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USA 29 April 2007 Richard
USA
29 April 2007
Richard Stallman*
THE COPY/SOUTH READER RESPONSE PROJECT VS. WIPO'S IP DAY
I've been campaigning against unduly restrictive copyright law and its effects for almost 24 years, and I applaud your critique of copyright law and actions to call it into question.
It was good that you focused on copyright, resisting the tendency to lump copyright law together with other very different laws (This tendency is spread by the term "intellectual property").
I would like to suggest one further thing you can do to help others resist it too. Namely, you could point out that the term "intellectual property" spreads bias and confusion, and urge people to reject that term as well as what WIPO says about it.
* See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html for more explanation of this point.