Z:gnu-www-ja-not-ipr--a15351-If you want to think clearly a/en

If you want to think clearly about the issues raised by patents, or copyrights, or trademarks, or various other different laws, the first step is to forget the idea of lumping them together, and treat them as separate topics. The second step is to reject the narrow perspectives and simplistic picture the term &ldquo;intellectual property&rdquo; suggests. Consider each of these issues separately, in its fullness, and you have a chance of considering them well.