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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Copyright is what protects the raw research notes from being grabbed and published by someone else before the original researcher is done. It also prevents other people from expanding an article into a book without some type of permission.
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I do not think it is copyright that does this. If you steel someones notes and publish it in your name than that seems to me to be some kind of fraud. So why do you need copyright?
Also extending something to a book without telling who has written what seems to be fraud also or plagiarism.