Human Rights
Miguel is talking about human rights, and mentions Palladium as being an example of governments not working on behalf of the people. First, Palladium is attempting to be a market solution to issues (privacy and intellectual property) that would otherwise be solved through more government regulations. Second, the universal declaration on human rights, which Miguel urges us to read, clearly says that all human beings have “the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.” That sure sounds like intellectual property to me, and not the sort of “copyleft” envisioned by GPL.
I have to admit, though, I can’t quite understand the meaning of the right described as “Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.” It sounds like a duty, and a threat (”you’ll lose your personality unless you perform your duty to community”?), butnot a “right”. I prefer the American “Bill of Rights” any day.