Dr. Dave offers a direct test for arguments about copying intangible work: if you had imagined, produced and built it yourself through a camera, studio, typewriter or computer, would you consider it fair for someone else to take it and profit? The question brings empathy for the creator into a debate often reduced to bits and bytes.
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