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 Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:41 am
Does anyone know if there is a International Law that protects idea's and concepts?
I was watching a trailer for the Skeleton Key when it said that the writer of "the Ring" wrote the Skeleton Key.
But the guy they listed was a American writer and "the Ring" is a stolen concept from "Ringu" a Japanese movie.
Is Japan or other countries more lack on idea's? I think that it is horrible that someone, from cooperate America, can come in and take someone else's idea without having to either pay them for it or get fined/arrested.
It just makes me mad is all. Thanks! heart
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 10:20 am
Well, frankly, there are supposed to be international laws that protect against idea/invention thefts and those are patents. However, each country has their own idea of what is supposed to go into a patent - hence we still have problems over idea/invention theft.
~Technically, if a person does not put a patent on their idea, it's up for grabs legally. Morally wrong, of course, but the idea is if a person wants to protect their idea they should do all the legal obligations necessary.
~The problem there is that a patent is seriously expensive - thousands of dollars if not more, and it has to be renewed when the contract is up.
~Also, some countries don't honor patent restrictions from other countries. A good example is China and Mexico. Often they will have knock off items from America or other countries, and as long as their item is different by 60% they are in the clear. Like the Dora the Explorer pinata - the shape is just like her but they change the facial expression and the color of her pants. I know that they have been trying to work out stuff with other countries, but I don't know how that's been going.
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Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 4:55 pm
Hm. I have heard those figures before but I didn't know as much about it as you do. All I could remember for certain was that there was a difference between countries and that was how it was hard to keep a pin on it.
Also is the concepts that people feel differently about "Ideas." In Japan, an idea is something that you can't necessarily own personally, and it belongs rather to the community. An Idea/Concept isn't the same as a product there. Here, they're very very very closely entwined. The owning of an idea, thought, desire, whathave you, is a very western concept.
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Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:53 pm
My ideas are not patented. I have no way of proving they're mine after they come out of my mouth so if someone were to use them, tough noogies for me. I think that aspect of it kind of sucks. Especially for artists and inventors and other people who create things. They have no rights to their own stuff unless they get a patent or use a creative commons license, and even that only protects you a little.
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