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Skriven 2004-10-26 06:24:24 av Geo (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 1117 av Gary Wiltshire (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Article on WIPO & the public good
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From: "Geo" <georger@nls.net>

I specifically limited the oxygen supply to create a scarce good. If there is
no scarcety there is no need to view it as property. Can't you see this?

IP laws attempt to create scarcety where none exists. If you are unwilling to
allow me to give an example where I've created scarcety with something you view
as a public good then I can't duplicate the IP situation.

Perhaps this will work better, you are going to have a new house built, while
driving around you see a design you like so you copy it or features from it for
your new house plus you add some new features that you think up. Or you visit
my house and see my setup with a video server, KISS box, and TV and decide this
is a setup you want to duplicate except you come up with a few improvements,
maybe making yours wireless. This is how civilization works, you build upon the
ideas of others. You cannot do that if IP is property or if the IP terms are so
long so as to have the same effect as being property.

The IP industry has argued in court that life plus 70 is temporary, but then
what is not-temporary? I mean I can argue the same point proving everything is
temporary in this strict sense because we know some day the sun is going to
explode or because no society lasts forever.

Geo.

"Gary Wiltshire" <gaw@sover.net> wrote in message
news:opsgfoyzw2eipai0@news.barkto.com...
> On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 10:13:36 -0500, Geo <georger@nls.net> wrote:
>
> > Ok fine, every breath I take deprives you of some of the oxygen in that
> > rooms limited oxygen supply. It is still a scarce resource that requires
> > some sort of property system. In the case of breathing outside there is
> > no
> > scarcety so no property concept is required, it really is a public good.
> >
> No, it's not.  Oxygen is continuously regenerated on the planet.
>
> --
> Gary Wiltshire

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