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by Turing_Machine 3573 days ago
"With a book, you pay for the ideas contained therein - a subtle but (IMO) important difference."

Not according to the law, you aren't.

Also, there are plenty of ideas involved in building cars and houses. They're not just random piles of wood, metal, and plastic, any more than a book is just ink smeared on paper.