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Old 10-31-2008, 09:45 AM   #205
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Originally Posted by bill_mchale View Post
As for your final point, that is silly; laws by their very definition are part of the public record. They are not copyright protected in the same sense that a creative work is.
Read what I wrote again, you misunderstood it.

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The point here ultimately is that person A does work, person B derives value from that work without person A's permission. Call it whatever you want, it is just plain wrong in pretty much any rigorously argued ethical system you care to mention.
And that is not true. How many ethical systems do you now about except right based systems?

And it is not true in right based systems either.

(True for all possible situations that is).
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