Julien Blanc wrote:
Le 2026-02-20 15:09, Peter Dimov via Boost a écrit :
It can't be correct, because if it were, you wouldn't be able to produce a non- infringing work either, if you have ever been exposed to a copyrighted one; the exposure has altered your mental state, so your output is tainted by definition.
IIRC, some employers are forbidding their engineers to look at their competitors' patents for this exact reason : they don't want to be accused of some sort of plagiarism / patent infrigement if their engineers come to a solution that is too close from the patented one.
Yes. This by the way doesn't work. It's only a defense against willful infringement (which carries triple damages) and not against infringement in general. That's why I said that preemptively forbidding things is almost always counterproductive.