The Dollar is Intellectual Property of the USA
One of my favorite books, "Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown was apparently hijacked. But what does it matter, how can you sue a man for writing your ideas better than you did? What if its a convincingly similar story? How can you sue anyone for stealing what is already out, but making it better? Henry Ford apparently broke patent law in inventing the Model T, even though it made it cheaper and more affordable. And since intellectual property is the new currency anyways.
The way I see it... The US Dollar is the US's intellectual property, we all just trade it around but it belong to the US government and is licenced for a fee. Same with stocks and corporations. Intellectual property is something like a idea of value protected just as stocks, protected just as the dollar. If Dan Brown stole the idea for his great book so what? I don't think the academic paper had any chance of influencing as many people as Dan Brown did.
The way I see it... The US Dollar is the US's intellectual property, we all just trade it around but it belong to the US government and is licenced for a fee. Same with stocks and corporations. Intellectual property is something like a idea of value protected just as stocks, protected just as the dollar. If Dan Brown stole the idea for his great book so what? I don't think the academic paper had any chance of influencing as many people as Dan Brown did.
