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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm sorry, but you're just not "getting" the fundamental point - that writing a book is just as much "work" as doing any other job, and to try to use 300 year old ideas of "limited monopolies" to pretend that it isn't is a completely outdated concept. The law needs to be changed to grant the creators of intellectual property the same rights as the creators of "physical" property.
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So basically you're saying you want to keep the idea of copyrights, which dates back 300, but you want redefine it so you don't have to deal with the whole concept that led to its creation.
That's convenient, I must say.