Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards
by burntsushi on Saturday October 05, 2013 @11:25AM
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Copyrights, patents and trademarks all share a single unifying assumption: ideas are things that can be owned. Since I disagree with that assumption, it makes sense to speak about "disagreeing with intellectual property" if IP is just a synonym for "a legal framework that uses violence to support laws that allow ideas to be owned."
Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards
by wdewind on Friday October 04, 2013 @11:13AM
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That's an interesting piece, thanks for sharing. I think from the perspective of "what existing pieces of culture can I use to create something new" IP is actually a useful bucket. From the perspective of people who have already created or are consuming that piece of culture, I agree that combining trademark with copyright and patents is not useful.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html