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Changing the legal framework around intellectual property doesn't stop it from being intellectual property.
by deadmetheny 7y ago
Changing the legal framework around intellectual property doesn't stop it from being intellectual property.
- wolfgke 7y ago> Changing the legal framework around intellectual property doesn't stop it from being intellectual property. As I wrote under https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20811544 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20811544 "Geheimnisverrat" applies to leaking confidential data (e.g. trade secrets, but not copyrighted works that are publicly available).
- deadmetheny 7y agoIntellectual property does not mean 'copyright', it broadly refers to any sort of creation that isn't physical in nature. Trade secrets are legally enforced differently than copyright in the United States as well, but they are both forms of intellectual property.