Sometimes people do, and in any case copyright isn't limited to just verbatim copies. You can't, for example, reuse characters or plots from other works of fict

Sometimes people do, and in any case copyright isn't limited to just verbatim copies. You can't, for example, reuse characters or plots from other works of fiction in your own novel, even if you rewrite it in your own words: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_protection_for_fictional_characters https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_protection_for_fic...