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The actual text of the US constitution maybe? Article I Section 8 Enumerated Powers Clause 8 Intellectual Property To promote the Progress of Science
by jmward01 2y ago
The actual text of the US constitution maybe?
Article I Section 8 Enumerated Powers Clause 8 Intellectual Property
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;
Seems like the idea is to promote innovation by making sure it is for a limited time only seems pretty ingrained in the idea.
- tmtvl 2y agoIf it says 'for a limited time', then wouldn't tying itmto the lifetime of the author be unconstitutional? Because strictly speaking it's impossible to predict whether an author's life will end.
- samatman 2y agoIt's in fact trivially easy to predict whether an author's life will end. Watch: I predict an author's life will end. I give it very high odds indeed.
- tastyfreeze 2y agoCorporations can hold copyright and can be undying.
- HWR_14 2y agoIf the author is a real person, it's life of the author plus. If it is a corporation it is a fixed amount of time.
- bitwize 2y agoDecided in Eldred v. Ashcroft. As long as Congress stipulates a non-infinite copyright term, it's constitutional. Given that the chance of a human being eventually ceasing to live has been 100% so far, it's legitimate to assume that life + n years is still a finite period of time.
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- cess11 2y ago"Progress of Science and useful Arts" isn't utilitarian in the sense "benefit society as a whole".