Re: copyright on house plants?

On 6/29/05, David Dailey <david.dailey[_at_]sru.edu> wrote:
>
> .... If the intellectual
> underpinnings of an idea can be traced back in some unambiguous way (like
> ideational DNA -- should I file a patent now?) ...

Too late! :-) Charles Sanders Peirce already thought of it when he was talking about a concept known as "semiosis" where each idea or expression (formally known as "sign") is built on previous idea or expression (previous "sign") and so on way back to the beginning of the universe. Perhaps, you need to greatly narrow down your claims. :-)

Very entertaining and educational post, by the way.

Joseph Pietro Riolo
<josephpietrojeungriolo[_at_]gmail.com>
<riolo[_at_]voicenet.com>

Number of days left until 1-1-2019 when all knowledge of 1923 in the land of the U.S.A. will be freed from their copyright owners' prisons: 4,932

Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain. Received on Fri Jul 01 2005 - 01:05:55 GMT