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Originally Posted by Mortis
I understand you are not stealing anything tangible, but what if you saw the plans for a great plane and built it, calling it your own design, you stole the idea right?
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Well...no. The idea is still right where it was before so no theft occurred.
What I can say, is that it's fairly easy to say that there was something ethically wrong (and most certainly illegal) if the plane was then sold or used for profit. However, if the plane was never, say, fueled up and flown it would be much harder to find something ethically wrong.
To my mind, that's why there are separate laws covering theft and copyright infringement. It's not black and white, and the greyness isn't something you can just ignore.
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Copyright is there to protect ideas.
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Not the way I see it. Copyright is there to protect a person's ability to profit from their ideas. Is that a subtle detail? I don't think so.
No way!!!
You don't get to say, "There you go, I win!" and shut down the thread. The Internet doesn't work that way.
It's always the most persistent, pig-headed jerk (like me) that gets the last word in.