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Re:Supreme Court rules Georgia state law annotations not cop... by rayiner on Monday April 27, 2020 @06:12PM (#23000716)
How is copyright anti-competitive? If you come up with an original work independently, why do competitor principles require ever letting someone else copy that work? We aren’t talking about limited resources here.
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Re:Supreme Court rules Georgia state law annotations not cop... by gowld on Monday April 27, 2020 @07:01PM (#23001192)
One example is derivative works.

Fanfiction runs into legal trouble with copyrights.

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Re:Supreme Court rules Georgia state law annotations not cop... by majormajor on Monday April 27, 2020 @07:20PM (#23001356)
Are derivative works competitive or anti-competitive? Truly original ideas could plausibly find it harder in that market.
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Re:Supreme Court rules Georgia state law annotations not cop... by henryfjordan on Monday April 27, 2020 @08:03PM (#23001747)
"Competitive" in the context of IP laws means competing to sell exactly the same thing (not 2 different books, or even 2 books from the same genre, but the exact same text). Copyright laws prohibit you from selling a thing I hold the copyright to, so they are by definition anti-competitive. We otherwise might be able to compete on price or availability, for instance.
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