Nature uses a technique called copyleft. The idea of copyleft is that it is copyright flipped over. Where nature have the copyright but it is in the way that it is open to all, it gives the permission to analyze, it gives the permission distribute the knowledge, it gives the permission to change and add new things. When we redistribute the knowledge it should be under above conditions only. This is the hidden theory beyond the human advancement and this is the philosophy Richard Stallman exposes in free software movement.
Share the knowledge. Hiding the things what we learn is proprietary . . !