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Originally Posted by HamsterRage
Now let's say that I came up with a cool idea to build a house that made it bigger on the inside than on the outside (kind of a Tardis house). That would be something that I would use IP laws to protect. The idea. Not the house after I built it, but against the happening of someone visiting my house and going, "Oh! That's how he does it", and making and selling his own houses bigger on the inside than the outside.
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No, again that's not an idea; it's a PROCESS, and that's what patent law (as opposed to copyright law) is there to protect. And once again, you can't patent an idea. You can't protect the idea the it would be cool to have a house that's bigger on the inside that on the outside, but you can patent a practical method of building such houses.
We always end up at the same end result: that it's only concrete things: stories written down as books, or practical methods for building Tardis houses, that are legally-protectable intellectual property. Mere ideas are not IP.