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"Here in Canada we take the term fairly seriously (it's copyrighted)." Wow, I can understand a tweet being a creative work and therefore copyrightable, but a s
by ab9 16y ago
"Here in Canada we take the term fairly seriously (it's copyrighted)."
Wow, I can understand a tweet being a creative work and therefore copyrightable, but a single word?
- russss 16y agoIt's not copyrighted (of course you can't copyright a single word), but it is a protected term. You're not allowed to use it unless you're qualified. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_over_the_term_Engineer#Canada http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_over_the_term_Eng...
- _delirium 16y agoSeems strangely Orwellian (in the sense of his politics-via-language writings, not the police-state kind of Orwellianism). It's a descriptive word that long predates these organizations, so it's sort of weird for them to retroactively take ownership of it. I can see specific, narrower terms, like Professional Engineer or Licensed Engineer, but engineering is just a description of a kind of activity that people have done for millennia, and an engineer is someone who does it.