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CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: GNUN <gnun> 13/06/20 06:34:06
Modified files:
philosophy : no-ip-ethos.nl.html
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philosophy/po : no-ip-ethos.nl-diff.html
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Automatic update by GNUnited Nations.
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http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/no-ip-ethos.nl.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.7&r2=1.8
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/po/no-ip-ethos.nl-diff.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1
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<h2>Laat Je Niet Corrumperen Door ‘Intellectueel Eigendom’</h2>
<p>door <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard M. Stallman</a><br />
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+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><!-- Parent-Version: 1.75
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+
+<title>Don't Let ‘Intellectual Property’ Twist Your
Ethos</title>
+
+<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/no-ip-ethos.translist" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+
+ <h2>Don't Let ‘Intellectual Property’ Twist Your
Ethos</h2>
+
+ <p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/">Richard M.
+ Stallman</a><br />
+ June 09, 2006</p>
+
+ <p>Most free software licenses are based on copyright law, and
+ for good reason: Copyright law is much more uniform among
+ countries than contract law, which is the other possible
+ choice.</p>
+
+ <p>There's another reason not to use contract law: It would
+ require every distributor to get a user's formal assent to the
+ contract before providing a copy. To hand someone a CD without
+ getting his signature first would be forbidden. What a pain in
+ the neck!</p>
+
+ <p>It's true that in countries like China, where copyright law is
+ generally not enforced, we may also have trouble enforcing free
+ software license agreements, as Heather Meeker suggests in her
+ recent LinuxInsider column, <a href=
+ "http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/50421.html">“Only in
+ America? Copyright Law Key to Global Free Software
+ Model”</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>However, this is not a reason to press for more copyright
+ enforcement in China. Although we would use it to protect
+ people's freedom, we have to recognize that mostly it would be
+ used by the likes of Microsoft, Disney and Sony to take it
+ away.</p>
+
+ <p>Ironically, we might have more success enforcing copyright in
+ China than Microsoft, Disney and Sony — because what we would
+ want to do is easier.</p>
+
+ <p>Disney wishes to stamp out semi-underground organizations that
+ sell exact copies. With free software, regardless of precisely which
+ free license is used, that kind of copying is legal. What we want to prevent,
+ when the free software license is the
+ GNU <a href="/copyleft/gpl.html">GPL</a>, is the release of
+ proprietary software products based on our code. That kind of abuse
+ is at its worst when carried out by large, well-known companies
+ — and they are easier targets for enforcement. So GPL
+ enforcement in China is not a lost cause, though it won't be
+ easy.</p>
+
+ <h3>No Chinese Laundry</h3>
+
+ <p>Nonetheless, Meeker's claim that this leads to a global
+ problem is simply absurd. You can't “launder”
+ material copyrighted in the U.S. by moving it through China, as
+ she ought to know.</p>
+
+ <p>If someone violates the GNU GPL by distributing a non-free
+ modified version of GCC in the U.S., it won't make any difference
+ if it was obtained or modified in China. U.S. copyright law will
+ be enforced just the same.</p>
+
+ <p>Although this error might seem to be the central point of
+ Meeker's article, it is not. The real central point of the article
+ is the perspective embodied in her use of the term
+ “intellectual property”. She uses this term pervasively
+ as though it refers to something coherent — something it makes
+ sense to talk about and think about. If you believe that, you have
+ accepted the article's hidden assumption.</p>
+
+ <h3>Loose Language</h3>
+
+ <p>Sometimes Meeker switches between “intellectual
+ property” and “copyright” as if they were two
+ names for the same thing. Sometimes she switches between
+ “intellectual property” and “patents” as if they were
+ two names for the same thing. Having studied those two laws,
+ Meeker knows they are vastly different; all they have in common
+ is an abstract sketch of their form.</p>
+
+ <p>Other “intellectual property” laws don't even
+ share that much with them. The implication that you can treat
+ them all as the same thing is fundamentally misleading.</p>
+
+ <p>Along with the term “intellectual property” goes a
+ false understanding of what these laws are for. Meeker speaks of
+ an “ethos” of “intellectual property”
+ that exists in the U.S. because “intellectual property is
+ in the Constitution.” That's the mother of all
+ mistakes.</p>
+
+ <p>What is really in the U.S. Constitution? It doesn't mention
+ “intellectual property”, and it says nothing at all
+ about most of the laws that term is applied to. Only two of them —
+ copyright law and patent law — are treated there.</p>
+
+ <p>What does the Constitution say about them? What is its ethos?
+ It is nothing like the “intellectual property ethos”
+ that Meeker imagines.</p>
+
+ <h3>Failure to Execute</h3>
+
+ <p>What the Constitution says is that copyright law and patent law
+ are optional. They need not exist. It says that if they do exist,
+ their purpose is to provide a public benefit — to promote
+ progress by providing artificial incentives.</p>
+
+ <p>They are not rights that their holders are entitled to; they
+ are artificial privileges that we might, or might not, want to
+ hand out to encourage people to do what we find useful.</p>
+
+ <p>It's a wise policy. Too bad Congress — which has to carry
+ it out on our behalf — takes its orders from Hollywood and
+ Microsoft instead of from us.</p>
+
+ <p>If you appreciate the U.S. Constitution's wisdom, don't let
+ “intellectual property” into your ethos; don't let
+ the “intellectual property” meme infect your
+ mind.</p>
+
+ <p>Practically speaking, copyright and patent and trademark law
+ have only one thing in common: Each is legitimate only as far as
+ it serves the public interest. Your interest in your freedom is a
+ part of the public interest that must be served.</p>
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