Copyright is concerned with the (specific) expression of ideas... by definition if it is in your mind it’s unexpressed. So copyright cannot apply.
I don’t quite follow what you’re worried about...
I don’t quite follow what you’re worried about...
Even patents which protect an idea, cannot be enforced unless there is a concrete expression of that idea.
If knowlege cannot be legally expressed, it's useless and not really yours.
This kind of stuff happens all the time... Patents, are where this gets frustrating, where I can register a bunch of "expressions" of an idea and they get protected from execution... Then Software-patents are even worse in this realm...
- I have the knowledge of how to integrate a fusion plant and warp motor to form a warp drive. The only purpose of this knowledge is a warp drive, therefore I cannot express it.
- I have the knowledge of the fusion plant, and a warp motor, both of which are claimed. I cannot build the fusion plant even if I intend to integrate it with a terrestial power grid. I cannot build a warp motor even if I intend to integrate it with solar cells. There's no other purpose for any of this, so I am forbidden from expressing it.
I'm not seeing another way to define "knowledge" that would allow me to express it despite it being claimed by someone else, so I conclude IP makes knowledge useless.