Apparently, tea party thinking does not value our tradition of free expression of ideas as the means to reach better results.

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Copyright law protects the expression of ideas but not the ideas themselves.

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Copyright only protects the expression of ideas, not the ideas themselves, so the ideas may be freely reused by competitors and others.

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Our goal was to create an architecture that would facilitate the expression of their ideas.

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As for the claim that exhibitions contribute to knowledge, the practice of having catalogues that cause no offence hastily written by committees usually discourages original research or the expression of controversial ideas.

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"They've put themselves on the side of free expression, to let the battleground of ideas have it out, " he says.

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For many, the vote was an expression of ethnic solidarity, rather than an endorsement of a set of policy ideas.

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Pirate Party UK - which is not affiliated with The Pirate Bay - said it created the proxy website as an act of "freedom of expression" and to support "the right to share information and ideas without interference and that censorship is never the right answer".

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In particular, fictional characters within a work are presumed to be simply ideas unless they are sufficiently developed to legally constitute elements of expression.

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