Jack Straw' View

[Owen Blacker]

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Unless I'm much mistaken, most of what I would otherwise consider
Intellectual Property (IP) law tends to be covered under Copyright law
over here, at least in England and Wales...  Does anyone with better
(ie any :o)  legal experience know more specifically -- I'd be quite
interested to know more, though it's prolly me moving further off
topic (again), so feel free to mail me off list...


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Owen Blacker
Senior Internet Developer and InfoSec Consultant, pres.co
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From: "Brian Gladman" <brian.gladman@btconnect.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 11:37 AM


> > In article <005501bfe2ee$b2caeb40$6cf186d4@owenras>, Owen Blacker
> > <owenfb@easynet.co.uk> writes
> > >theft of something as fthereal as data (be it an
> > >encryption key or otherwise) is surely still theft.
> >
> > I don't think theft of information is a concept we have yet. But
IANAL
> > etc.
> 
> I discussed the concept of information ownership with Nicholas Bohm
> (privately) a couple of months ago and it does seem that this is not
a
> concept that is recognised in law.
> 
> But what the law says cannot deny the correctness of concepts in
other
> contexts (the law can say pi = 3 but this does not make it so for
> mathematicians).
> 
> I certainly support the concept of information ownership (and hence
> information theft) in a number of contexts.

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