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

[Elizabeth Stark]

i remember pointing this out to someone a while back and also not liking
that description. do we really work on trademark and patent issues? (i know
there has been very limited involvement in the past, but i'm talking about
at present.) i'd much prefer *not* to use the term, and i don't really know
how it got there in the first place.

plus is that really all that we do? i'd say that we promote the ability to
share, access, and rework culture and knowledge, along with an environment
of technological freedom that supports it.

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.orgwebsite.
>>
>> Students for Free Culture is an international chapter-based student
>>> organization that promotes the public interest in *intellectual property
>>> * and information & communications technology policy.
>>
>>
>> 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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