Royal Society Issues IP Charter

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday October 16, 2005 @12:04PM from the things-that-could-use-a-little-spit-polish dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Economist and the Guardian both have stories about the release of the Adelphi Charter – an international blueprint for how intellectual property should be made – by Britain's Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce. The Economist says “The Adelphi group are a varied crew ranging from Gilberto Gil, the Brazilian culture minister (and pop star) to Sir John Sulston, a Nobel-winning scientist who helped decode the human genome, and James Boyle, a law professor at Duke University. They believe that the intellectual-property system is starting to lean so far in favor of private enrichment that it no longer serves the public interest.” The charter calls for evidence-based policy, and a balance between rights protection and the public domain. It also condemns business method and software patents."

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Re:I challenge ... by Lehk228 · 2005-10-16 14:40 · Score: 0, Offtopic

putting mail in other people's boxes is illegal because if you can put things in, you can try to sneak stuff out. many things in this country are dependant on semi-reliable postal delivery. imagine if a neighbor who didn't like you dropped off pamphlets and happened to "lose" you VISA bill for you.

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Re:I challenge ... by Lehk228 · 2005-10-17 00:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

in the US door to door lettersare supposed to be placed in the door or any recepticle not labled "US Mail"

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Snowden and Manning are heroes.