Thread: Death of copyright, film at 11?
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Old 02-05-2009, 06:57 PM   #96
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Originally Posted by Daithi View Post
Why aren't the inventors of all intellectual property given the same benefits? Consider the mathematics and sciences that are invented, published, and taught in colleges. You can copyright the printed material but the 'idea' itself can't be protected. We don't provide Einstein's heirs with royalty checks everytime a school or book mentions relativity. Newton, Leibnitz, Darwin, Godel, Cantor, et. al. don't get squat. In math and science the 'ideas' are made freely available to the public, and only physical property based on these ideas are provided with property protections.
This then becomes the responsibility of patent law. Years ago patents were applied primarily to a mechanical object, now they are applied for any type of concept including mathematical formulas. (Anyone with a better working knowledge of patent law is welcome to expand or correct this)

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