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Passage A.

Phenomenon · Comedians don't use copyright law to protect their jokes from theft

Hypothesis · Filing lawsuits is too expensive to protect jokes

Costs include both actual costs and legal uncertainty about how copyright law applies to joke stealing.

Phenomenon · Despite no legal protection against joke theft, comedians still write lots of jokes

That's unexpected. Conventional wisdom would say that without legal protection, comedians wouldn't write jokes. But conventional wisdom is wrong.

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Hypothesis · Social norms protect from joke theft

Norms are enforced by punishments, such as damage to reputation.

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Intro topic · Chefs don't use law to protect their recipes

Intellectual property law usually doesn't cover recipes, and chefs rarely use trade secrecy laws.

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Social norms · Chefs protect recipes by three social norms

(Just like how Passage A said comedians use social norms to protect their jokes.)

Norm 1 · Don't copy another chef's recipe exactly

Functions like patent protection for something innovative.

Norm 2 · If secret recipe is revealed, don't pass it to someone else

Functions like trade secrecy protection.

Norm 3 · Give credit to people who developed recipes

Functions like copyright protection.

Passage Style

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Supported, because one of the reasons comedians don’t bring lawsuits is that success if “difficult and uncertain.” This suggests that if success in those lawsuits were less difficult and less uncertain, comedians would be more likely to bring lawsuits to protect their material.

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Passage A doesn’t discuss trade secrecy.

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Not supported. The passage suggests that the social norms are robust enough to make developing new jokes worth the effort.

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Not supported. The author never suggests that a formal system will be more effective than the informal system of social norms.

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