Thread: People try to club them together

But at times, people do try to club them together ...

The first thing to realise is that copyright and patents have nothing in common; they are totally unrelated laws. What one.af them does, the other one doesn't. So, in particular, if someone starts making statements using 'intellectual property', that is a sign of confusion, because that term attempts to generalise several different laws (copyright is one of them), when all these laws have nothing in common.

So, whatever that person says is pure confusion; it is nonsense. And this nonsense is being passed off as meaningful. But, most people don't know it is nonsense, so they repeat the nonsense. There are also people who know how wrong it is, but they use it and then they justify it. There are a lot of others who are simply trying to mislead other people. It is in their interest not to have other people understand these issues.