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If the ideas aren't scarce, is the time and resources devoted to creating, recording and reproducing them scarce?

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Of course.

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Wouldn't it make sense to protect the value of the time and resources spent on creative works?

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It might. The individual whose time and resources we're talking about is capable of determining that for himself, presumably. Some people don't want to protect that stuff. For those who do, there are ways of doing so without imposing upon others.