OK so then why isn't the Constitution copyrighted? I mean, surely the government could charge plenty of money to access the text of it to all kinds of differen

OK so then why isn't the Constitution copyrighted? I mean, surely the government could charge plenty of money to access the text of it to all kinds of different parties. If you wanted to sue someone for breaching your rights, you'd have to pay! We could cut down on all these spurious "you violated my rights" lawsuits that tie up the Supreme Court every year by just charging $1mm and then only the most egregious violations would make it there and everything would run much more smoothly, right? What is the tragedy of the commons whereby everyone uses the information contained in a map? There is no "commons" in ideas because a "commons" is absolutely a real tangible thing whereby when one person uses it, another cannot. The "commons" is originally a piece of land that is overgrazed because nobody has any incentive not to use it and every incentive to overuse it. If you and I both have digital copies of a map does that somehow preclude another person? No, it does not. Since it does not, how is it in any way a tragedy of the commons? How is it possible for information to be over-used? Using analogies to physical situations totally falls flat because in this case the thing is non-physical. It's the same "you wouldn't steal a movie" argument because copying a movie is not the same as stealing one!