Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > For instance that simian society has always had ways > of restricting access to intellectual property, not > limited to intentional obfuscation, initiatory methods > of knowledge access, and going all the way to the level > of intentionally making the information transmitted > faulty, just so you would have to make the leap of > intellectual discovery as to what precise way the > mechanism in question worked. Copyright *did* in fact > enable people to spell out in full detail what they had > discovered, because they had a reasonable expectation > that even if they didn't only pass on their knowledge to > their apprentices, somebody would protect their ability > to milk it for all it was worth... > What you are describing here is really about patents rather than copyrights. Patents protect ideas on behalf of the exploiters; copyrights only protect the way they are expressed.
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