"intellectual" property rights

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Sep 15 09:41:17 PDT 1999


[bounced for a taboo word]

A posting of another list. While reading this, it is hard to avoid the conclusions that intellectuals are in the dire need of a forced labor camp, just as doctor Stalin presecribed.

wojtek


>Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:12:37 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Peter Kosenko <kosenko at netwood.net>
>Subject: [stormingheaven] "intellectual" property rights
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>From: "Peter Kosenko" <kosenko at netwood.net>
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>Well, again, I don't have time to respond at length to everything, but if
you want to see a good example of Wotjek's contention that intellectual property rights are subject to extreem abuse, check out the article in yesterday's Los Angeles Times "Will Cyber Patents Stymie Hollywood Giants?"
>
>http://www.latimes.com/HOME/BUSINESS/CUTTING/t000081909.html
>
>Some businesses are now trying to patent "business processes" that are
unrelated to any particular technology. One company, for example, claims to hold a patent to "the very concept of delivering movies and music over the Net." In other words, it believes that it can extort a fee from anyone who develops any actual technology to do the same, and from any businesses that try to set up a similar form of movie or music distribution.
>
>One might call this the revenge of the MBA. Apparently, enough people
were turned out with MBA degrees who failed to get real jobs, so they are busy as squirrels writing up business plans and trying to "patent" them as a means of extortion.
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>Peter Kosenko
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