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Copyright was intended to provide a means of support for individual artists, not as a means of guaranteeing profits to super-conglomerate shareholders for a per
by mountainb 5y ago
Copyright was intended to provide a means of support for individual artists, not as a means of guaranteeing profits to super-conglomerate shareholders for a period that nears on a century.
- chrismcb 5y agoNo. Copyright was intended to allow people to create. This might mean support for individual artists. Our it might mean profits for a super conglomerate. In fact, without that super conglomerate some things would never be created.
- mountainb 5y agoArticle 1, Section 8 of the Constitution specifies "authors and inventors," suggesting that natural persons were what the drafters had in mind. Those rights granted to individuals have been inferred to also be the rights of immortal companies over time.