[WSIS CS-Plenary] not thinking about "intellectual property" is....thinking more clearly

[Richard Stallman]

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=582602, by
Professor Lemley of Stanford Law School, shows how the term
"intellectual property" and its bias systematically promote the
distortion of the various laws to which it is applied.  Legislators
and judges who think of copyright or patent law in the category of
"property rights" alter their views in a predictable direction.  He
quotes many examples.

(I think that paper is weak, however, in using the term itself.)

While we take the specific actions necessary to oppose various unjust
powers that are proposed, we should not neglect long-term action to
criticize and extirpate the metaphor that generates them.