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When Europeans steal from Muslims we call it "cultural borrowing" (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] FreeAZ@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Arguable, say someone tells you some amazing idea for an invention they plan to create and patent. You could "steal" an idea by getting a patent and manufacturing it before they get the chance to.

[โ€“] scholar@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The issue there isn't that you've 'stolen' an idea, it's that you've lied about creating the idea.

The reason patents and copyright exist is to artificially create scarcity where there otherwise wouldn't be any. That's not neccesarily a bad thing (because there are time limits after which the ideas are freed), but I think it helps my point.