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Originally Posted by Giggleton
But once something exists how would it even be possible to support its creation, what we can do is support future creations from the same creator, but that is slightly different...
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I think I see what you're saying. Let me recast it in a scenario, and tell me if I've got it or no.
We sit around the fire after it gets too dark to hunt or dig tubers. Some of us tell stories. Sometimes the stories are ones we make up --whether they really "happened" or not. Sometimes we repeat "good ones" that we've heard.
If
Giggleton tells a story he originally heard from me, nobody gives me a drink tonight. But if
taosaur (say) remembers that I've told some good ones, he might invite me to supper in his hut, expecting to hear my new thriller about killing an elephant in my pyjamas.
In the first case,
Giggleton is reproducing a story in the public domain. In the second,
tausaur is supporting the creation of a new story.
[Any names used in this Episode
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