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Cole_Robbie · January 5, 2016

I think the way that intellectual property law fails to protect OP breeders is just ridiculous, considering IP law does protect:

photographs
drawings or paintings
written descriptions

As "creative expressions" under copyright law, those protections are instant, universal, and have no requirement of quality or amount of work and time invested. So someone can steal years of breeding work and sell it as their own....but by golly they don't get to use your pictures! That would be unfair.

January 5, 2016	#53
Cole_Robbie Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Illinois, zone 6 Posts: 8,407	I think the way that intellectual property law fails to protect OP breeders is just ridiculous, considering IP law does protect: photographs drawings or paintings written descriptions As "creative expressions" under copyright law, those protections are instant, universal, and have no requirement of quality or amount of work and time invested. So someone can steal years of breeding work and sell it as their own....but by golly they don't get to use your pictures! That would be unfair.