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Difference between patent and copyrightDifference between patent and copyrightPosted Jul 14, 2012 0:08 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)In reply to: A casualty in the patent wars by Seegras Parent article: A casualty in the patent wars
(patents are not a monopoly granting you a right to do something; they grant you a right to keep everyone else from doing it. BIG difference to copyright) What difference do you see? Copyright grants an author a monopoly on copying his work. It grants him the right to keep everyone else from copying it (or publicly performing it or preparing a derivative work). Copyright doesn't give the holder any right he wouldn't have in the absence of copyright.
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Difference between patent and copyright Posted Jul 19, 2012 3:24 UTC (Thu) by SEMW (guest, #52697) [Link]
I think the 'big difference' Seegras refers to is that, unlike copyright, patents work equally well against someone who actually copies an invention and someone who comes up with the same invention completely independently. Unlike copyright, whether they actually plagiarised it doesn't matter. So patents give you a monopoly in a much stronger sense.
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