"Against Intellectual Property"

Those of you who are not Slashdot readers might not be aware of this link,

   http://danny.oz.au/free-software/advocacy/against_IP.html

"Against Intellectual Property," chapter of a book,
"Information Liberation," by Brian Martin. As Danny
Yee notes, there is some confusion about Free Software and the public domain. But it is one end of a big argument including copyright.

And here are a couple of links from The New York Times on drug companies and intellectual property (free registration probably will be required -- unwrap the long lines if needed):

   http://search3.nytimes.com/search/daily/bin/fastweb?getdoc+site+site+55830+14+wAAA+pharmaceutical

   http://www.nytimes.com/00/07/26/editorial/26wed3.html

   http://search1.nytimes.com/search/daily/bin/fastweb?getdoc+site+site+41745+22+wAAA+geneva

I believe it is becoming apparent that intellectual property today is more than an academic matter, but rather one that might mean life or death to some.

Eric Eldred
<eldred[_at_]eldritchpress.org> Received on Thu Jul 27 2000 - 05:47:10 GMT