[free-sklyarov] Re: He's free....

[alfee cube]

what a great paragraph!


--- Jimmy Alderson <jimmy at underthestairs.com> wrote:
>  "That ideas should spread from one to another over
> the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of
> man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have
> been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature,
> when she made them , like fire, expansible over all
> space, without lessening their density at any point,
> and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have
> our physical being, incapable of confinement or
> exclusive appropriation.  Inventions then cannot, in
> nature, be a subject of property."  -Thomas
> Jefferson
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Jason H Clouse <jhclouse at juno.com>
> To: <free-sklyarov at zork.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 12:02 AM
> Subject: Re: [free-sklyarov] Re: He's free....
> 
> 
> > <<Much of what you say is an opinion about what
> the law ought to be.>>
> > 
> > Kind of depends on what you mean.  The fact of the
> matter is that any law
> > passed by the national legislature that addresses
> Copyright or Patent in
> > this manner is in violation of the Constitution by
> exceeding the
> > enumerated powers.  Congress was only given
> permission to pass laws
> > granting a time-limited monopoly right to authors
> and inventors and NOT
> > to grant a property right in this matter. 
> Furthermore, *ownership* of
> > the expression of ideas is a patently (if you'll
> pardon the pun) silly
> > notion.  BTW, I'm a musician--I definitely stand
> to gain from the
> > ownership of expression; but not much more than I
> do from a limited
> > monopoly right.
> > 
> > <<Western jurisprudence does now and has long
> recognized intangible
> > property.>>
> > 
> > Certainly this matter is heavily based on who you
> talk to.  I can't see
> > any sensible reason to consider intangibles to be
> property. 
> > Nevertheless, if you have any good arguments for
> it I'd certainly be
> > willing to hear them.
> > 
> > <<There are enough good arguments against this
> entire proceeding; leave
> > the unsupportable arguments for the other side.>>
> > 
> > Agreed.
> > 
> > J
> >
>
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