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Originally Posted by Timo
What is Intellectual Property?
A capitalistic attempt to control the spread of ideas. In ancient times, there was no need for this, but for the sake of argument, if the Phoenicians copy-writed the Alphabet, the greeks would have continued to use the troublesome Linear B Script, based on syllabary and logograms. Though even Linear B is a blatant rip-off of Linear A Script. Hell, would the early hominids even have been able to develope tools, if the first person to make a tool, copy-writed it, and sued all that tried to copy it.  
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In that case the whole world except China and Japan would be obliged to pay royalties to the ancient Egyptians, viz. to their descendants, the Copts, for the usage of all sorts of alphabets, which are ultimately (allegedly, it hasn't been proved beyond any doubt) derived from the hieroglyphic script.