The Microsoft Short Film Competition
Can (or should) thoughts be owned in the same way as physical objects, or are all thoughts ultimately the product of “standing on the shoulders of giants” and therefore belong to noone but the human race itself? Discuss.
Trying to see the positive to the former half of this question, I would feel pretty annoyed if a big corporation (or even a small one) saw the ideas I’m currently working on and created something from them that I considered evil. Especially if I didn’t have the resources to create a non-evil version and theirs was the only one which survived. The only way to prevent them using my ideas would be for me to have some power to prevent them using them, i.e. ownership.
I guess it’s how Einstein felt about Nuclear weapons.