--- On Mon, 7/7/08, Brian Munyao Longwe <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Brian Munyao Longwe <[email protected]>
So, I still come back to my earlier point. If I want to sell my Toyota AE-100 - I have a right to 'identify' it using the brand (though the brand does not in itself belong to me) - but I have a 'transient' ownership as far as it relates to 'my' toyota. People even refer to it as Bryo's toyota. Of course once it is sold, it now belongs to someone else.
July 7, 2008. Intellectual Property Regime Stifles Science and Innovation, Nobel Laureates Say By Dugie Standeford for Intellectual Property Watch MANCHESTER, UK - The basic framework of the intellectual property (IP) regime aims to “close down access to knowledge” rather than allowing its dissemination, Professor Joseph Stiglitz said at a 5 July lecture on “Who Owns Science?” Stiglitz, a 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics, and Professor John Sulston, a 2002 Nobel Laureate in Physiology/Medicine, launched Manchester University’s new Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation. Both were highly critical of today’s patent system, saying it stifles science and innovation. Link to the article: <http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1129>