Weblog:		All Property Is Intellectual: Real Estate & The 62 Cent Cracker
Subject:		Ideas are not property
Date:		2005-06-25 16:17:44
From:		SpencerCritchley
Response to: Ideas are not property
It sounds like we actually agree with other on a lot of this, and that I misunderstood your use of the words "ideas" and "implementation". I agree with you that "ideas cannot be property, they are not patentable. But specific implementation of ideas can perfectly be made property with copyright", in your sense that general ideas like passion can't and shouldn't be copyrighted, but a specific piece of passionate music by Mozart can be. The distinction I'm making is simply between intellectual and physical property, and I'm challenging the idea held by some that all information, including any specific piece of music, should be free because of some inherent quality it has as information. I'm saying that we consciously decide what is property in all cases, and that we should decide consciously, not automatically. (And of course people should always be outside the category of property.)

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• Ideas are not property
  2005-06-26 15:06:44  Alkon [View]
  
  

  I think the extreme view that any information is inherently non-proprietary
  just because it is information is simply a misperception of some new business
  models that some industry players tried to push for. It seems to me that
  "information wants to be free" slogan was actually coined in an effort to
  market new business models that give away copyrighted information (like music)
  freely and have revenue collection point somewhere else, but that slogan was
  (and likely was intended to be) misunderstood as if absolutely all information
  is inherently non-proprietary, which would generally be wrong. Nevertheless, my
  point is that generally it still possible to have something that is
  inherently non-proprietary, and that ideas inherently, as well as by
  decision, should not be allowed to become someone's property.

  
  

  Anyway, I am glad that we understood each other.

  
  

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