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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Harry" data-source="post: 1559485" data-attributes="member: 5468">In the academic world, there exist direct rewards for publishing material.  Due to the importance of peer review in the scientific process, frequent publication is the ideal and there exist mechanisms to reward this that are quite separate from the idea of obtaining direct profit through the sale of the material.  For example, academic tenure depends strongly on the publication rate of a faculty member, thus rewarding the release of the material in a manner completely different from that in the commercial model.   Furthermore, building your work on the work of others is a virtue, but this is not plagarism, and plagarism is most certainly *not* a virtue.  I do not recommend trying to copy someone else's paper and submitting it as your own work; you will find out quite quickly how plagarism is rewarded.  This could simply be sloopy use of language, but the sloppy use of language ("copyright infringement is not theft", "idea vs. processed idea", etc.) has already caused a great deal of difficulty in this thread.   I am not going to address your political ideas, other than to note that your personal utopia, the absence of which seems to justify your actions in your own eyes, is radically different than any of the models that any of us are working in.   So IP should be preserved, but not enforced?    I don't consider myself a grim or pessimestic person, but I am in awe regarding your optimism about human nature.</blockquote>

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