Can we really create a law for stealing intellectual property of someone? I guess the answer is NO. I am going to quote one true story. Just few days back, I was talking with one of the most admired professor of our college. It led to interesting discussion of intellectual property. He has guided lot of PhD and M.Tech students through out last decade.
What he said during that chat was thought provoking. He had guided one student way back on particular project which was cutting edge research (unlike so called copy paste M.tech projects in India!) in that field. It was professor's original idea. Student did his project and left the college. Now, on some occasion of international conference they both met at same place. Student was doing some great work on the same idea, which was originally given by his guide. He had discussed the same idea with some professor form more reputed college, where he could have got funding easily and he did got it. when they started discussion on that idea, student intentionally avoided it.
Professor did wanted to do research on that idea, but couldn't do it because of unavailability of funding. In mean time, that student- new professor pair got funding for the same idea!
How easily one can steal ones idea and enjoy sitting on cake of success. Everybody can't go to court for these type of problems.
As old philosophy says, morality is the base of all good and bad decisions.
What he said during that chat was thought provoking. He had guided one student way back on particular project which was cutting edge research (unlike so called copy paste M.tech projects in India!) in that field. It was professor's original idea. Student did his project and left the college. Now, on some occasion of international conference they both met at same place. Student was doing some great work on the same idea, which was originally given by his guide. He had discussed the same idea with some professor form more reputed college, where he could have got funding easily and he did got it. when they started discussion on that idea, student intentionally avoided it.
Professor did wanted to do research on that idea, but couldn't do it because of unavailability of funding. In mean time, that student- new professor pair got funding for the same idea!
How easily one can steal ones idea and enjoy sitting on cake of success. Everybody can't go to court for these type of problems.
As old philosophy says, morality is the base of all good and bad decisions.
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