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"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and
by kevin_b_er 8y ago
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
Again and again we find the greed of the corporation violates the spirit of why we've got any form copyright or patent. The Author and the Inventors don't own anything, the wealthy do.
- M2Ys4U 8y agoCopyright (and associated rights) have _always_ been about _control_. It's been that way since the 16th Century (with the creation of a monopoly of printing given to the Worshipful Company of Stationers by Queen Mary I) through to the first 'modern' copyright act in the 18th Century, the Statute of Anne.