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This Essay Breaks the Law
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| Published: March 19, 2006
| By MICHAEL CRICHTON
Posted on 03/20/2006 9:56:09 AM PST by Grig
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To: Caesar Soze
Shoot, I just dumped all over Michael Crichton without even realizing it. Still, I'm sure he learned about this stuff at some point pursuing his MD....
To: Grig
I just (R)egistered the word "pattented" and intend to maintain it's (C)opyright for the next 18 years!!!
BTW you can't patent bump since the "speed bump" has been public domain since Achilles dragged "Hector's" body 'round the walls of Troy!
Psst, if you didn't see the movie, Helen is played by Diane Kruger who is one hot chick!
To: babygene
I'm copyrighting the notes "C" and "E". Somebody already copyrighted silence. I'm not kidding. Four minutes, 33 seconds of silence to be precise.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
So there is no debate on the proper role of "intellectual property" laws? Did I say there wasn't?
The point is, if the company that made this discovery hadn't anticipated a profit, we wouldn't know about the relationship between B12 and homocistine and wouldn't have the benefit of that discovery.
If you want that information to be free to all, then buy it and give it away if you want. If you want the government to buy it, then by all means, call your Congressman.
Do you think a design is property but information isn't? Do you think people who do the hard work of discovery and take the enormous risks to put ideas into practice don't deserve to profit by it? You want the benefits of someone's labor but don't want to pay for it?
You bet there's a debate. Covetousness is so old that we have a Commandment against it.
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posted on
03/20/2006 10:25:54 AM PST
by
Carry_Okie
(Barah, yetzirah, assiyah)
To: Grig
I think I will patent the word "is", if I can just figure out what it means.
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posted on
03/20/2006 10:25:54 AM PST
by
IamConservative
(Who does not trust a man of principle? A man who has none.)
To: babygene
As I understand it, ideas and facts specifically CANT be patented. Neither can recipes or mathematical formulas. Facts and recipes (as facts) can't be copyrighted. It used to be that mathematical formulas (scientific truths), and with them computer programs, couldn't be patented, but that went out the window in the 1990s when some judges thought it was okay.
To: pankot
I just pattenended the "F" word and I'm gonna be richer than all of you! The good news: The membership of DU owes you about $10,000,000.
The bad news: Do you have any idea how long it's going to take to raise $10,000,000 out of pizza delivery tips and welfare checks?
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posted on
03/20/2006 10:29:10 AM PST
by
steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
To: pankot
I just pattenended the "F" word and I'm gonna be richer than all of you! Bad news pankot, I have no idea WTF pattenended means but I do know that I patented the "F" word so it belongs to me.
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posted on
03/20/2006 10:31:20 AM PST
by
tx_eggman
(Islamofascism ... bringing you the best of the 7th century for the past 1300 years.)
To: babygene
I'm copyrighting the notes "C" and "E". Copyrights last longer and I'm going to make big bucks from the record companies.
Fine - but you'll have to call them something else. I'm trademarking the letters "C" and "E", which have prior use, and then I'll just file a lawsuit prohibiting you from using them as note names, because of the potential for confusing the consumer.
To: Grig
I just patented the use of posts on FR. Now all you guys, pay up!
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posted on
03/20/2006 10:32:28 AM PST
by
OB1kNOb
(America is the land of the free BECAUSE of the BRAVE !!)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
The Earth revolves around its spin axis, the line between the North and South poles.Nope. It rotates about its axis.
To: antiRepublicrat
Somebody already copyrighted silence. I'm not kidding. Four minutes, 33 seconds of silence to be precise.
Technically, it wasn't silence - but a lack of musical notes being played. The performance consists of the ambient noise in the auditorium, which in and of itself is not silence.
To: Aarchaeus
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posted on
03/20/2006 10:35:33 AM PST
by
null and void
(Sept 11th: National Moderate Muslim Day of Tacit Approval)
To: Carry_Okie
Covetousness is so old that we have a Commandment against it. As I said, the original intent of intellectual property law was to encourage innovation, now it actually discourages it.
When did you obtain your law degree?
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posted on
03/20/2006 10:37:59 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam Factoid:After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers, Muhammad raped them.)
To: beezdotcom
Now that I know who you ar- I point you to post #11 on this thr-ad:
I will n-v-r pay a dim- for th- right to us- th- l-tt-r -.
That go-s for your oth-r l-tt-r ^ as w-ll (pronoun^-d s--) ... give it your b-st shot b-zzdot, I'll go liv- in a ^av- b-for- you'll profit off of m-.
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03/20/2006 10:38:31 AM PST
by
tx_eggman
(Islamofascism ... bringing you the best of the 7th century for the past 1300 years.)
To: tx_eggman
It is good work. The people that use the incorrect spelling are the least likely to contest the request for royalties for the use of the misspelled word.
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posted on
03/20/2006 10:38:47 AM PST
by
doc30
(Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
To: doc30
It is good work. The people that use the incorrect spelling are the least likely to contest the request for royalties for the use of the misspelled wordIt's a sham- I don't hold th- pat-nt for thinking outsid- th- box, you'd ow- m- mon-y
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posted on
03/20/2006 10:41:25 AM PST
by
tx_eggman
(Islamofascism ... bringing you the best of the 7th century for the past 1300 years.)
To: Aarchaeus; Lonesome in Massachussets
Nope. It rotates about its axis. And it revolves in its orbit about the sun. Take it from an orbit guy: "revolution" is the term we use to denote "once around the orbit," which in turn is usually described in terms of the motion between successive upward crossing of a reference plane (e.g., the equatorial plane for Earth orbits, or the Ecliptic for sun-centered orbits).
"Orbit" is too imprecise a term, as it can mean a lot of different things, depending on context.
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posted on
03/20/2006 10:41:48 AM PST
by
r9etb
To: beezdotcom
The performance consists of the ambient noise in the auditorium, which in and of itself is not silence. But his estate sued another composer who did his own minute of silence, not simply playing a recording of the previous 'work.' About the only connection was a joking reference to the original composer in the credit.
To: Grig
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posted on
03/20/2006 10:48:57 AM PST
by
Junior
(Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
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