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Originally Posted by kennyc
Yes copying my property is theft if it is done without my permission. The ideas I create and instantiate are my property, it is my right to share or not just as I would with land I own or physical products of that land.
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It would be interesting to know by what moral doctrine your ideas are your property.
Some questions: If you use an idea in your "property" (say a story) that originated elsewhere (say, the idea of "gray goo", or teleportation), is it still your property? Can I use teleportation, and does that idea then become my property? How specifically "yours" does an idea have to be (from a moral perspective, there is legal precedent for this, actually)?