[WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [WSIS-CT] On "Intellectual Property Rights" (IPRs)

[wolfgang at imv.au.dk]

It is always nice to play with word and find out the very, very precise definition of a subject. The question is, will the rest of the world take this?

wolfgang

-- Original Message --
From: "Georg C. F. Greve" <greve at fsfeurope.org>
To: plenary at wsis-cs.org
Send: 03:03 PM
Subject: [WSIS-CT] On "Intellectual Property Rights" (IPRs)

Hi all,

sorry for crossposting, I'll keep this short.

We all know of the problems with the terminology of "intellectual
property rights" (IPRs), which not only mix very different areas of
law, preventing qualified discussion, it also carries a strong
ideology.

We have therefore deliberately avoided the terminology for our civil
society working group, which is called "Patents, Copyrights and
Trademarks" (PCT) working group for exactly those reasons.

However, as different as these instruments are, they do have one thing
in common. 

They all are legally implemented by and it is their function to
generate limited monopolies.

Therefore I think the terms

 "Limited Intellectual Monopolies" (LIM)
 "Intellectual Monopolies" (IM)

would offer adequate replacements for

 "Intellectual Property Rights" (IPR)
 "Intellectual Property" (IP)

and would like to offer this as an alternative to other people in
civil society who are looking for a terminology that does not carry an
ideology contradicting our values and goals.

Regards,
Georg

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Georg C. F. Greve                                 <greve at fsfeurope.org>
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