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Book sales themselves already promote the book's ideas as long as readers keep buying it. Why should they also fund further promotion?
by gjm11 16y ago
Book sales themselves already promote the book's ideas as long as readers keep buying it. Why should they also fund further promotion?
- xenophanes 16y agoIt wouldn't exist at all without its creator so why should its creators' rights (including transferable rights) ever end? The idea of rights with a time limit is kind of strange, isn't it?
- Jach 16y agoTo 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; I'm not a constitution expert, so my interpretation is probably wrong in several ways, but this line suggests to me that it's not so much a right with a time limit, the works of authors and inventors belong to Society and this passage grants to the creator a temporary exclusive privilege to capitalize on the ideas. For my own bias, I'm with the crowd that feels "Creators gonna create" whether this passage existed or not.