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From: |
Yavor Doganov |
Subject: |
trans-coord/gnun philosophy/software-literary-p... |
Date: |
Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:10:08 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /sources/trans-coord
Module name: trans-coord
Changes by: Yavor Doganov <yavor> 08/02/07 21:10:08
Modified files:
gnun/philosophy: software-literary-patents.html
Added files:
gnun/server : footer.bg.html footer.html header.bg.html
header.html
Log message:
Automatic sync from the master www repository.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/trans-coord/gnun/philosophy/software-literary-patents.html?cvsroot=trans-coord&r1=1.1&r2=1.2
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/trans-coord/gnun/server/footer.bg.html?cvsroot=trans-coord&rev=1.1
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/trans-coord/gnun/server/footer.html?cvsroot=trans-coord&rev=1.1
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/trans-coord/gnun/server/header.bg.html?cvsroot=trans-coord&rev=1.1
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/trans-coord/gnun/server/header.html?cvsroot=trans-coord&rev=1.1
Patches:
Index: philosophy/software-literary-patents.html
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--- philosophy/software-literary-patents.html 6 Feb 2008 12:18:31 -0000
1.1
+++ philosophy/software-literary-patents.html 7 Feb 2008 21:10:07 -0000
1.2
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
then Minister for Industry, how France would vote on the issue of
software patents, Devedjian responded with an impassioned defense of
copyright law, praising Victor Hugo for his role in the adoption of
-copyright. (The misleading term <a href="not-ipr.html">
+copyright. (The misleading term <a href="/philosophy/not-ipr.html">
“intellectual property”</a>, promotes this
confusion—one reason it should never be used.)
</p>
@@ -58,12 +58,13 @@
</p>
<p>
-Consider the novel, Les Misérables, which Hugo wrote. Since he wrote
-it, the copyright belonged only to him—nobody else. He did not
-have to fear that some stranger could sue him for copyright
+Consider the novel, Les Misérables, which Hugo wrote. Since he
+wrote it, the copyright belonged only to him—nobody else. He
+did not have to fear that some stranger could sue him for copyright
infringement and win. That was impossible, because copyright covers
only the details of a work of authorship, and it only restricts
-copying. Hugo had not copied Les Misérables, so he was not in danger.
+copying. Hugo had not copied Les Misérables, so he was not in
+danger.
</p>
<p>
@@ -86,7 +87,7 @@
</ul>
<p>
-If such a patent had existed in 1862 when Les Misérables was
+If such a patent had existed in 1862 when Les Misérables was
published, the novel would have infringed all three claims, since all
these things happened to Jean Valjean in the novel. Victor Hugo could
have been sued, and if sued, he would have lost. The novel could have
@@ -104,8 +105,8 @@
</ul>
<p>
-Les Misérables would have infringed that patent too, because this
-description too fits the life story of Jean Valjean. And here's
+Les Misérables would have infringed that patent too, because
+this description too fits the life story of Jean Valjean. And here's
another hypothetical patent:
</p>
@@ -124,7 +125,7 @@
novel. They overlap, but they do not precisely duplicate each other,
so they could all be valid simultaneously; all three patent holders
could have sued Victor Hugo. Any one of them could have prohibited
-publication of Les Misérables.
+publication of Les Misérables.
</p>
<p>
@@ -151,15 +152,16 @@
</p>
<p>
-Other aspects of Les Misérables could also have run afoul of patents.
-For instance, there could have been a patent on a fictionalized
-portrayal of the Battle of Waterloo, or a patent on using Parisian
-slang in fiction. Two more lawsuits. In fact, there is no limit to
-the number of different patents that might have been applicable for
-suing the author of a work such as Les Misérables. All the patent
-holders would say they deserved a reward for the literary progress
-that their patented ideas represent, but these obstacles would not
-promote progress in literature, they would only obstruct it.
+Other aspects of Les Misérables could also have run afoul of
+patents. For instance, there could have been a patent on a
+fictionalized portrayal of the Battle of Waterloo, or a patent on
+using Parisian slang in fiction. Two more lawsuits. In fact, there
+is no limit to the number of different patents that might have been
+applicable for suing the author of a work such as Les
+Misérables. All the patent holders would say they deserved a
+reward for the literary progress that their patented ideas represent,
+but these obstacles would not promote progress in literature, they
+would only obstruct it.
</p>
<p>
@@ -274,7 +276,7 @@
</p>
<p>
-Copyright © 2005, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+Copyright © 2005, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
</p>
<address>51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110, USA</address>
<p>Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are
@@ -285,7 +287,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2008/02/06 12:18:31 $
+$Date: 2008/02/07 21:10:07 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
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