Re: origins of "IP"

From: <johnl[_at_]ibm.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 96 22:51:38 -0400

On 10/25/96, mch[_at_]cix.compulink.co.uk (Mike Holderness) said:
>
> Errr... Section One of the UK Copright, Designs & Patents Act 1998 reads
> "Copright shall be a property right". The drafters clearly felt the need
> to define this in distinction from something else -- and I understand
> that something else to be the mainstream Berne concept of Authors'
> Rights as something more akin to a human right than to property.

Interesting...I would regard the right to own property as a human right.

Are you sure we inherited your legal system?<g>

Regards,

John Lederer
<johnl[_at_]ibm.net>

Oregon, Wisconsin Received on Mon Oct 28 1996 - 03:47:33 GMT

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