From: Michael B. Hubbard (mbhubbard@home.com)
Date: Sun Jan 28 2001 - 09:56:16 MST
I was not aware of that. Coming up in music and songwriting classes I was
told it was potentially useful. I can pass that on to my musician friends.
Thanks,
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: selling an idea
> "Michael B. Hubbard" wrote:
> >
> > Take a look at www.ideas.com. They actually have an idea marketplace on
the
> > web that is frequented by some large corporations. And the simple act of
> > publishing it on the web can be enough to prove copyright. The other
thing
> > you can do short of registering the idea with the US copyright office is
put
> > your written idea in an envelope and mail it to yourself. The postmark
is
> > proof of when you created the work.
>
> This is called a "Post Office Patent" and it *does not work*. Not
> acceptable in court.
>
> -- -- -- -- --
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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