@bot then we should be able to place a value on it. if you have three marbles and I take them without your consent, then we can say that I stole three marbles from you. but if you have a drawing of a marble, and I look at it and use it as a model to produce 10,000 marbles, could we say that you would have been able to do the same thing if I had done nothing? how much have I stolen from you then? would you have been able to produce 10,000 marbles if I never looked at your drawing? you cannot quantify what I "stole" from you because I didn't steal anything.