----- Original Message ----- From: "SA" <s11131978 at gmail.com>
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.
That's no reason to oppose either, incidentally.
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Really? I oppose both. For the same reason that Jonas Salk gave away the polio vaccine.
Joanna