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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
I can say with certainty that they would not be upset by this at all by libraries only being able to loan out one copy of a book at a time. They are the ones who put copyright into the Constitution. Copyright came about in the first place because of how much easier it had become to copy books with the printing press. There is no way that they would be persuaded that making books even easier to copy would mean they would be OK with copying them as much as you wanted.
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It's a bit hard to say what copyright was put into the constitution for, Most back room politico dealings aren't written down into the history books.
At any rate, If I was to go back in time and ask Mr. Franklin (Using my time machine of course) about copyright and whether it should still have a place in the world of the internet, I think he might have to think about it for awhile.
And then I would try to explain internet 2.0 to him, I don't know if he would understand, but if he did I am fairly sure he would see that in a world where no one has to copy anything since everything is merely accessed, and all uploads and downloads are tracked, that copyright is now an impediment to the spread of knowledge rather than an incentive.