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> The purpose of copyright is to encourage authors to create more works. Is this true? I know in many cases copyright does the complete opposite as it hinders
by runarberg 6y ago
> The purpose of copyright is to encourage authors to create more works.
Is this true? I know in many cases copyright does the complete opposite as it hinders artists from creating derivative work. Then there is a whole genre of art—folk art; which is arguably the most popular genre—where artists continue to do art where the copyright is hardly ever perused, enforced, or if present almost always ignored.
You could just as easily make the case that in the art genre where copyright is the most loose, the amount of art created is the greatest.
- jjk166 6y agoArticle 1 Section 8 Clause 8 of the US Constitution: [The Congress shall have power] “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.” It's neither guaranteed to be an effective or necessary means of achieving that objective, but that is undeniably copyright's stated purpose.