RE: [wg-review] 11. IDNH Vote now - all those in favor

[Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

1/13/01 12:37:47 PM, Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com> wrote:

>> From: Sotiropoulos [mailto:sotiris@hermesnetwork.com]
>> But what gives anybody the right to claim that they own the 
>> characters of a language, it's syntax, and semantics?  How do 
>> you own the bits and bytes 
>> that travel through your network?  people pay for the service 
>> of transmission, and you provide that... OK, but what about 
>> the linguistic issue?  Is not 
>> language Public Domain?  
>
>Sure, just the same way that any other fundimental component of
>communications are. However, when organized in a manner that it represents a
>specific idea, concept, or other intellectual property, it becomes the
>property of the one that did the formulation. It is their work-product, no
>one else's. Thus says, international copyright law. Also, that does not
>guarantee right of publication. The author can only publish, what they can
>afford to publish. 

But isn't it censorship when a third party decides what should be put on the "space" initially formulated by somebody else?  if someone tells you that 
although you were the first to understand the importance of the Internet for your business purposes (say 4 years ago), and you formulated a previously 
unformulated domain name, what gives the johnny-come-latelys any rights to dictate what should be done with "your" formulation?  This is the issue, and 
I'm not misunderstanding it, perhaps you are (I don't know).


Sotiris Sotiropoulos
          Hermes Network, Inc.


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