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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
More creations have been given to the public during the existence of patent (and copyright) than at any other time in history. Without patent and copyright, there would be a lot less writing and innovation.
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I think the first sentence is true I'm much less sure about the second.
I suspect that what happened was that mechanical copying became possible/easy which lead in turn to both an increase in creation (because more information/culture/invention could spread more widely, more quickly etc) and also made copyright possible/desirable.
In other words, if I'm right, it's a classic case of correlation not equaling causation.