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Originally Posted by The Terminator
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.
3. The work would probably have to be Non-fiction, and written about an event that happened, so others could not use a story that was about that event (E.g WW1)
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, and what about formatting or editing? Or are those things worthless also.
Don't feed the trolls.
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Even trolls need to eat, same as copyright holders.
It appears you are having hard times understanding where I am coming from. This is quite understandable. I sometimes wonder the exact thing.
Why should anyone have the option to stop you from thinking in a certain way? This lawsuit (KINDLE SO) should be simply thrown out of court and the paper used to file it should be composted into a vegetable garden.
1. What of Orphan works?
2. This is where the thinking gets interesting. What is a copyright but a stranglehold on the free dissemination of an idea. What does it matter if Stephen King arranged a certain number of letters in a certain way to create a book? Why should I not be able to arrange the same letters in the EXACT same way to create another book? Letters only hold meaning if we allow them to, taken by themselves they are meaningless, but that is beside the point.
Which is, ideas are just as if not more so important than technological invention, indeed without ideas and the freedom to disseminate them we would have none of this technology. You might say we are free enough, but I am not so sure, and the future is full of possibilities as I am sure you are aware, things such as the length of copyright are always capable of being changed, from zero to infinity.
3. I am not sure what you mean??