[ThinkDifferent]

Ideas are property.

So if you have an idea, I can't have the same one?

[bvw]

Oh it's worse than that. He may have an idea -- say a song, a jingle -- and spend ten gadzillion dollars marketing it so that everywhere you go you hear it, yet if you ever happen to sing it in a public place -- it's to the pokey with you! Watch those thoughts! Best become a deaf mute and chop off one's hands rather than risk violating our copyright law!

[Right Wing Professor]

Funny thing is, the 'ideas are property' idea really isn't his, it belongs to the 'intellectual property' extremists of the movie and music industries. Blatant case of theft, if you ask me.

Ideas are blancmange. Now that's mine.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

If I think (invent) something first I may share.