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Originally Posted by fjtorres
More general: Too many people arguing against IP rights "on principle" arepeople who never created anything worth copyrighting or patenting.
The typical curve on the matter is exemplified by the chinese position: for years, the Chinese government did nothing to protect foreign IP. Once their companies started developing original (and valuable) IP, suddenly China got real interested in protecting IP rights at home and abroad.
The same happened with the Manhattan publishing Houses: they had no respect for foreign copyright when their's had little to no foreign value. Once that changed they became copyright zealots to the extreme.
It's all a function of whose ox is getting gored and who is getting a free ride.
In Oracle vs Google? No clean hands, no heroes.
And, again: the story isn't over. This can still blowup in everybody's faces.
Both sides have deep pockets and despise each other.
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The copyright doesn't apply to book titles which is part of the book; witness the many book titles that are the same. So why isn't book titles part of the copyright if the book is supposed to be "original"?
Any software that is copyrighted should have to prove that it is original & that no one has come up with it or used something the same way in the whole world. How many programmers solved an internal business problem & told the boss that the method should be copyrighted? How many programmers on the planet earth ever thought of even having any part of their code copyrighted when working on their job as per specs?
The copyrights & patents is only given on who applied for the copyright or patent first. Apple should not have gotten free with the mouse just because they used a single button instead of 2 buttons. Wonder if the auto companies have patented the gear shift patterns......Apple disregarded the trademarks of another country's company with the iphone & got away with it as the USA has more guns than Brazil.