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Originally Posted by JohnGalt
It is the sweat of their brow that makes that material "theirs" to sell to you. This is the very basis of property rights. Locke argued that you and the material become inextricably intertwined with your working of it. The material is God's, or at least communal. It is the imposition of the worker onto the material that gives it value. Therefore there is NO material difference in value between the worth of a work in one medium or another per se.
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So If I take a printed book and by the sweat of my brow convert it into a well formatted epub, is the book now mine to sell?