Re:Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage
by mpyne on Sunday May 18, 2014 @09:05PM
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> The legal controls could be for example around certification of a product: no source, no certification, no legally selling product.
GPL forbids giving away infringing code as well.
Does your proposed regulatory regime also encompass forcing all open-source and hobby coders to get one of your licenses before they can enable the "download as ZIP" feature on their GitHub?
Re:Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage
by mlinksva on Monday May 19, 2014 @02:57PM
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Could, probably wouldn't. Just as consumer, competition, procurement and other regulation typically doesn't cover hobbyists. I'd call that a feature -- more effective enforcement for commercial entities, hobbyists can ignore. Contrast with copyright hack, applies to all, commercial entities can ignore without consequence.
Such would still be "using legal controls" (or more broadly "using policy controls", as in the case of procurement, which could be private) but not necessarily to "enforce rights management of bits and bytes". The legal controls could be for example around certification of a product: no source, no certification, no legally selling product. In that case the bits and bytes independent of a product on the market would be unregulated, not subject to forced transparency.