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Why doesn't the same apply to patents too then? What makes a work of art more valuable (in terms of copyright limits) than a life-saving medicine?

• tptacek 16y ago
  That's easy: the patent covers the whole idea and precludes whole avenues of further exploration. Copyright only covers a single expression of an idea.
  • ajays 16y ago
    Then how do you explain the fact that people get sued for "lifting" just a few seconds off a track? Consider this latest case: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8497433.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8497433.stm Having listened to both the songs, I can honestly say they are nothing alike. And yet Men At Work got sued some 20 years later for "infringement".
    • tptacek 16y ago
      No, I won't.