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In Defense of Copyleft

[Paul Lambert hat recht. --AHH]

http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,41679,00.html

In Defense of Copyleft

by Karlin Lillington

8:35 a.m. Feb. 7, 2001 PST

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Software that is placed under "copyleft" -- as opposed to copyright -- may be in a legal limbo and is still reliant on the concept of copyright, an Irish legal expert says.

But during a legal seminar Tuesday in Dublin on "Copyleft and Open Source Software: History, Applications and Legal Issues," Free Software Foundation founder and principle GNU developer Richard Stallman argued that the concept of copyright is inappropriate to the digital age and restricts freedom and innovation.

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However, Paul Lambert, a lawyer with LK Shields Solicitors in Dublin, argued that even with copyleft "as a fundamental concept, copyright remains, because copyleft can't work without copyright."

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