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In article <RJC.91May5082928@brodie.cstr.ed.ac.uk> rjc@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Richard Caley) writes:
>
>Copyright on music does not stop one writing a similar piece of music
>and recording and selling that. Similarly copyright on books does not
>stop one writing a book with a similar plot. 

Sure they do.  There are lawsuits arguing that plots are too close
and music is too similar every year.

Everyone is running around here screaming "where does it stop?"
Guess what. That's a problem with all laws.  There is no way to
draw a line in the sand that it's going to be perfect.  You create
checks and balances and things will sway back and forth.  Sometimes
it will be lousy, sometimes it will be okay.  It'll never be
perfect.  But of course arguments always force people to the
extremes and those of us who think the middle of the road is just
fine get shunned by both sides.
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.