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Originally Posted by ZodWallop

In a way, yes. Since after all he has been accused repeatedly of stealing other comedian's jokes, I would say that plenty of other people have already stood up and recited 'his' lines and gotten laughs.

Also, you are taking this all too seriously.

To the first, he stole other comedians jokes (if he did). So it's not just anyone standing up and reciting the lines.

To the second, sure. But not entirely without justification. vrf did ask "Still, ethics conversations always intrigue me. By what standard is it wrong, in your eyes, to casually speculate about what lawyers and publishers might do with the manuscripts of a dead writer?", so I added my support to what Harry was saying ... along with a more relevant comment about the real difficulties involved in removing all copies.