[OT] - does IP exist?

Lars Ivar Igesund larsivar at igesund.net
Sun Aug 17 09:29:21 PDT 2008


Manfred_Nowak wrote:

> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> 
>> "I assert that the intention of keeping a private letter away from
>> other's eyes is no different than the intention of keeping the
>> work private unless someone pay for the right to read/view it. A
>> right to copy it, or sell on to others, would be an additional
>> widening of the authors intention, and still the readers
>> obligation to honor."
> 
> Now, that you have made your statement a bit more complex, you
> introduced new terms  like "author", "copy", "read/view". This terms
> have a fuzzy definition only and I doubt that anyone is able to
> define them in advance and sufficient detail.
> 
> For example the wording does not exclude the case where someone payed
> for the right to "read/view" a work, encrypts it and then publishes
> the encrypted work. This would not violate the right he has payed
> for, because no one can "read/view" the original work. In addition
> the encrypted work might hold marks of his own "author"-ship, because
> he himself wrote the encrypting program.
> 
> Then someone other finds "by accident" the key to the encrypted work,
> "copies" the encrypted work, decrypts it; then spends no look at the
> decrypted work, but feeds it into the appropriate compiler; then
> enjoys the resulting functionality.
> 
> Is this finder of the key allowed
> 1) to publish/sell his findings, because he is the "author" of the
> resulting code/algorithm, which transforms a publicly available peace
> of (des)information into some functionality?
> 2) to enjoy the functionality?
> 
> -manfred

Although it may have appeared that way, I didn't set out to define a
framework that covers all cases. My intent was to show that those
argumenting for all information (however produced and presented) being
freely available, have a bad case as they are likely to have personal
information themselves that they won't like being considered free.

In fact, I bet that most of those asserting their right to copy media from
Pirate Bay, protest the new laws in Sweden removing the right to keep email
conversations private. And that is a contradiction showing their hypocrisy.

-- 
Lars Ivar Igesund
blog at http://larsivi.net
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