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Well this is bizarre. Jamie Love from KEI was over at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a meeting about "global negotiations on intellectual property and access to medicine." The meeting itself was held in a room that it uses for the USPTO's Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA), and there is free WiFi for people to use. Love tried to log onto his own website... and found that it was being blocked as a "political/activist group."
I'm not surprised. It is common to label those with whom one disagrees as disagreeing for "political reasons" rather than addressing their concerns. I'm sure I've made that mistake myself.
When a subject is taken over by government, it becomes something people fight about. No one fights about yogurt flavors, Pepsi doesn't strafe the drinkers of CocaCola. I've not yet heard of a suicide bombing by a BurgerKing devotee at a MacDonald's.
Oh well. I know very well there are positions in the discussion of Copyright law that are considered "political", so I will make none of them.
Hopefully, pointing out the sad fact of its political-ness can still be done at LXer, as this article is doing.
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When a subject is taken over by government, it becomes something people fight about. No one fights about yogurt flavors, Pepsi doesn't strafe the drinkers of CocaCola. I've not yet heard of a suicide bombing by a BurgerKing devotee at a MacDonald's.
Oh well. I know very well there are positions in the discussion of Copyright law that are considered "political", so I will make none of them.
Hopefully, pointing out the sad fact of its political-ness can still be done at LXer, as this article is doing.