Question 0: Why Should I care?

• We have to talk to others.
• We have to understand what we are talking about.
• What does it do?
• What does it do, do?
• Why does it do?

Traffic Light:

• Stop traffic
• So how long do they stay red? For ever!
• but thats not what it is for, that is what it does.

Copyright law:

• It stops copying.
• Not what it is for.
• A bit like a tax.
• owner is the person who takes the tax, not the owner.

Erosion of property

• people want value property, won’t do things with it.
• If unauthorised copying == stealing, then lobbying to remove my property rights without compensation is ???
• Not really a tax. No transfer actually happens. Just destruction.
• Copyright owner doesn’t have access, all he can do is prevent people making copies.

Digital cropburning

• Negative right.
• Destruction of rights normally associated with ownership.

IP Market place

• Is more expensive.
• Does nothing.
• Actually producing stuff is what matters.
• IP Market is parasitic. Takes actual goods from market.
• We hope it will increase market. In practise it may not.
• What is the affect on the market place as a whole?
• It is not a profit, it is a cost to society.

CC-By/Free Licenses

• Restore most of your property rights.
• Owner gives you most of the copyright rights.
• Rights taken are so insignificant user doesn’t care.

Politicians:

• They are shaped like Humans.
• Very frustrating experience.

Intellectual property is a form of property. Real property (power) that has been destroyed. Not an imaginary property, that makes it sound less important, not more important.

Trademark

• reasonably good, need to keep eye on ball as to why they are required.

Patents

• Many flaws
• Temporary Monopoly. Temporary evil.
• Structural flaws. Cannot be easily fixed.
• Plan to extend to 100 years.

Copyright law

• Proposed to have copyright on all property.