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Trade secret protection comes closest because you can require confidentiality agreements with anyone who wants to know the idea.

Patents do not protect ideas -- only inventions that incorporate ideas.

Copyrights do not protect ideas -- only the creative work of authorship describing those ideas or an invention using those ideas. However, if you were to misappropriate and publish a description of a trade secret, you could be sued for copyright infringement. Good question of how the "damages" would be calculated, as infringement of the copyright is separate from the value of the "idea".

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