I know you are trying to kill this endless thread but the
analogy I have always made about Intellectual Property
in general is that of Indans and White man. Some of us used to roam
around in perfect freedom then the White man
came with his laws, lawyers and barbed wire and now he
has cut up intellectual space into nice tidy little farms ...
When was this "roam free, as free as the birds" period of IP ?
Back in the 60's when I was a graduate student we talked
freely of things we were working on. None of us had heard
of NDA's or were particularly concerned with intellectual
property rights ... granted we were just naive young folks,
not corporate employees, but even in schools now these
issues are big concerns.
Was this becoz of :
a) ignorance or indifference of the law (most students fall under this
category :)
b) few/no lawyers practicing IP protection law
c) there were no IP laws, and it truly was the wild west
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