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Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine)

Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine)

Posted Jan 15, 2007 22:47 UTC (Mon) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
In reply to: Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine) by khim
Parent article: Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine)

To protect your 'copy-right' from other people. The government is always a special case because it gets to write the rules that you have.


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Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine)

Posted Jan 16, 2007 9:44 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Indeed. Copyright is an artificial *government-imposed* (theoretically) temporary monopoly, just as patents are. There's nothing innate about it.

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