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Originally Posted by tompe
You can also read it that patentable things are more important to society and they need to be released to be fully useful. Art is not so important and for that it is easier to be influences by lobbyists and make absurd laws since art is not so important for society. It does not matter if we get less and worse art because of copyright laws.
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That ides works in most places but we in the US have a somewhat usual problem. Out constitution says that copyright and patents are to promote the progress of science and the useful arts. If they don't do that well... problem.