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Worldwide Copyrights a Quagmire?

http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,43820,00.html

By Declan McCullagh

2:00 a.m. May 16, 2001 PDT

WASHINGTON -- Richard Stallman has a simple message for the U.S. government about a proposed copyright treaty: Don't even think about signing it.

Stallman, the bearded, irascible creator of GNU Emacs and a spokesman for the free software movement, showed up at a U.S. Copyright Office roundtable on Tuesday to warn that the draft measure would imperil American programmers by encouraging frivolous software patents.

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