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Originally Posted by MarjaE
Barbara musn't print a book just like it, that'd be infringement.
So when people say that material property and intellectual property should be treated the same way, I'm left wondering why?-- it's not like they're the same thing-- and how?
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They aren't the same thing. But they are a lot closer to "the same thing" than "your ownership evaporates after a certain amount of time" advocates would have it.
In your own example - two people write books. How hard is it to not write "the same book"? If you write a book with characters named Harry Potter and Hermoine going to wizard school at Hogwarts....you didn't just HAPPEN to infringe copyright. You were COPYING.
And chairs are covered by trademark and copyright. You can indeed "make your own chair" and it be too much like someone else's work.