Are my Ideas Really Mine?

This weeks topic is basically about copyright and owning history and ideas. I found this topic confusing for the most part because of how technical it can be. This is also a very controversial topic; who, if anybody, own historical events, documents, and artifacts. While watching the videos and reading the texts, I found a commonality in it all. The issue of ownership is more a legal issue than an ethical or logical one. Let’s say I have an idea, but I do not copyright it or patent it, another man has the same idea some time later and makes money off it, he DID in fact copyright the idea. Who owns the idea? Even though it was my idea originally, it doesn’t really matter because I never had a copyright on it.

This idea that ideas can be owned kind of splits me down the middle. Some ideas I agree deserve credit and the money, however there are just some concepts an ideas that just don’t make any sense to copyright. Let’s say my brother want to have a lemonade stand to make some extra money, and makes his own lemonade. He did not invent the concept of a lemonade stand nor did he invent lemonade, so is he in violation of copyright? These are the situations where this whole topic just confuses me. Usually when I write papers I source literally everything I see, to avoid plagiarism. So I guess my confusion leads me to the topic of my blog, are my ideas really mine?

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