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Axel Boldt  said

>Ok, let's start with the premise that whatever is in your head is
>yours. You will grant me that whatever is in my head is mine. So as
>soon as you tell me about one of your ideas, it enters my head and it
>becomes mine. (It's still in your head as well, so it's also yours.)

This is not true in intellectual property law. You probably
wouldn't want it to be true of "common sense" if you examined
it a little more closely. Simply knowing something is not
sufficient to make it yours. You could "fixate" it thus becoming
the copyright owner or you could patent the process. However if
you are an employee you will probably find that your employer
owns the rights to your ideas in most circumstances :-).

>If you want to claim exclusive property rights to an idea, you cannot
>tell it to anybody.

Rubbish! If you want to claim rights you *have* to make it
public. The alternative is to keep it as a "trade secret"
but then you are only protected against people who obtain
the idea from you. If they develop it independently - tough.
If you could claim rights to something you'd merely thought
of I would be richer than Bill Gates. Unfortunately the
only ideas I've written down were the crap ones :-(.

>Anything else would mean that you claim property
>rights to parts and structures of somebody else's body.

This *has* happened and *is* happening. Human DNA for example...

				Mike

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