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To the editor.
Who owns your words?
ALTHOUGH I AGREE with some of what was written in Steve Gillmor's Ahead of the Curve column, I find some of the guest author's statements deplorable(see "We the people").
For example, consider, "Intellectual property is owned by the public and in essence leased to authors and inventors." This sounds strangely like it was taken from the protagonist in Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. The statement is used by the protagonist as justification for changing the design of the "hero's" building. If I were to write a story in which the whole world of that novel is one created by myself, why does Mr. Lynch feel it belongs to the public right from the …
