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michaeldthomas) wrote2011-03-01 07:27 am
michaeldthomas) wrote2011-03-01 07:27 am
Because it needs to be said....
Some person is eBaying their story "idea" for a starting price of $3,000.00.
I love this quote from Victoria Strauss in Writer Beware:
"Ideas aren't worth anything. It's only their expression that has value. This is why ideas aren't protected by copyright: they are the basic building blocks of creative endeavor, and as such must be available for anyone to use. Give a dozen writers a single idea, and you'll wind up with a dozen different novels of a dozen different qualities, each of which might or might not find publication, depending on a wide variety of factors and variables."
Yup. It's all about the implementation.
I love this quote from Victoria Strauss in Writer Beware:
"Ideas aren't worth anything. It's only their expression that has value. This is why ideas aren't protected by copyright: they are the basic building blocks of creative endeavor, and as such must be available for anyone to use. Give a dozen writers a single idea, and you'll wind up with a dozen different novels of a dozen different qualities, each of which might or might not find publication, depending on a wide variety of factors and variables."
Yup. It's all about the implementation.