[OT] - does IP exist?

[Yigal Chripun]

Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:

> 
> Wow, bad example. Copying a chair is indeed illegal and proven to be so in
> court. Take the Stressless chair by Ekornes as an example.
> 

are you sure you can put copyright on chairs? that sounds very strange
to me. I don't know the details of your example, but are you sure it
isn't about patent law rather than copyright law?
i.e the original creator patented some design idea (which is
information) and so the restriction is on that design idea rather than
the chair itself. you cannot copy the chair only as a consequence.