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Originally Posted by spellbanisher
In Franklin's time, when the U.S. copyright laws were created, almost all works were created either to educate, or they were forms of poetry that could be imitated and used to improve ones own writing and thinking. With very little fiction, and most works being didactic, the founding fathers found it valuable that copyright law should find the best balance to encourage the creation and dissemination of all works. Of course the general uses of fiction has changed, so I think it is important to ask the question again in modern times.
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All work is educational, to think otherwise is wrong. Your trash fiction is my life changing epiphany, when you understand this we can move on.
Fiction, telling stories. THE DRIVING FORCE OF THE CULTURE. Our society is crafted by the fictions that we tell ourselves and others. This is the source of the knowledge of which you speak and it is EVERYWHERE!!
The founding fathers were regurgitating the ideals of the monied interests of the time. There is another way.
