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Neither Intellectual Nor Property

Posted by kdawson on from the but-it's-not-imaginary-either dept.

Techdirt's Mike Masnick is writing a series of short articles on topics around intellectual property. His latest focuses on the term itself, exploring the nomenclature people have proposed to describe matter that is neither intellectual nor property. The whole series (starting here) is well worth a read.

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  1. Re:Hmmm by AJWM · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So if you happen to simultaneously invent something with someone who beats you to the patent office by 20 minutes, you're happy paying him for his intellectual property that you clearly stole (telepathically)?

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  2. Legal fiction? by Stanislav_J · · Score: 4, Interesting

    IANAL (I don't even play one on TV), but it seems to me that IP might be considered a legal fiction, much like the equally disputed concept of corporate personhood. Maybe our resident NYCL could set me straight on this.

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  3. Tax Intellectual Property by Dan667 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Even if it is a nickel, it would solve so many problems. If it is worth so much to protect then there should be no problem in paying tax to cover for the mess it makes.

  4. Re:Intellectual property by RCL · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But binary executable, mp3 file, a movie file and all the other things that are copyrighted are ultimately just a sequence of numbers. You can theoretically copy them by remembering all those numbers if you have a phenomenal memory and ability to type quickly.

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