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Comment Photos of another occuanace (Score 1) 93

A few years ago a yacht crew took photos of a volcanic island rising out of the sea. http://yacht-maiken.blogspot.com/2006/08/stone-sea-and-volcano.html

I was about to go on a sailing trip when I saw the photos and although there was no chance of seeing something similar in the Mediterranean it did get me excited about the amazing things you can see on our planet.

Comment "Intellectual property" is a silly euphemism (Score 1) 506

The term 'Intellectual property' was adopted as a more sympathetic term by the World Intellectual Property Organization in the 60's to replace the previously used phrase "industrial entities who've had the contours of their regulatory monopolies violated".

There are a number of good articles by Cory Doctrow on intellectual property and digital information in general but basically he argues that we have to recognise the differences between knowledge and property or face 'an endless war between intractable positions of ownership, theft and fair dealing.'

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