The Statue Of Limitations has probaby expired by now. Nonetheless, I can prove that the CBS Television Network stole my idea after I submitted it to them several years before it first aired--as a pilot for their popular TV Series "Touched By An Angel."
2007-03-18 03:50:05 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
Because it is always cheaper to steal than to buy! :)
Besides corporates have never been the symbols of moral and principles!
2007-03-18 04:02:29 · answer #1 · answered by smarties 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Corporations are in business to make money, not spend it. Stealing, while completely wrong, is much cheaper than buying.
If you really did come up with the idea for "Touched By An Angel", you shouldn't have waited so long to do anything about it but, you sitll might want to contact a lawyer. It may not be too late.
2007-03-18 03:59:15 · answer #2 · answered by Bob 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Large corporations seldom knowingly steal peoples ideas..
Stolen ideas are usually the result of some individual within
the corp. presenting the stolen idea to upper management and claiming it as his own...
2007-03-18 03:59:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because that's how Corporations become large.
2007-03-18 03:53:44 · answer #4 · answered by Vivagaribaldi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, you want to call it an "invention", no longer an "concept". ideas won't be able to be patented; concepts can. there is an massive array of issued and enforceable patents that are new and non-obtrusive improvements to present day concepts, patented or no longer, with trademarks and copyrights. in case your invention qualifies as "new and non-obtrusive" then you definitely have a suitable to personal the patent on it. you won't be able to, even if, "prepare" your patent with assistance from making, utilizing, promoting or importing it till to procure any mandatory license from proprietors of different patents, trademarks or copyrights targeted on making your invention artwork. In different words, they could't prepare YOUR patented progression invention with out license from you and also you won't be able to prepare THEIR invention (as area of yours) with no license from them, plus in spite of copyright and trademark permission you should favor. operating example, a patented attitude to getting an internet site person click a unmarried button to signal they favor a purchase order (patented with assistance from Amazon); additionally they personal the copyright of the utilizing that implements it in the HTML and their servers; additionally they personal the "ONE-click" trademark. you should, in concept, arise with a sparkling and non-obtrusive progression to the way their software works and procure a patent on your progression. the in person-friendly words extremely powerful thanks to guard an "concept" is to shop it secret. Patents are courses. the first time you take advantage of your invention in public is oftentimes a public disclosure. examine up on the concept and form of a Non-Disclosure settlement (NDA). Many businesses have regulations that limit everybody from signing this kind of element for an unsolicited "concept", with the intention to prevent accessible an infection of their personal concepts (i.e., you won't be able to later declare they "stole your concept" in the journey that they were already engaged on something similar besides, yet they under no circumstances said your disclosure).
2016-11-26 20:25:47 · answer #5 · answered by gilberte 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
think about it!! stealing from small fries is FREE.
it's likely 2B how the BiGcorps became so BiG in the first place
...it's a DOGeatDOGworld
GRRRR!!!
2007-03-18 06:02:18 · answer #6 · answered by rapunzel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the one word answer
GREED
2007-03-18 06:05:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋