If you can't protect the trade secret with secrecy, then it doesn't deserve to be secret. Legal protections have shown, time and time again, that they fuck over

If you can't protect the trade secret with secrecy, then it doesn't deserve to be secret. Legal protections have shown, time and time again, that they fuck over inventors, creatives, and artists, in favor of encumbents seeking to consolidate power. The current environment strangles remix culture nearly to death. To say nothing of greedy artists claiming ownership of a concept of notes. I thought you couldn't copyright an idea?