famousringo said:
thranx said:
famousringo said:
thranx said:
famousringo said:
When almost all economic growth in developed countries comes from the creation, managment and manipulation of information, cutting back on legal protections for information property rights is a hard sell.
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IP laws are for Intelectual Property, not information.
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I"m not sure what kind of hair you're trying to split here.
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Your post just didnt make sense to me. I was trying to figure it out, and wasn't sure if you meant something else. It still doesnt make sense to me.
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IP rights are legal protections put in place to secure the value of information, whether it's a copyrighted print article or a patented technology. With the livelihood of so many people depending on information retaining value, it's a hard political sell to make any move that might devalue information, such as decreasing patent terms.
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I guess i just never thought of that kind of stuff as information in that way. Thanks for explaining it.
