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Originally Posted by Giggleton
For all intents and purposes, ideas are copyrighted. Anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to sell you something.
You cannot convince me that the words in a book do not convey an idea into my mind because I am telling you that they do. So you wish to copyright the words and strangle the idea before it has a chance to reach my mind? I must tell you that this is unacceptable behavior for any free society to behave in and thus any society with copyright systems in place is NOT FREE.
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Why would any writer want to spend countless hours writing books if they could not make a living off of it? Asking them to do so would be the same as asking you to do whatever job that you do for free. Would you find that fair?
Thankfully, governments in most societies do not have the same sense of entitlement as you do, because I would hate to see a time when we barely have any new and interesting books because no one is willing to write them.