>If that's not the purpose, why even have copyright at all? To encourage creative works. This may or may not lead to expanding the public domain, but those are

>If that's not the purpose, why even have copyright at all? To encourage creative works. This may or may not lead to expanding the public domain, but those are not equivalent. >These are referenced in the US Constitution itself. The constitution references encouraging creativity. It does not reference expanding the public domain.