For instance, anyone is free to use information included in a book about how the brain works, an article about the life and times of Neanderthals or a TV documentary about the childhood of President Clinton -- provided that that they express the information in their own words. ... For example, the author of the book on Neanderthals takes ten years to gather all the necessary materials and information for her work. ... But after the book is published, any reader is free to use the results of this ten year research project to write his or her own book on Neanderthals -- without paying the orig...

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Information can qualify to be property in two ways; patent law and copyright laws which are creations of federal statutes, pursuant to Constitutional grant of legislative authority. In order for the government to prosecute the unauthorized copying of computerized information as theft, it must first rely on other theories of information-as-property. ... For example, AThe information must be secret, Anot of public knowledge or of general knowledge in the trade or business, a court will allow a trade secret to be used by someone who discovered or developed the trade secret indepen...

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