On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 09:32 -0500, drew Roberts wrote: > > > So, you are whistling a new tune in your room with the windows open. Jack > > > is walking by and hears some of it. It is catchy and he starts to whistle > > > it as he walks along. John standing at the bus stop a few blocks away > > > hears it as Jack passes. He too starts whistling the melody. He gets on > > > the bus whistling. All of the bus riders hear at. When they get off the > > > bus at their various stops they whistle it. Etc. In the absence of > > > copyright law, do you really think you have some power or right to > > > prevent this situation? Some right to be compensated by all of these > > > people whistling without your permission? And this is something that isn't seldom. It often happens that people independently have the same idea, resp. the same antenna to receive the idea, that is transcendental drifting in morphogenetic fields ;). I don't believe in esoteric such as morphic resonance, but I know that people can independently have the same idea. Btw. girlfriends sometimes worried that some famous artists might have stolen music I composed. They know songs I composed years before those artist released nearly equal songs. I replied usually that it might be, that those artists might have released a composition from their grandparents, that already was composed before I was born. Btw. a typically female thought. Men just play a song and if another one plays this song too, they don't care about it, men usually even don't need to mention, that it's their composition. For men the gratification was to compose the song. That's not sexism, it's simply the truth ;p. Creative people always will have new ideas and it can happen that some ideas are identically or other people had the same idea years before. There never ever was a connection between those people and the idea wasn't published. This happens very often. We aren't completely unique. The world will go on, even when we all are dead. At the first go I only can imagine that some parts of the theories of relativity are something very special, that precise formulated as they are. Without Einstein we perhaps still need to wait for some important knowledge. But most impressing things I can imagine are ideas different people had at different places. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
