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

[Samuel Klein]

top posting.

+1

the concept of IP misframes free culture.

sj

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Elizabeth Stark<emstark at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.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.
>>>
>>> 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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