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Who asks:Do they [Common Dreams] have some sort of ideological belief that refuses to recognize copyright ownership or something?
You already know this, but as a libertarian I frequently bump into 'tarians and anarchists, of either left or right persuasion, who utterly reject all intellectual pty protection. Now certainly, copyright can be abused, and has been -- it should not last past a writer's/artist's expected lifetime, if even that long. And fair use should be liberally applied.
But there are those folk who think my original idea and/or the way I state it, yours, or anyone else's, should just be ripe for taking. I part company with many confreres on this issue.
