[UFO Chicago] Intellectual property
Nick Moffitt
nick@zork.net
Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:24:17 -0800
begin Jordan Bettis quotation:
> Too many times, the argument is that the 'artists deserve to be
> paid' or that the authors 'deserve' something. People think that
> their business model aught to be protected because it's worked up
> until that point. This completely bastardizes the concept of
> Copyright and Patents from being *only* to provide the possibility
> of financial gain as an incentive to create into something of a
> birthright.
Well said, my man.
I may not kill you after all!
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