Ranting to /dev/null

Intellectual property content

Doc Searls has a brilliant editorial at Linux Journal regarding the continuing battle over the legal status of ideas. I agree with his analysis that the root problem here is one of language. It isn't that I and others don't want it to be possible to make money off of an idea or media creation, but that we believe that ideas are not "property" in the same way that houses and cars are. But if your opponants can spin their pro-copy right (as Searls points out, the man who made that one word must have been a lawyer, because there is no freespeechright) arguments as a defense of property rights, then no one is going to listen to you. RTWT.