Owning ideas
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1646125,00.html
The boom in the intellectual property market will not reap rewards for
us all
Andrew Brown
Saturday November 19, 2005
The Guardian
The difference between ideas and things is obvious as soon as someone
hits you over the head with an idea - so obvious that until recently it
was entirely clear to the law. Things could have owners and ideas could
not. Yet this simple distinction is being changed all around us. Ideas
are increasingly treated as property - as things that have owners who
may decide who gets to use them and on what terms.
Intellectual property
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/7d30ef0cfd57a9a4
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