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Originally Posted by Giggleton
On the surface it does appear that patent trolls and copyright holders are different but I am still not quite sure. For instance, you say the patent troll prevents others from implementing an idea, wouldn't Stephen King's copyright holdings prevent someone from implementing an idea (copying King's work) that Stephen King had and filed at the copyright office years earlier?
What I mean is why is literature so different than a technological invention?
Every day we make choices.
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There's a world of difference. If they were at all comparable the copyright holder on a book would have to;
1) Not ever print the book and sell it.
2) They would sue people who had very similar or just used the general premise of the story.
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Authors who copyright their books are not evil, and don't take anything away from people. If all books should have to be free, that means that you assign no value whatsoever to a book, or even a negative value on it, because of formatting or editing? Or are those things worthless also.
Don't feed the trolls.
Back on topic, in my opinion not much will come of this. Or in the most extreme case Amazon will just remove the ads.