www/philosophy not-ipr.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       06/12/17 22:30:15

Modified files:
        philosophy     : not-ipr.html 

Log message:
        Minor cleanups.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/not-ipr.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.3&r2=1.4

Patches:
Index: not-ipr.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/not-ipr.html,v
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--- not-ipr.html        11 Dec 2006 19:58:42 -0000      1.3
+++ not-ipr.html        17 Dec 2006 22:30:05 -0000      1.4
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
 <p>
 Trademark law, by contrast, was not intended to promote any particular
 way of acting, but simply to enable buyers to know what they are
-buying. Legislators under the influence of "intellectual property,"
+buying. Legislators under the influence of "intellectual property",
 however, have turned it into a scheme that provides incentives for
 advertising.
 </p>
@@ -132,13 +132,13 @@
 nonetheless, critics of the practice often grab for that label because
 it has become familiar to them. By using it, they misrepresent the
 nature of the issue. It would be better to use an accurate term, such
-as "legislative colonization," that gets to the heart of the matter.
+as "legislative colonization", that gets to the heart of the matter.
 </p>
 
 <p>
 Laymen are not alone in being confused by this term. Even law
 professors who teach these laws are lured by, and distracted by, the
-seductiveness of the term "intellectual property," and make general
+seductiveness of the term "intellectual property", and make general
 statements that conflict with facts they know. For example, one
 professor wrote in 2006:
 </p>
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
 "Unlike their descendants who now work the floor at WIPO, the framers of the
 US constitution had a principled, pro-competitive attitude to intellectual
 property. They knew rights might be necessary, but...they tied congress's
-hands, restricting its power in multiple ways."
+hands, restricting its power in multiple ways".
 </p>
 
 <p>
@@ -170,10 +170,11 @@
 
 <p>
 Economics operates here, as it often does, as a vehicle for unexamined
-values (such as, that amount of production matters, while freedom and
-way of life do not), and factual assumptions that are mostly false
-(such as; that copyrights on music supports musicians, or that patents
-on drugs support life-saving research).
+assumptions.  These include assumptions about values, such as that
+amount of production matters, while freedom and way of life do not,
+and factual assumptions which are mostly false, such as that
+copyrights on music supports musicians, or that patents on drugs
+support life-saving research.
 </p>
 
 <p>
@@ -191,9 +192,9 @@
 <p>
 Neither of these issues is solely economic in nature, but they are not
 similar, and anyone looking at them in the shallow economic
-perspectives of overgeneralization cannot grasp the differences.
-If you put them both in the general "intellectual property" pot,
-that obstructs thinking clearly about each one.
+perspectives of overgeneralization cannot grasp the differences.  If
+you put both laws in the general "intellectual property" pot, you will
+find that obstructs your ability to think clearly about each one.
 </p>
 
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@@ -293,7 +294,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2006/12/11 19:58:42 $ $Author: alex_muntada $
+$Date: 2006/12/17 22:30:05 $ $Author: rms $
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 </p>
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