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 | | From: | Negloid | | Subject: | Re: Bill Gates and Tsunamis | | Date: | 18 Jan 2005 15:47:14 -0800 |
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royls@telus.net wrote:
> On 9 Jan 2005 02:31:33 -0800, "Negloid" wrote:
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> >royls@telus.net wrote:
> >> On 4 Jan 2005 23:31:45 -0800, "Negloid"
wrote:
> >So as long as it benefits society, it is perfectly possible, moral,
and
> >logical to own "the contents of someone's brain"?
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> ?? No. A trademark restriction is not ownership of the contents of
> anyone's brain, but a limitation on the uses people can make of those
> contents. Like a signature. As I said.
"A copyright is not ownership of the contents of anyone's brain, but a
limitation on the uses people can make of those contents."
> And you ignored.
Checkmate.
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| | From: | royls at telus.net | | Subject: | Re: Bill Gates and Tsunamis | | Date: | Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:02:19 GMT |
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| On 18 Jan 2005 15:47:14 -0800, "Negloid" wrote:
>royls@telus.net wrote:
>> On 9 Jan 2005 02:31:33 -0800, "Negloid" wrote:
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>> >royls@telus.net wrote:
>> >> On 4 Jan 2005 23:31:45 -0800, "Negloid"
>wrote:
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>> >So as long as it benefits society, it is perfectly possible, moral,
>and
>> >logical to own "the contents of someone's brain"?
>>
>> ?? No. A trademark restriction is not ownership of the contents of
>> anyone's brain, but a limitation on the uses people can make of those
>> contents. Like a signature. As I said.
>
>"A copyright is not ownership of the contents of anyone's brain, but a
>limitation on the uses people can make of those contents."
>> And you ignored.
>
>Checkmate.
?? You have just admitted that a copyright does not secure property
in ideas, but is, as I have said repeatedly, nothing but a
government-granted privilege of restricting others' freedom.
You just checkmated yourself.
-- Roy L
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