Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing

Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by ttoinou on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:17PM (#20811317)

   just because that work was "creative"?

That's where the IP theory all falls down. Originality or uniqueness doesn't exists, creation is all about recreating from what you learned from others. Creation is stealing in a moral and respectful way. Protecting your creations with IP laws is immoral and unrespectful against your public and previous artists you took from

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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by rayiner on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @01:10PM (#20812059)

That's a straw man. Copyright doesn't prohibit someone from learning from your work. It prohibits (in the US) five specific acts: reproduction, preparation of derivative works, distribution of copies, public performance, and display. You don't need to be able to define a work of purely unique expression. All you need to be able to do is define when a work is sufficiently original that it's not a derivative work or reproduction.

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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by ttoinou on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @01:16PM (#20812123)

1. Protecting with IP ¡= Copyright

2. I didn't say Copyright prevents others from learning

3. A work is never sufficiently original, it's always a derivative

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