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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
The "special protection" is that the author gets to keep the copyright after selling the work. Without copyright law the situation would be like selling a chair: you make the chair/write a story, trade it for money, and if you want to make more money you make another chair/write another story.
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Perhaps; but it may be more like: You design and build a chair, the chair making companies consider your chair, most don't think much of it but a few think it could sell to the chair buying public, because of the "special protection" you can sell the right to make copies of your chair to one of the chair companies, the other chair companies, (because of the "special protection") would be prevented from making copies of your chair/design. You and the chair company you sold the rights to, make more or less money depending on how many chair buyers purchase your chairs. If your chairs really catch on and dominate the chair market, all the chair makers will want to make and sell that chair design, but (for a time) they are prevented from doing so by the "special protection".
Luck;
Ken