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Our founding fathers wanted to encourage competition and innovation. Copyright was given as a temporary protection of works for the owner, and after a certain a
by orionblastar 14y ago
Our founding fathers wanted to encourage competition and innovation. Copyright was given as a temporary protection of works for the owner, and after a certain amount of time the copyright fell into the public domain and then anyone could use it for free. This allowed small businesses and individuals to be able to compete with the copyright holder, and encourage the copyright holder to keep innovating new copyrights as the old ones expired.
But with the current system, copyrights never expire, and copyright holders don't innovate like they used to do. As a result our economy has gotten worse, and unemployment keeps going up, and the right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness is denied.
The US Constitution Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 has been violated by these modern copyright laws.
And I quote:
"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."
- OGinparadise 14y agoPersonally I see patents and copyrights as different, very different (I know that the expiration time are different too). There's a huge difference in innovation and benefit to the society when it comes to a Viagra patent and Mickey Mouse. It's my opinion of course.