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Comment Re:Play stupid games (Score 1) 132

With software it's quite easy to claim you have never seen the source code and have worked from just a spec you have received.

Not so with things like stories and music, those have evolved over a long time and if you just looked far back enough, then similarities would be found that would stick in a court. And you can't claim to have grown up independent of human culture, someone like that would function on the level of a chimp.

Comment Re:Play stupid games (Score 3, Insightful) 132

>If I write a book I want every dime of profit resulting from my work forever. It's my work,

In a world with infinite copyrights your book would be found to be derivative or earlier works, and the ownership would not be given to you, but instead to parties that have inherited the rights to works written thousands of years ago.

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