"Master, these silly copyrights! If I have to explain Pythagoras' theorems, I must have an authorisation from his descendants, and how about Darwin, Semmelweiss and so forth?"
"Indeed, the world is topsy-turvy in all respects. Copyrights
are plain murder of all science. The stupidity is caused by the
thinking that an idea is a physical entity, therefore can be given away, sold,
or stolen. If some scientist has a (beneficial)
good idea and he does not want others to know, he can keep
silent, can't he? If he decides to speak, why should someone
else ask him permission to induce the same idea in others? All
the while it is as plain as a pikestaff that one who gives
(???)(away) an idea does not lose one, but gains just as the
receiver. Then, an idea is only the triggered-off result of
ALREADY existing ideas in the other, so, where is the possession?
Is there anything at all more indicative of the Non-physical
Nature of ideas?"