{"id":7,"date":"2006-01-20T06:53:33","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T13:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/20\/beware-software-patents-and-ip-in-general\/"},"modified":"2006-01-20T06:53:33","modified_gmt":"2006-01-20T13:53:33","slug":"beware-software-patents-and-ip-in-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/beware-software-patents-and-ip-in-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware software patents&#8230; and IP in general."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, I refuse the vocable &#8220;Intellectual property&#8221;, which let people think that you can own intellectual stuff the way you own a car. &#8220;Exploitation monopoly&#8221; is the real word for what they call IP.<\/p>\n<p>Note that I don&#8217;t despise these monopolies as a whole (I&#8217;m the owner of a few of them myself). Actually, I believe part of the problem is to put things as remote as a trademark, a patent, a song, the recording of the song, etc&#8230; all together in the same bag. Having a clear separation of these very differents rights is, in my non-lawyer humble opinion, a real and interesting challenge for the lawyers of the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--4a5e3439405be03dae3cf20672cfeaf7-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--9cf27f577b7ce1bbff9a3836b992f0e7-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--cd644ff7b7b3aecad69a22312c365c62--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Actually, I refuse the vocable &#8220;Intellectual property&#8221;, which let people think that you can own intellectual stuff the way you own a car. &#8220;Exploitation monopoly&#8221; <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/beware-software-patents-and-ip-in-general\/\" title=\"Beware software patents&#8230; and IP in general.\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-patents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}