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<blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 1592508" data-attributes="member: 2013">Ideas have &quot;intrinsic&quot; value, but have no economic value because if you have an idea, and I have the same idea, neither of us is impoverished.&nbsp; It takes next to zero time and energy to think/comprehend something.Copyright protects the fruit of the labor done in transcribing the naked idea into a relatively permanent communicable medium.&nbsp; The reason?&nbsp; Society benefits by having access to the medium by which the idea is communicated - and thereby, the ability to comprehend the idea itself.You'll note in US copyright law, you do NOT receive copyright on anything you simply say.&nbsp; You have to &quot;fix it in a medium&quot; - i.e., your speech is not copyrighted unless it is recorded (your writing, by contrast, IS fixed in a medium).To use your example, it's not the &quot;naked idea&quot; of a piece of music that has value.&nbsp; It is the recording of the music that allows me to understand that &quot;naked idea&quot; that has value.Copyright is not designed to reward you for being clever.&nbsp; It does not reward you for your ideas.&nbsp; It rather rewards you for taking the time and effort to make your cleverness available to the rest of us.--The Sigil</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Sigil, post: 1592508, member: 2013"] Ideas have "intrinsic" value, but have no economic value because if you have an idea, and I have the same idea, neither of us is impoverished. It takes next to zero time and energy to think/comprehend something. Copyright protects the fruit of the labor done in transcribing the naked idea into a relatively permanent communicable medium. The reason? Society benefits by having access to the medium by which the idea is communicated - and thereby, the ability to comprehend the idea itself. You'll note in US copyright law, you do NOT receive copyright on anything you simply say. You have to "fix it in a medium" - i.e., your speech is not copyrighted unless it is recorded (your writing, by contrast, IS fixed in a medium). To use your example, it's not the "naked idea" of a piece of music that has value. It is the recording of the music that allows me to understand that "naked idea" that has value. Copyright is not designed to reward you for being clever. It does not reward you for your ideas. It rather rewards you for taking the time and effort to make your cleverness available to the rest of us. --The Sigil [/QUOTE]

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