|
|
|
|
#1
12-14-2005, 03:49 PM
|
|||
|
|||
Re: Antitrust: Is there really a point?
[ QUOTE ]
Property rights exist to prevent and resolve conflicts over scarce resources. Ideas are not scarce. My "taking" of "your" idea does not prevent you from using that idea. [/ QUOTE ] Copyright doesn't protect ideas. It protects creations. Patents protect ideas. [ QUOTE ] A "copyright," an exclusive right to copy, implies that *I* cannot take *my* blank pages and *my* pen and write *your* words. [/ QUOTE ] Not exactly. You can do that all you want. You just can't distribute it. 
|
|
#2
12-14-2005, 05:57 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Re: Antitrust: Is there really a point?
Technically speaking, the mere act of copying is a violation of copyright. (See 17 USC § 106). In the real world, no one is going to go after a person who is merely copying (without distribution).
|
|
#3
12-14-2005, 06:53 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Re: Antitrust: Is there really a point?
[ QUOTE ]
Copyright doesn't protect ideas. It protects creations. Patents protect ideas. [/ QUOTE ] There's no difference between the two. In either case what is being protected is a pattern, and arrangement of symbols, in short, an idea. [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] A "copyright," an exclusive right to copy, implies that *I* cannot take *my* blank pages and *my* pen and write *your* words. [/ QUOTE ] Not exactly. You can do that all you want. You just can't distribute it. [/ QUOTE ] Regardless, such a right diminishes my rights to my tangible property, which I can distribute in any fashion that I see fit to do so.
|
 |
|
|
Hybrid Mode
