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Originally Posted by 420
I'm not sure if I understand what intellectual property actually means. If my neighbor tells me his secret recipe for lets say pork chops. I copy his recipe and his wife likes my pork chops better. So much that she gets a divorce and marries me. Does my neighbor go to the police and tell them I stole his intellectual property and his wife?
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You're obviously no rocket scientist.
IP in the form of copyright is a work created by someone which is then protected by copyright law regardless of the format in which it is published.
Software, Video, Books, Unique Ideas, Newspaper Articles are all examples of IP which can be communicated using several different mediums - they all enjoy the same protection no matter what the medium is.