Comments on: Should we really give Apple, or any patent-holder, ownership over human gestures? https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/should-we-really-give-apple-or-any-patent-holder-ownership-over-human-gestures/2012/09/04 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Tue, 14 Oct 2014 14:58:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 By: Elisa https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/should-we-really-give-apple-or-any-patent-holder-ownership-over-human-gestures/2012/09/04/comment-page-1#comment-493105 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:37:58 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=26121#comment-493105 This is interesting. You sound a little like Piaget;-)

It is interesting to consider the gesture languages used by those deaf individuals who are not taught or exposed to sign language. They are without a language, yet there are interpreters who are able to interpret their gestures fluently & respond even upon first meeting them. These interpreters are deaf themselves, but interpret to sign language which is then interpreted to speech. (Most cases of the languageless here are in recent immigrant families, so often English, in this case, is then interpreted to the native language of the family in cases of group dialog. This is a long process.)

If gestures can be recognized by people w/no prior exposure… can they be considered the intellectual property of any one entity?

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