Re: Were Intellectual Property to be abolished altogether, would you or FSF support it?

[Yasuaki Kudo]

Thank you so much for all of this information!
My personal preference/instinct is to go voluntarily free software, regardless 
of what other companies or even cooperatives do.

What our email conversation revealed would be very useful in trying to persuade 
others if/when I need to do so 😄

At the same time, we probably need focused analysis for "Intellectual Property" 
(Now I understand there is even an objection to the term itself 😅), including 
software licensing, for the (worker) cooperatives because of their stated 
objective of advancing community interests.

Cheers,
Yasu


> On Jul 12, 2021, at 14:44, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Il 12/07/21 02:04, Yasuaki Kudo ha scritto:
>> the spirit of abolishing the Intellectual Property
>>    would perhaps also need to be stated
> 
> If you mean abolishing the *term*, see the link I sent earlier:
> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html
> 
> If you mean abolishing any and all things occasionally placed under that 
> term, you will still need to define an overarching principle to do so. In 
> addition to some of the classics linked by Aaron Wolf you can see:
> 
> Boldrin and Levine, "Against Intellectual Monopoly"
> http://dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm
> 
> Lange and Powell, "No law: intellectual property in the image of an absolute 
> First Amendment".
> https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2085671W/No_law
> 
> Federico