Talk:Commercial use of copyleft works

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Commercial exploitation of copyleft works differs from traditional commercial exploitation via Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). Exploitation of copylefted works include circumventing the license by gaining only knowledge of the work, or by a model of services--including consultancy and support--for a copylefted work. Generally, financial profit is expected to be much lower in a "copyleft" business than in a business using proprietary works. Firms with proprietary products can make money by exclusive sales, by single and transferable ownership, and lucrative litigation rights over the work.

This is blatantly non-NPOV. The article in general assumes a biased perspective, specifically that commercial use of copylefted works is bad. The article needs cleaning up or deleting. I don't have time this week, but if it's still bad next week I'll take a crack at it. RossPatterson 02:34, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to see this page improved instead of deleted. I have edited the part quoted above to help. Thanks, --Roger Chrisman 06:36, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

My purpose in making the article was to move a bunch of cruft from copyleft which had no sign of being brought back to life, largely because of POV and reference problems. I was not attempting to make a POV fork. Improvements are much needed to this material. Thanks for taking a look into this, Ross. --Ashawley 04:37, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

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If this article is to be removed because as an essay it does not belong in an encyclopedia, please move it to http://Wikiversity before deleting it. Thank you, --Roger Chrisman 06:53, 11 December 2006 (UTC)