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Originally Posted by HarryT
No disrepect, ficbot, but you have a strange idea about copyright. Copyright doesn't protect ideas; it protect concrete expressions of ideas. "A boy going to a school for wizards" is an idea, and anyone is free to use it. "A boy called Harry Potter going to a school called Hogwarts" is a concrete expression of that idea, and you're not free to use that. Copyright does not stop you from writing your own book about boy wizards.
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Depends on how closely it resembles Harry Potter and Hogwarts...