This is a very important piece. Copyrighting is important. Writers have to eat too.
It always appeared to me that there is a GIGANTIC HOLE in the law of copyrights: The protection of ideas.
Under copyright law, one can get legal protection for prose or poetry one has composed.
However, some writers' prime contribution is not their verbal style and flair. Some writers, first and foremost,
synthesize important and novel ideas. Ideas are not subject to copyright protection.
How does this slaughter unrecognized thinkers:
Example 1:
John Poorman writes a thesis regarding poverty in which he elucidates ideas that have never before seen the light of day.
He submits the piece to a great magazine
The great and pompous publication doesn't want to pay that writer. They don't want a new guy coming into their club. They get another writer, who is part of their circle, to say what John Poorman said using different language. By using different language, they are able to steal Poorman's ideas and Poorman never gets a scintilla of credit
Example 2:
Where do you think Professors get their ideas. More than rarely, a student will turn in a cracker jack term paper. A couple of years later, the ideas in that student's term paper find their way into a professor's scholarly tome.
Of course, we want ideas to spread, to germinate, to be amended and qualified. But why the hell can't there be a legal obligation to give the writer who came up with the idea the credit.
Thanks for the link. I use Grammarly and think it's worth the yearly subscription.
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This is a very important piece. Copyrighting is important. Writers have to eat too.
It always appeared to me that there is a GIGANTIC HOLE in the law of copyrights: The protection of ideas.
Under copyright law, one can get legal protection for prose or poetry one has composed.
However, some writers' prime contribution is not their verbal style and flair. Some writers, first and foremost,
synthesize important and novel ideas. Ideas are not subject to copyright protection.
How does this slaughter unrecognized thinkers:
Example 1:
John Poorman writes a thesis regarding poverty in which he elucidates ideas that have never before seen the light of day.
He submits the piece to a great magazine
The great and pompous publication doesn't want to pay that writer. They don't want a new guy coming into their club. They get another writer, who is part of their circle, to say what John Poorman said using different language. By using different language, they are able to steal Poorman's ideas and Poorman never gets a scintilla of credit
Example 2:
Where do you think Professors get their ideas. More than rarely, a student will turn in a cracker jack term paper. A couple of years later, the ideas in that student's term paper find their way into a professor's scholarly tome.
Of course, we want ideas to spread, to germinate, to be amended and qualified. But why the hell can't there be a legal obligation to give the writer who came up with the idea the credit.