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Originally Posted by rcentros
Uh ... if I buy a chair I can sit in it as often as I want. If I buy a book, I can read it as often as I want. When I buy the chair, I pay the person or company who built the chair. When I buy a book, I pay the person who wrote the book. I pay for something they created. Still not following you here.
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But does the carpenter get paid every time someone wants to build a chair that looks like his chair? Does the carpenter get to refuse to allow anyone else to build a chair that looks like his chair? An author's manuscript is his personal property. The copyright of the words in that manuscript are not.