From: Alessandro Rubini rubini@gnu.org
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 11:24:28AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
I'm unsure how to respond to the rest of your points as the differences between copyright and IP law aren't clear to me today. Maybe someone else will do better.
Alex:
IP is the wider law, governing copyrights, trademarks, etc. Copyright is merely asserting authorship. intellectual-property.gov.uk is pretty good.
Actually, "intellectual property" is a buzzword. There is no "IP law" to my knowledge, but there are laws about copyright, patents, trademarks.
"intellectual property" is the term information owners use to spread the idea that owning information is a natural thing just like private property (yes, some of you may disagree, but you get my point anyways).
Don't mix the "European Copyright" (at least to my understaning) with the bad english word "Copyright".