15 Nov
2015
15 Nov
'15
11:56 a.m.
On 2015-11-15 20:37, Paul Koning wrote:
I think we're pretty much on the same page.
Intellectual Property, as I use it here, covers more than just copyright.
On Nov 15, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Johnny Billquist
<bqt at Update.UU.SE> wrote:
...
I personally don't have a problem with copyright. I do have some issues with
"owning" ideas... :-)
That's fine, so do I. Copyright has nothing to do with owning ideas, it only covers
a particular expression of an idea. I suppose the term "intellectual property"
might suggest otherwise, but the rules around copyright are quite clear about this.
(Patents are somewhat different, but they are are far
more limited in time.)
Let's not even go there. Software patents are a quagmire.
Johnny
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