Ed Felten: Misleading Term of the Week: Rights
Ed Felten, Freedom To Tinker: “In practice, the “rights” being managed [by [DRM] systems] are really just rules that the copyright owner wants to impose; and those rules may bear little relation to the parties’ legal rights. Cloaking these restrictions in the language of “rights” makes them sound more neutral [...]. [Another common misuse is] the use of the term “rights holder” to refer to copyright owners (but not to users) [which implies] that the rights of the copyright owner are more important than those of the user.”