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johnnyanmac on June 28, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: No One Is in Charge at the US Copyright Office

I don't think anyone is gatekeepign ideas. There's plenty of them, they're a dime a dozen.

Implementation: yes, that should be protected. People seem to not like that here, though.

welder on June 29, 2025 [–]

Patents are gatekeeping ideas. Two people come up with the same idea independently but one gets a patent and keeps the other from using their own idea.

Copyright is protecting from copy pasting the implementation of the idea.

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