Whose invention? 10 examples of misattribution

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The Silberman thread over in General that is currently discussing the role of Kanner and his appropriations of Asperger's work without credit recalled to me the astonishing number of inventions which Thomas Edison appropriated, and these misattributions are still passed down as if they were fact.

What we would now call "theft of intellectual property" is nothing new. This is an interesting list:

http://listverse.com/2009/04/10/top-10- ... nventions/

One of my biggest fear is "theft of intellectual property".

Anyway Edison should be re-evaluated.

No invention stands on it's own, but there's generally one who gets the credits,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativit ... ty_dispute and further dispute

Even Asperger was "reinventing the wheel". He probably didn't plagiarize. But he apparently independently rediscovered the syndrome after it had already been discovered by a certain woman scientist in Soviet Russia 20 years earlier. Can't remember her name off the top of my head.

Between rediscovery and appropriation is a gap so wide..

...in 2015 this problem has reached its zenith with Corporate and Academic espionage being ubiquitous. Anyone who follows InfoSec topics will tell you that there are teams of VERY gifted hackers with the best equip. possible, hacking .gov, .edu, etc... sites everyday. Gov'ts regularly blame China and Russia for this, I'm sure it extends far beyond them.

Intellectual property, A key problem of (future) society as long as the intellectual-property exists like it is, or at all,
and (not-surprising) the whole concept is parasitic in itself.