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The US constitution? > To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their
by venomsnake 12y ago
The US constitution?
> 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.
If congress is not maximizing the progress, it is not doing its job right. And right now copyright rights are suffocating.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> If congress is not maximizing the progress, it is not doing its job right The Constitution permits Congress to use IP with limited terms as a means to promote progress in "Science and useful Arts", it does not obligate Congress to maximize that progress. There's a decent moral argument, I suppose, that Congress ought to maximize the ratio (presuming these were really quantifiable in a clear and meaningful way) between that progress and the what society sacrifices to provide exclusive rights to creators, but that's not the same as maximizing progress on its own.