Re: Knight and Public Domain

[don ohmes <d_ohmes@yahoo.com>]

> On Thu, 5/15/08, Bob Tess <bobtess@dinoart.com> wrote:


> > On May 15, 2008, at 6:42 AM, Mike Taylor wrote:

> > [...] but it does show that
> > any analogy
> > with the law of physical property is at best
> > uninformative and usually
> > actively misleading.

> I vehemently disagree.  Copyright is a property right and
> is defended  
> as such in court.

Absolutely! And the framers of the aforementioned US Constitution were quite 
clear about private property...

An important if rarely mentioned point: intellectual property rights cannot be 
protected w/out protecting privacy rights as well; it is entirely possible 
these days (even easy) to steal and publish proprietary information as fast as 
it is created.  

Don