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  • From: "Greg London" <email AT greglondon.com>
  • To: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Stealing ideas?
  • Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 11:37:12 -0500 (EST)


Branko Collin said:
> On 14 Nov 2004, at 13:22, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
>
>> Copyright protects works, not ideas.
>
> As a Project Gutenberg volunteer and webmaster of a site that deals
> with abandoned games, I must strongly object to this reading of
> copyright. Copyright does not protect works, it destroys them.
> Copyright protects the interests of authors (well, at least in
> theory). Works get the raw end of the deal with copyright.

Don't be so naive as to believe every bit of anti-copyright propaganda
you've ever read. The idea of intellectual property has acquired some
severe flaws of late, but the basic concept is sound and can even be
fair.







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