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Philosophy - The Morality/Immorality of Intellectual Property
Well, the outcome would have not been different if his stuff was public domain. Then any idiot would have been able to write anything in his universe, but the sheer amount of stuff would cancel itself out. As a fan of HPL and Dune I can attest, we have literally had C'thulhu porn published...
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