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hector
@sim @dolus @why @dtluna @xj9 let me attempt to explain as clearly as possible my point of view, Sim. When someone creates a work, it is never 100% original. The ideas therein build upon the audience's cultural knowledge and draw upon a legacy of other works that can go back for millennia. In that sense, it is part of the cultural heritage of humanity. Yes, the author is given primary recognition for their work in combining and distilling the ideas into a concrete and unified whole, but it is not entirely a product of their own imagination. If it was, no one besides themselves would be able to understand it. Ideas were the original digital files. If I have an idea, and I tell it to someone else, now two people have the idea. It has been copied from my mind to another. No one is harmed by copying because nothing is lost, only gained. The underlying justification for copyright laws, namely intellectual property, asserts that people have ownership…