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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
I think it's also important to understand that artists are also the beneficiary of shorter copyright periods. Art tends to be a little bit of creativity and a lot of remixing of expressions you're exposed to, particularly expressions in the same area of art. It's helpful to artists to have more rather than less expressions to reuse and transform, just like it's useful for a carpenter to have more than just a hammer.
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What you say is of course true, but copyright doesn't protect ideas, merely the concrete expression of them. The fact that Rowling wrote the "Harry Potter" books doesn't mean that the idea of writing a book about a boy attending a school for wizards is protected. Anyone can be inspired by Rowling and write such a book; all they can't do is re-use her actual "world", unless they have her permission to do so.