Re: Copyright & The New World Economic Order

On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Harry Hillman Chartrand <h-chartrand[_at_]home.com> wrote:
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> COPYRIGHT AND THE NEW WORLD ECONOMIC ORDER
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> Much is made in the popular press of the emerging global knowledge-based
> economy. But what is the foundation upon which it is to be built?
> Copyright, in my opinion, is one of the four cornerstones of this
> emerging new world economic order. The others are: patents, registered
> industrial designs and trademarks. Collectively, these constitute the
> legal foundation for the industrial organization of the emerging global
> knowledge-based economy.

As people's natural right to communicate knowledge in any form and in any mean and to put knowledge in practice being trampled, constricted, and forbidden by the few powerful entities and individuals; you call copyright a cornerstone of the economy!? Nay, copyright is just a block of marble stone that is nested somewhere in one of the walls in the temple of economy, these walls resting on the foundation which rests on the cornerstones.

Joseph Pietro Riolo
<riolo[_at_]voicenet.com> Received on Sat Jul 10 1999 - 13:49:29 GMT