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Posted by Bill on 02/07/07 20:09
I am perfectly aware of the fact that ideas are not legally protectable.
That is a legal issue which I am not talking about.
I disagree with you that the examples I gave don't involve "stealing" in
a useful sense of the word. You seem to absolutely insist that
"stealing" can only be used in the way that lawyers want to use it in
court. Do you really think that the creators of all those imitation
reality shows didn't "steal" the basic idea from "Survivor". Did I say
anywhere that that means they should be arrested and charged with theft?
Did you miss the part where I said that appropriating existing
concepts and ideas is not a bad thing and is, in fact, an essential part
of our culture, and that the cross-pollination can be a healthy thing?
Geez, Paul, I find your posts are generally very useful and informative,
but not everyone requires a definitive legal opinion on a particular
word usage. And Stephen Spielberg absolutely did steal entire sequences
from "The Bridge". (Is a "sequence" an idea or expression?) There.
Said it again. Does not mean I think he should be sued for it. In
fact, obviously, quite the contrary.
PTravel wrote:
> I told you -- you keep mixing up ideas, which are not protectable, with the
> expression of ideas, which are.
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