Not entirely. It's also about protecting your ability to profit exclusively
from what is exclusively yours - this is about what is exclusively ones own
to claim as one's own. This applies to art because we sometimes wonder if
it's an idea uncopyrightable) or a mechanical arrangement of ideas
(copyrightable.) Once your "ideas" become WORTH something, this becomes an
issue, believe me.
DJ
>Tue, 3 Jul 2001 found Don Joyce writing:
>
>->>As Jefferson wrote of copyright, "Its peculiar character,
>->>too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other
>->>possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from
>->>me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as
>->>he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without
>->>darkening me."
>->>
>->>One may not copyright a title or an idea -- "an idea" is
>->>NOT a completed, thought out, intricately arranged
>->>BODY of ideas called a song. I, personally, don't think
>->>Jefferson would have confused the two.
>
>She's just engaging in semantic quibbling, and missing the
>essence of the Jefferson quote, which is that when you make
>a copy of a piece of "intellectual property", you don't lose
>anything. you still have your copy. that's the fundamental
>thing about copyright.
>
>smh
>
>
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