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  • From: "Greg London" <email AT greglondon.com>
  • To: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: CC & other forms of IP -- puzzled
  • Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:58:44 -0500 (EST)


Rob Myers said:
> I'd imagine this is because the CC licenses are designed to cover
> cultural works, not software, which is the only kind of "writing" that
> can be both copyrighted and patented.

If someone drew out the working design of an invention with sufficient
detail that it could be implemented and put that drawing under CC-ShareAlike,
would that be enough to prevent anyone from patenting the invention?

I'm not sure how patent law works in this situation.

It would be good if it prevented patentability of that invention.

It wouldn't prevent patentability of derived inventions,
since that would require patenting the original idea,
but patenting would require money, so preventing the patent
of the original invention for free would be better than nothing
at all.






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