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Originally Posted by Catlady
IDEAS are not copyrighted.
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In your world, would transmitting books orally be ok? If so, why not transcribe a book and then read from it to another person?
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Originally Posted by Anke Wehner
Would you argue that a writer sending out review copies of a dead tree book to get the word out about their new work is being unethical, and if they do that they should send a free book to anyone who asks, ever? Because that's the same principle. With ebooks having no material costs, giving away a large number of free copies to people fishing for publicity is feasible, where giving away a large number of paper books would require rather more up-front investment and involve a greater risk of loss..
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In a way yes, the network has the capability of destroying all barriers to knowledge, we are barely taking advantage of its possibilities. The book as was mentioned is the manifestation of an idea. It would be in our best interest to reward the best ideas in order to foster the development of more ideas. I suppose it's similar to karma here on mobileread
To me, saying that you can't have this idea until you pay for it is absurd. On a similar note, is an idea in digital format actually expressed? Or is it so ephemeral that expressment has not yet been achieved?