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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
You just finished reading a book from one of those thieves that are too uncreative to create their own world and characters. Please be careful what you wish for. Most everything you read today is based on something else created previously. Forever copyrights are counter productive.
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No, Tolkien didn't steal what others wrote. He started with myths and legends and created completely new and unique characters from them. He also created a completely new and unique world and a completely new and unique history. This is nothing at all like some hack thinking he can write another story about Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit. Or a book like the "New Adventures of Strider."
"Based on" legends is nothing at all like directly stealing a writer's characters or world. It has NOTHING to do with copyright, this is a red herring. If we're talking about basing stories on someone else's work — just about every "high" fantasy book that has come out since the
Lord of the Rings would be "guilty" of that.
And why are "forever copyrights" "counter-productive?" Are you saying that writers SHOULDN'T have the imagination to create their own world's and characters? Isn't that what writers are supposed to do?