Although what person #2 did was unethical, in my opinion, legally he/she didn't do anything law breaking. You can't copyright an idea. I don't think that you can even trademark it.
If I shared an idea with someone and discovered that they had written my plot, I'd read it, laugh, then write it better.
I keep my original fictions very secretive and only let people I trust read them or hear about them. I'm rather open about fan fiction though, since they are not my characters to begin with.
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Date: 2009-04-19 10:49 am (UTC)If I shared an idea with someone and discovered that they had written my plot, I'd read it, laugh, then write it better.
I keep my original fictions very secretive and only let people I trust read them or hear about them. I'm rather open about fan fiction though, since they are not my characters to begin with.