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Ben on Promoting the Progress of Science and Property

By William Patry, Esq

Bill, the statement in your most recent post raised an issue that's long intrigued me:"The Constitution is quite clear that Congress can only grant copyright to promote the progress of science, and thus this ?burden? exists from the inception of the rights, and follows those rights for the duration of the copyright."The way you phrase this I think points to a rather fundamental divide among copyright lawyers (and interested others) who think about these issues. Of course, the Constitution provid read more

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