html">Ebooks: Freedom 
Or Copyright</a> a slightly modified version of the article, originally 
published in Technology Review in 2000, by <a 
href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard Stallman</a>
+<li><a href="/philosophy/ebooks.html">Ebooks: Freedom Or Copyright</a> a 
slightly modified version of the article, originally published in Technology 
Review in 2000, by <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard Stallman</a>
 <li><a href="/philosophy/lessig-fsfs-intro.html">The introduction by
 Lawrence Lessig</a> to <a href="/doc/book13.html"><i>Free Software, Free
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 <UL>
+  <li> Some economists argue that copyright and patents <A
+HREF="http://www.reason.com/0303/fe.dc.creation.shtml";> fail to
+promote the progress</A> that they supposedly exist to promote.
+<p>
+This article takes a narrowly economic view of its subject, measuring
+social alternatives only by what goods are available for what price,
+assuming that you the citizen are a mere consumer and place no value
+on your freedom in itself.  It also uses the misleading term <A
+HREF="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#IntellectualProperty">"intellectual
+property"</A>, which is misleading because it lumps copyrights and
+patents together.  The article also lumps them together, which it can
+get away with because it ignores the (different) social issues that
+copyrights and patents raise.
+</p><p>
+Despite those flaws, it is significant. If one can judge copyright to
+be harmful even on narrow economic terms, disregarding the ethical
+wrong of stopping people from sharing, it can only be more harmful
+once we consider the ethics as well.
+</p>
 
   <li><A HREF="http://www.sincerechoice.org/";>Sincere Choice</A> explains
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