[Gllug] GPL

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 12:42:19PM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:
> You might want to carefully consider whether the use of the term 
> "intellectual property" is helpful. Copyright, trademarks and patents are 
> very different areas of law and bundling them together under the title 
> "intellectual propert" can lead to false impressions and 
> misunderstandings.

"Government-granted intellectual monopoly" or just "intellectual
monopoly" is a much more useful term for describing the current
monopolies granted by the government (ie. those for copyrights, moral
rights, trademarks, patents, design rights, etc.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government-granted_monopoly

Rich.

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