Their problem is simply that they value a copy stolen as if it would have been a copy bought at full price.

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Long before Madison Avenue ad copy, merchants were verbalizing the value and benefits of their wares.

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For manuscript dealer Kaller, there's obviously more at stake, though he admits that his copy of the poem would retain value even if Moore were exposed as a plagiarist.

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