It's certainly true that we need intellectual-property rights as a way to incentivize innovation and the investment in new ideas — if every new innovation could be immediately copied by someone else, then people would be less likely to invest in innovations.
As Jenkins asked in his revised edition of 1813, "All are at once ready to acknowledge, that there should be a proper standard for pronunciation; …and is it not equally necessary there should be a proper standard to convey our ideas by writing as by pronunciation?" This simplifying approach was immediately copied by nearly every writing manual published in the United States.
This service-based approach was pioneered by NTT DoCoMo with its i-mode service, and was immediately copied by Japan's other two operators.
He was also responsible for the creation of the battleship Dreadnought, the prototype of the "all-big-gun ship" that revolutionized naval construction and was immediately copied by Germany.
Revelations were immediately copied, and then circulated among church members.
In a cultural climate where anything approaching cool is immediately copied, co-opted and commercialized, where can one find what's authentic, vital, and real?
The iconic Victorian cornet was designed and sold initially by the Courtois firm in Paris but was immediately wildly copied ("theft of idea") by many other makers, many as cheap "knockoffs" from 1855 throughout the remainder of the nineteenth century.
It tries to protect products of creativity so that people have economic incentive to keep on creating, so that a new movie, for example, is not immediately copied and resold on Canal Street, depriving the moviemaker of the possibility of income.
It was almost immediately copied by several book collector sites and used without attribution, an unavoidable occupational hazard these days.
