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To: lawdude
You seem to have lost the on-off switch, barrister. Point of fact: you never had it.

I'm on when I say I'm on. Not in your hands nor effects is it to "turn me off", or shut me up. And I'm on now. Now you, you have yet to show any legal knowledge whatsoever, much less about copyrights and intellectual property.

Before there were written titles to land -- the boundaries described by clear metes and bounds all could see, there was constant strife and conflict. The introduction of deeds and written titles created a peace; they are a fundamental part of "establishing justice", of civilization.

Modern "IP" has few, almost no such metes and bounds. It sets up a disaster, a return to a regressive era of constant strife and conflict. Once some years ago we in the US had made and achieved, so I claim, a good try at establishing metes and bounds for IP -- we required working models of patentable inventions, we required that copyrighted works be registered, that a fully fidelic copy of the work be given to the federal copyright office.

The physical model that actually worked, the complete copy of copyrighted work -- these provided some metes and bounds beyond which inflated and constantly inflating claims of "my property!" can not be made.

Now even those markers are gone. The markers are gone. Patents are now just vague flurries of imaginary designs -- even process and algorithm, and only in hints are claimed. Copyrights expand to "like" works, and the "like" becomes ever more vagarious. The vagarity is resolved by willingness to apply money, social and political power the most ruthlessly. Not by fact or logic. The biggest brute in the arena of the courts will win whatever rights he desires. The big will devour the small.

464 posted on 04/08/2007 6:08:13 PM PDT by bvw
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To: bvw

You are still a raving idiot.


505 posted on 04/08/2007 7:56:03 PM PDT by lawdude (Fred! * Fred! * Fred! * Fred! * Fred! * Fred! * Fred! * Fred! * Fred! * Fred! * Fred! * Fred! *)
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