Copyright doctrine protects expression but leaves underlying ideas legally hollow

Evidence

A failing novelist appropriates the story idea of a recently dead student and turns it into a bestseller, only to be stalked by an anonymous correspondent who knows what he has done. Korelitz interrogates the legal hollowness of “ideas” under copyright doctrine, where expression is protected but the underlying plot is not. The novel is also a procedural about reputation management in contemporary publishing and the way anonymous accusation, deepfake-style, can destabilize a writer who has no recourse to defamation. — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 410

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: using this novel to dramatize the idea/expression distinction as it resurfaces in AI-training copyright cases.
• XREF: connects to: Canonical texts can be preserved while interpretation voids their operational force. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 2347