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It’s hard to ignore the intuitive meaning of stealing an idea, as in stealing the benefit
by pfraze 5y ago
It’s hard to ignore the intuitive meaning of stealing an idea, as in stealing the benefit
- jhgb 5y agoThen you'd have to sue your business competitors if they manage to capture a part of your market. After all you've been deprived by them of the benefit of getting money from that part of the market.
- hiptobecubic 5y agoThis is basically how it works
- inglor_cz 5y agoPeople also say that someone stole their heart, but it does not mean that they have a gaping hole in their chest. Casual use of a language for narrative purposes is one thing, speaking about actual criminal activity another. To be clear, I make some money on my IP (being a self-published author who sells his books) and I encountered people pirating scanned copies of my work. I do not mind on this scale, but I am aware that if someone just started publishing my books commercially and I had no copyright to protect me, I would be in trouble. But it still wouldn't be theft, rather a foul kind of "competition". My physical books wouldn't disappear from my (rented) garage and readers who like me would still hopefully buy them directly on my e-shop.
- ddingus 5y agoThank you. And it's strange, in that you could become relevant and have your audience expanded by the infringers hand. Question there is how to benefit from that...
- Maursault 5y agoThe most sold book in the world, by a large margin, for a long long time, is The Bible. If genetic historians and biblical scholars succeed, perhaps someday the unknown decedents of the unknown authors and other known valid holders of IP rights, such as the decedents of Moses and brothers, sisters and cousins of Jesus, could one day be fairly compensated. But it would end up being everyone alive, so we should do that, fairly compensate all the IP holders for the unpaid use of all that IP, including all the movies and TV shows, and including all interest accrued across the centuries, and literally everyone will get rich off the proceeds of past, current and future Bible sales. Crazy idea, but it just might work.
- bubblethink 5y agoThis meaning of stealing relies on creating artificial scarcity. It doesn't seem that intuitive.