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    11 months ago

    No-one creates something from whole cloth. All ideas are based on things that came before them. Locking those ideas up indefinitely will stifle creativity and stagnate culture.

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      11 months ago

      Locking those ideas up indefinitely will stifle creativity and stagnate culture.

      How? I don’t see any evidence of this. Can you point some out?

      As mentioned elsewhere

      Like, Avatar is the highest grossing movie of all time and is the exact same story as Fern Gully, retold in space.