Re: FLASH: Ethics on this list

[Laura Mollett]

> No -

> 

> Intellectual property is not secure on a list like this.

...

> Sorry for being a killjoy folks.


You aren't being. It's good advice :) Intellectual property isn't secure

anywhere... ideas aren't copyrightable, or trademarkeable... you can patent

them but only the right kinds and with working models and things of that

nature :) (sometimes you can sell them tho, always handy ;) If there's an

idea you want to protect, only take your chances with a group of people you

know really well (and then prepare to be disappointed - sorry for the

cynacism myself ;). You can't know everyone on an open list really well. And

lots of (them/us) are probably lurkers too :) And parallel development

(independent) is actually quite common and then someone gets mad (that's why

lots of various kinds of publishers won't read unsolicited mss etc.)


Laura


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