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Originally Posted by Shaggy
Yes it does. It just protects specific ideas, not general ones. It's still granting monopoly of an idea.
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I'm sorry to disagree with you, but it's
not the idea that's protected, but its concrete expression - as a book, a song, a film, or whatever. Anyone could have taken Ms. Rowling's "idea" about a boy called Harry Potter going to a wizard school called Hogwarts; copyright doesn't protect it until it's written down, filmed, recorded, or whatever. The idea, while it exists only in someone's mind, without concrete expression, is not protected.