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That freedom stops as soon as you share it with someone else. While you can do whatever you want with your creations, those you share it with can also do whatev
by andreyf 17y ago
That freedom stops as soon as you share it with someone else. While you can do whatever you want with your creations, those you share it with can also do whatever they want with your creations.
These fundamental freedoms can impede progress, and so the US constitution allows congress to enforce limited-time monopolies for authors on their intellectual creations. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause
- davidw 17y agoIt's a compromise intended to stimulate the provisioning of public goods, to borrow some terms from economics, by creating artificial scarcity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good#Possible_solutions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good#Possible_solutions