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Originally Posted by odedta
Off-topic @HarryT:
Intellectual property laws discourages innovation, if everybody would go: "Oh you can't use this idea, it's mine and is protected by copyright laws" innovation would be minimized to nothing.
If you wrote a novel, or brought out a great idea in your book / article, wouldn't you like to see it used in different fields and inspire innovation? If you had protected it by copyright laws that would most likely not happen!
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"Ideas" are not protected by copyright; only their concrete expression. "A boy goes to a school for wizards" is an idea, and is not protected. "Harry Potter" is a concrete expression of that idea and is protected, but it doesn't stop anyone else from writing their own books about wizard schools.