[FC-discuss] "Intellectual property", do we really want to use that term?

[Alex Leavitt]

I understand the history of the discourse, but I think, basically, we use
"intellectual property" because it's a generally accepted term, particularly
used in law settings.


On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Gabriel Joel Perez
<gabrieljoel at gmail.com>wrote:

> I don't know why I didn't notice this before but today I realized that we
> are using the term "intellectual property" in the freeculture.org website.
>
>
> Students for Free Culture is an international chapter-based student
>> organization that promotes the public interest in *intellectual property*and information & communications technology policy.
>
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> IMHO I think we should discourage the use of that term. Mr. Stallman has
> gone through the trouble of summarizing why the use of that term might be a
> bad idea http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html.
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