The Myth of Big Companies Stealing Others Ideas

“Picasso had a saying 'good artists copy, great artists steal’. 

According to Kirby, “no-one starts out original - we need to copy to build a foundation of knowledge and understanding”.

For example, Hunter S Thompson retyped the whole of The Great Gatsby just to get the feel for writing a great novel.

Big Companies or People steals others ideas because they are uncreative and lack the aptitude to dream and act on their own dreams. It is much easier to copy that to rationally think of something on their own. Also because that there is low chances of loss in investing into others idea and high chances of profit that is why big companies steals others ideas.

When someone re-packages your idea and gets all the glory, it is my experience that they are now out of moves.

But sometimes these companies caught red handed in the act of adopting/stealing others ideas.