[Incubator] Incubation Committee meeting Monday 17th

[Daniel Morissette]

BTW, I thought this explanation was worth a blog entry:

http://dmorissette.blogspot.com/2012/01/intellectual-property-vs-copyright.html



On 12-01-26 8:22 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> 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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