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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 4915260" data-attributes="member: 13107">There is an point there that I think may be disputed, or at least clarified, and that gets at one of the points of Copyright law.The statement "A man creates an idea" is too strong.  The nature of civilization, and of discourse, makes it very hard to have a completely new idea.  Ideas are framed in a language that has thousands of years of development, and in terms of many many other ideas.  What is due to society for the value of language and common discourse from which the idea sprang?I thought that what was at the heart of copyright law was a compromise between allowing ideas to be freely used, so to not stifle the creation of new ideas, and between allowing control over the expression of the idea, so to promote the creation of new ideas.  Too much control, and the creation of new ideas gets to be too hard.  Too little control, and the incentive to create new ideas gets to be too small.Also, care must be taken when discussing "ideas" and "expressions of ideas".  A young boy goes to school for magical traning and fights an evil wizard.  That is an idea.  Harry Potter going to Hogworts and fights Voldemort is an expression of that idea.</blockquote>