World Intellectual Property Day

Dotnaught writes "The Business Software Alliance wants everyone to know that today is World Intellectual Property Day, 'an initiative to educate young people about how intellectual property rights foster innovation, creativity and economic opportunity.' To mark the occasion, CopyNight, a monthly gathering of people interested in restoring balance in copyright law, is hosting a get-together tonight in various cities throughout the U.S."

Comments

Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

What Is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government

Positing that "Proerty is Theft."

Re:Examples?

[Mr Ambersand]

I'd be surprised if he did beg to differ. Without copyright law, it would not have been necessary to re-create Unix and the Unix infrastruction (including the C compiler).

Re:Remember when copyrights were 17 years?

[crow23]

I think you are confusing patent terms and copyright terms.

Patent term in the United States used to be 17 years from the date of issue, now it's 20 years from the date of filing.

Copyright term in the U.S. was originally 14, extendable for another 14. Subsequent developments have lengthened the term to what it is today.

See this website for the history of copyright http://arl.cni.org/info/frn/copy/timeline.html

Re:I celebrated

[natrius]

The whole point of paying for music when you could get it off P2P networks is to support an artist whose work you enjoy. If you buy music from allofmp3.com, none of that money goes to the artists. If you want to support artists without getting DRM-laden music, then buy CDs. If you really don't care about the artists and just like how convenient allofmp3.com is, then by means, continue. Making money off of other people's creative works without compensating them is under plain copyright infringement on my moral ladder.

Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Turk - in this instance - is used as a generic term for Musulman or Moslem. This was a common usage from the 14th through 18th centuries. It is not nominative of the Turkish nation-state, arising in the late Ottoman times, nor does it refer to the dominant ethnic population of Anatolia.