On Sep 2, 2011, at 3:51 PM, SA wrote:
> Copyright on music or prose creates above-normal profit just as much as a patent on a machine does. In both cases profit is higher because the inventor/writer is given a monopoly on production.
Monopoly compared to what? No one else has written my book.
That's rather different from a patent on the 4th iteration on Valium, or whatever they're up to now.
Doug