António 'Gap' Campinos Explains His Plan to Indoctrinate/Brainwash the Public About So-called 'IP' (Misleading, Vague Term, Also a Deliberate Misnomer)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2021-09-01 16:25:11 UTC
- Modified: 2021-09-01 23:11:48 UTC
"It has become fashionable to toss copyright, patents, and trademarks—three separate and different entities involving three separate and different sets of laws—plus a dozen other laws into one pot and call it “intellectual property”. The distorting and confusing term did not become common by accident. Companies that gain from the confusion promoted it. The clearest way out of the confusion is to reject the term entirely. "
--Richard M. Stallman
2014 Tony:
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2013 Tony:
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Summary: António Campinos, back then at OHIM/EUIPO, is talking the typical propaganda about "IPR-intensive industries" (joint propaganda with Benoît 'Vichy' Battistelli and a convenient lie we've remarked on many times in past years); he also works on perception manipulation, just like large corporations are using schools or schoolteachers to brainwash children for Hollywood, using grossly misapplied words like "piracy" (Campinos uses that word in the interview). We've noticed that he keeps talking about "gap", even several times in succession; not much has changed since [1, 2] (Gap-pinos).
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