[lit-ideas] Re: What is information?

  • From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:50:24 -0700

Peter Junger wrote:

One problem is that according to the Patent Act, processes are
expressly patentable.  On the other hand, it has always been
understood that mental processes are not patentable.  (The
patentable processes are the ones that make some material
change like curing rubber.)

Would you say, Peter, that by parity of reasoning, there should be no such thing
as copyright, on the grounds that what is being copyright--when you come right
down to it--is an author's mental processes (and not marks on paper or some
other embodied medium?).

Robert Paul
The Reed Institute


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