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"Microsoft isn't a person, it's a company!""Microsoft isn't a person, it's a company!"Posted Jul 21, 2006 16:28 UTC (Fri) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)In reply to: "Microsoft isn't a person, it's a company!" by kmw Parent article: Free Software Sets the Computing Agenda
Copyright and other intellectual property may be a moral right, in that we believe people have a right to profit from the work they do.
However, the precise amount of profit and the limits of control certainly are mere legal constructs. These are specifics that everyone disagrees with but can usually compromise on.
For example, an artist may have a moral right to profit from a song she has written. However, does she have that right for 25 years or life? What are the limits to what she can charge? Does she have any right to control the uses of her song once she sells a copy?
These specifics are not moral rights.
Copyrights, trademarks and patents have a basis in a moral right to benefit from our own work but the specifics are mere legal constructs. Therefore, xoddam makes no false assumptions.
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"Microsoft isn't a person, it's a company!" Posted Jul 21, 2006 21:15 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] Copyright and other intellectual property may be a moral right, in that we believe people have a right to profit from the work they do. Furthermore, the moral aspect of copyrights and patents are almost never what we're talking about when we speak of copyrights and patents. We're nearly always talking about the laws. Those laws were written with no consideration of a person's moral right to his creations, but rather with a pragmatic social engineering goal. Copyright laws create legal rights out of thin air, with no pretense that they're founded on moral rights.
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