Hm. Authorial ownership is an odd and sticky question. On the one hand, I can sympathize with someone who has spent a great deal of time creating a book or other work of art. But I feel even more strongly that stories, ideas, images, etc., are not things, in the way that cars and tables and shoes are. They are living essences that run through humanity like water through a channel. Does the riverbed own the river that runs through it? Can the river be said to be a river without the bed it runs through? It's a symbiotic relationship, and yet the water is water, and would be water whether it ran through that channel or an entirely different one. Such is the nature, I believe, of stories. They run through us and out of us, but have their own life that has little to do with the conduit they use.

That article you mentioned sounds very interesting. Can you let me have the link to it?