Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it> writes: > On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:00:48 +0000 Anthony W. Youngman wrote: > > > If it's copyright, it's proprietary. > > > > "proprietary" == "property". If it's copyright, it has an owner, > > therefore it's property, therefore it's proprietary. > > Your reasoning does not seem incorrect. I'm doubtful that it's correct to say “If it's copyright, it has an owner”. Copyright is *not* a property right; it's a different monopoly right. Monopolies are held; that doesn't make the holder of a monopoly the “owner” in a property sense. IANAL, but it seems the attempt to frame copyright as property is not founded in its inception nor its effects. -- \ “The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial | `\ television and could not exist in its present form without it.” | _o__) —John Kenneth Galbraith, _The New Industrial State_, 1967 | Ben Finney
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