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Owning ideas - A Guardian Essay

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  • 20-11-2005 3:49pm
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    It's a long, carefully measured piece and in it, Andrew Brown emphasises that ideas are now 'owned,' citing Amazon's patent that, "covers getting shoppers to review the things they have bought on its web site" and that "Microsoft is trying to patent XML, a way of writing computer files that is fundamental to the operation of modern business" as examples.

    The boom in the intellectual property market will not reap rewards for us all
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1646125,00.html

    Net Zero means we are paying for the destruction of our economy and society in pursuit of an unachievable and pointless policy.



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