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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bohandas" data-source="post: 9533684" data-attributes="member: 7015707">Agreed.Ironically I think that a lot of the same people who make arguments like this - that we need IP protections to get bug budget movies, and the pop music industry, and stufd like that - are the same people who criticize AI for being soulless. I don't think they're really concerned about artistic expression at all; I think what they're really concerned with is money.Mary Shelly (Frankenstein), the Bronte Sisters (Wuthering Heights and a bunch of other stuff), Edgar Allen Poe (The Take of Arthur Gordon Pym), Jonathan Swift(???) (Gulliver's Travels), Bram Stoker (Dracula), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), Cervantes (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha), Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol, plus a bunch of other stuff), Alexander Dumas (The Corsican Brothers), the other Alexander Dumas (not sure what he wrote), Victor Hugo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables), the Marquis de Sade (The 120 Days of Sodom), Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch (Venus In Furs/The Legacy of Cain), Mark Twain (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer), Lewis Caroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), and the guy who wrote Journey to the West whose name I don't recall (Journey to the West). I also don't recall who wrote Gargantua or who wrote The Pilgrim's Progress (edit: Bunyan?). (edit: or who wrote Cyrano de Bergerac). (edit: and who wrote Pride and Prejudice? was that also one of the Bronte sisters?) (edit: also Le Morte d'Arthur) (edit: also Orlando Furioso)If we count other novel length narrative works that aren't novels there's also Homer (The Illiad and the Odyssey), Virgil (the Aneid), and Dante (The Divine Comedy). And I forget who wrote Paradise Lost (edit: Moore???). (edit: and Aesop (Aesop's Fables) and the Grimm bros (Grimm's Fairy Tales))</blockquote>

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