Inception and IP

[Bert_B]

I just saw Inception, which probably is one of the best movies I’ve seen. If you haven’t seen it or don’t know about it, it’s about lucid dreaming. In the movie, inception is planting an idea in someone’s head, and extraction is retrieving information.

Even though this is all hypothetical, what if you were able to extract (steal) information from someone through lucid dreaming, and they themselves were not harmed, nor did they know about the process? Let’s say you were able to retrieve something like blueprints or some confidential information?

How would this work towards IP and the individual? Could you take them to court for entering your mind, or could you also take them to court for retrieving information from your mind (if you know and can prove they did)?

[Prateek_Sanjay]

Obviously, it’s an invasion of something that is clearly YOURS (your own mind), without your consent.

It’s certainly an act of aggression, and nobody in the movie pretended it was legal either.

It’s one of those intuitive things we all know - some things are just outright aggression and need to be punished, whether or not it’s a law on paper.

[DanielMuffinburg]

I don’t see how it is physically possible without trespassing.

[Conza]

I just saw it.

It is bunk - you can’t steal anything.

You can however, drug someone - which is an act of aggression.

[scineram]

@Prateek Sanjay

Obviously, it’s an invasion of something that is clearly YOURS (your own mind), without your consent.

It’s certainly an act of aggression, and nobody in the movie pretended it was legal either.

It’s one of those intuitive things we all know - some things are just outright aggression and need to be punished, whether or not it’s a law on paper.

Nonsense! You cannot own thoughts. They are not scarce or rivalrous. Moreover if it’s through the brain’s electromagnetism then it’s like listening to the radio.

[MaikU]

@scineram

@Prateek Sanjay

Obviously, it’s an invasion of something that is clearly YOURS (your own mind), without your consent.

It’s certainly an act of aggression, and nobody in the movie pretended it was legal either.

It’s one of those intuitive things we all know - some things are just outright aggression and need to be punished, whether or not it’s a law on paper.

Nonsense! You cannot own thoughts. They are not scarce or rivalrous. Moreover if it’s through the brain’s electromagnetism then it’s like listening to the radio.

and you missed the point. No one is talking about thoughts, but a MIND. Your mind is physical. And invasion without consent is clearly a crime, no matter what your opinion is about IP. The similar thing is with computer. If a hacker hacks into my PC, he commited a crime. Simple as that.