'No One Owns an Idea'
In this time of big Facebook headlines, today's commenter borrowed wisdom from the movie The Social Network to address another set of fighting tech entrepreneurs.
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Chiming in on Jeff Roberts' PaidContent story, which we syndicated, about a pair of former Democratic political advisers suing Arianna Huffington for allegedly stealing their idea for what would become The Huffington Post, commenter kenparcell invoked (more or less) the well-known Mark Zuckerberg line: "If you guys had invented Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook." Writes kenparcell:
This is so silly. The line in "The Social Network" said it the best: "If you had invented Facebook, you would have invented Facebook" (or something like that). No one owns an idea. Execution is everything. If you can get a copyright, trademark, or patent on something, then you can own it.
And it's a good point. Probably a lot of people thought it would be a good idea to create a machine that would allow you to talk to someone else not directly in front of you, but only Alexander Graham Bell gets credit for inventing it.
