Posted by Denham on December 10, 1999 at 00:09:26:

In Reply to: Re: Stealing knowledge posted by Reilly Atkinson on December 09, 1999 at 13:25:57:

I'm no expert in intellectual property law, so this is not a legal opinion. As far as I'm aware, you would have a very hard time reclaiming your thoughts and opinions if I controlled the medium and you had offered them without coercion in a free and public forum. In many ways this is a grey area, try and regain and retain your purchasing patterns from your supermarket and you will soon see just who owns the data and the medium and who is making money from an analysis of your shopping behavior. Here I assume the store has some way to attach demographics and an unique ID to your barcode bit stream. We are not talking ethics here, but everyday practicalities. Yes stealing is wrong, you would have a tough time protecting thoughts, ideas, opinions that do not have some type of wrapper or novel instantiation and where you do not control the capture medium.

I would be interested to hear all opinions here.

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