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Originally Posted by Giggleton
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??
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Sorry about #3, I was a little vague. What I meant was, that if someone made a non-fiction book about WW1, the book is going to start and finish the same way no matter who writes it.
2. That's just flawed, the letter's didn't just happen to go that way. If you want to go into that, then what is code? Just a bunch of numbers, letters and symbols, so should someone else be able to sell Windows or Mac OS?
1. I think we can agree a bit here, I think that out of print books should be free or cheap. Because if you can't buy them as an ebook or as a new paperback the author isn't getting any money anyway.