Re: [Fsfe-uk] Young Greens moving on FS

[Richard Smith]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Ian Lynch wrote:

> > P.S.  Lumping copyright & patent law together is a mistake --- they should
> >        be considered separately
>
> In sprcific cases, but they do have the common property of protecting
> intellectual property.

According to RMS, your thinking that these very different laws have
anything in common could be a *result* of your using the term
'intellectual property'.  This article says the term was not created
because the laws have anything in common, but to mislead people into
thinking they do.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml

-- 
Richard