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Re:Negotiators Lose Last Chance to Salvage the TPP by Caving... by rayiner on Thursday February 05, 2015 @04:54PM (#9006405)
> I suppose you could say created in the head of each person exposed to them.

I created Harry Potter, not J.K. Rowlings? My labor in reading the novels is equal to her labor in writing them?

I think that argument falls flat particularly with copyright because there is no copyright liability in the face of independent creation. Copyright doesn't prevent anyone from owning their original ideas, even if other people independently think of the same idea.

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Re:Negotiators Lose Last Chance to Salvage the TPP by Caving... by CamperBob2 on Friday February 06, 2015 @12:42PM (#9010282)
Just curious, have you ever read any Joseph Campbell? He does a better job explaining my "You didn't build that" argument than I can.
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