> 4. What if someone publishes a book with all your content and makes a million dollars off it? This is why the public domain does very much exist. Even though

> 4. What if someone publishes a book with all your content and makes a million dollars off it? This is why the public domain does very much exist. Even though the author may have placed his work into the public domain, so that anyone can copy it freely, he still remains the author and another person can not copyright his text without his permission. Just as nobody can copyright the works of Shakespeare. This is why it is important to make a distinction between a natural concept of authorship on one hand, and the unnatural and confusing commercial constructs of 'IP rights' on the other hand. As Richard Stallman correctly says, there is no such thing as 'IP rights' because nobody can even define them. There is just a bunch of different monopoly licences. Monopolies, on the whole, are a bad thing.