[107421] in Cypherpunks
How patents can subvert copyright ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ernest Hua)
Wed Jan 13 18:40:29 1999
From: "Ernest Hua" <hua@teralogic-inc.com>
To: <hapgood@pobox.com>, "Robert Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: <dcsb@ai.mit.edu>, "Digital Bearer Settlement List" <dbs@philodox.com>,
<e$@vmeng.com>, <cryptography@c2.net>, <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 15:23:01 -0800
Reply-To: "Ernest Hua" <hua@teralogic-inc.com>
It seems obvious that the next thing to do
is to patent certain categories of publications
used for making money (e.g. all books sold).
It would be interesting for someone to patent
"self-help" books, let's say, if that person
was the first known publisher of self-help.
I am sure that the "xxx for Dummies" guy could
patent the use of that class of books as a
method of attracting a certain segment of the
market place.
It just goes on and on, this insanity ...
Ern
