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Taking the original of a painting from your house is stealing. Copying is only potentially violating the government-granted limited-time exclusivity that allows you to decide who can copy your work.

BTW I hereby allow you or your browser to copy this comment into your computer’s RAM.

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It's telling that you need to fall back to non-creative information in your argument.

Clearly we're talking about the labor of creating a written or visual work, not the contents of your ram. I did not use the word copy either. My interpretation of the parent comment is that it was rationalizing by claiming all creativity is not fully original and therefore must have no rights.

Extrapolated further, this is a collapse of creative works as a profession.

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