Re: the godlike power of IPR owners

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Matt Blaze <mab () crypto com>
Date: April 7, 2007 6:56:36 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net, dpreed () reed com
Subject: Re: [IP] the godlike power of IPR owners


On Apr 7, 2007, at 18:29, on IP, David P. Reed wrote:

> Apparently, an amendment pushed by RIAA and MPAA to a California  
> bill against pretexting (pretending to be someone to deceive  
> someone into giving you that person's private info) is asking for  
> an exemption of owners of copyrights, patents, trade secrets, etc.
>
> http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pretext7apr07,1,1936238.story? 
> coll=la-headlines-business&ctrack=1&cset=true
>
> We have seen this before, granting IPR owners the rights to invade  
> computers, install viruses, etc.
>
> Though it bothers me greatly that IPR owners get a special deal  
> (but owners of jewelry, for example, do not, though they might want  
> to find a thief, too), I am particularly bothered because it is so  
> easy to become an "owner of IPR".
>
> In fact, this email is IPR, born copyrighted to me.   So I guess I  
> don't need to worry about pretending to be someone else (or obeying  
> any other law the RIAA doesn't like to be constrained by).
>
> The IPR bar should be ashamed of itself.


And especially ironic is that this proposed exemption would seem to  
cover
the very circumstances of the incident that prompted the bill in the  
first place:
in which a corporate board member was being investigated for a suspected
intellectual property violation (disclosing HP's trade secrets).

-matt



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