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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
They have a monopoly on developing oil under my property. But that does not grant them the right to form a monopoly of all oil production.
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The oil under your property (lucky guy if not hypothetical!) is pretty much the same as the oil under other producing properties in your area. After refining, it's identical to that from properties all over the world. So you do not have an oil monopoly.
But after I read a positive trustworthy review of a book on a subject that interests me, I want to read just that book, not the book your neighbor wrote. And if anywhere close to recent, someone does have a monopoly on that book I want to read. And they should, because without it, most books I read would not be written. And if book monopolies are watered down, the books I like probably would be written, but I doubt they would be as carefully edited and well-researched.
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
(Standard Oil, 1911 SOTUS ruling, the first anti-trust action approved by the US Supreme Court.) Substitute copyright for oil, and you have an exact mirror situation...
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If that's what US law says, I respectfully disagree.