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Inalienable Rights.
Inalienable Rights.
Posted Aug 24, 2005 22:56 UTC (Wed) by grantingram (subscriber, #18390)In reply to: Interoperability for games is fundamentally flawed reasoning by FlorianMueller
Parent article: On the defense of piracy enablers
It's an inalienable originator's right. They had to build a whole new stadium in the end. That's the way it is.
"Inalienable rights" are important things like not being subject to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile. Some concern for the integrity of an artistic work is hardly on the same scale.
The debate about "intellectual property" and Copyright would be a lot clearer if we stopped thinking about "intellectual property" as "property" and Copyright as a "right" and thought of them instead as legal mechanisims for encouraging progress in various fields.
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Inalienable Rights.
Posted Aug 25, 2005 15:42 UTC (Thu) by maderik (guest, #28840) [Link]
Inalienable only means that the right cannot be surrendered or transferred. It has nothing to do with the importance of the right -- or if these rights have been endowed by some Creator. Some countries/courts have found that artists' "moral rights" to works are in fact inalienable. However, even then moral rights usually have been discussed with respect to alteration, defacement, or destruction of a work and not mere usage.
Inalienable Rights.
Posted Sep 1, 2005 20:49 UTC (Thu) by zakaelri (guest, #17928) [Link]
How would that bear on the example posed above, then? If I purchase a book, and then proceed to use it as toilet paper... Is that then defacement? What if I purchase, say, a picasso painting and do likewise? Does my purchase of that picasso come with some archaic form of an EULA whereby I can't do what I want with it?
These are but questions... I don't understand how these unalienable ('moral') rights work.