There is a real misunderstanding of copyright going round in this thread... it refers to the expression of ideas, entertainment etc in a printed or digital form... it doesn't refer to the physical expression of a device... real objects are dealt with by something called Patents... and you can't patent things you can't make otherwise the late Arthur C Clarke would have been collecting money from every geosynchronous satellite producer as he suggested the idea in print in 1945. It's not copyright holding up your Star Trek and other SF tech, it's inability to do it...
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Originally Posted by spellbanisher
Hey, who are you to say when this thread is done. And how dare you talk about copyright in a thread about...what was this thread about again?
"Star Trek is under copyright yes? But it is also mostly free, at least in some parts of the world. Think of all the technology that has been developed due to copyrighted science fiction, and then think of all the technology that might have been and can still be developed if copyright was done away with and science fiction texts were available to everyone everywhere.
"There's lots of reasons we should do away with copyright, but all we need is one.
Also, yes I am unemployed at the moment, people think I'm weird when I start talking lol. I also think this thread is mostly done..."
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