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Originally Posted by Shaggy
What makes you think anybody should own an idea or creation? There is no natural "right" to own a creation. Copyright creates a temporary artificial right (theoretically in order to encourage more creation).
Assume that two people independently come up with the same creation. IE, they both write the same story or song. Yeah, the odds of that happening are really low, but it is possible. Why does the first one "own" the idea and the second one has no rights, even though they created that idea just as the first one did. The concept of ownership of a thought or an idea (which is where the creation comes from) is just silly.
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But valid. The patent for the telephone was filed only 2 hours before another patent for the same device was filed...