[Incubator] Incubation Committee meeting Monday 17th

[Daniel Morissette]

On 12-01-26 1:10 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>
> I believe the rationale behind avoiding the term Intellectual Property
> has two parts.
>
> First, it attempts to conflate a variety of very different legal
> mechanisms.
> Primarily copyright, patents and trademarks. Giving them all one name makes
> it harder to separate out things we might agree with (copyright) from
> things
> we might not (ie. Patents).
>
> Second, it expresses these legal mechanisms in a manner that implies that
> they are some sort of fundamental or manifest right rather than limited
> government granted monopolies intended to serve specific needs of society.
>

Thank you Frank for another great explanation. This was not obvious to 
me until now and I'll be more careful in the future in my use of the 
terms IP vs copyright to really mean what each one really means.

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