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  • From: "Björn Terelius" <bjorn.terelius AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Unbundling the GPL
  • Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:10:35 +0200



On 4/26/07, Terry Hancock <hancock AT anansispaceworks.com> wrote:
Björn Terelius wrote:
> Freedoms and rights are the same thing.

No. In the context of IP law they are exact opposites, since the
"rights" in question are specifically the rights to limit other people's
freedoms.

--

But they also refer to the users *rights* to use the work, and in that sense
they are equal.

-Bjorn





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