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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution empowers the United States Congress:
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
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I guess one can expect the Progress of Science to change a bit over 200 years or so.
If only the poor Inventors had invented something really useful, like a big-eared mouse, then they wouldn't be stuck with only 20 years of exclusive Right, and we could look forward to a period of massive scientific, medical and technological changes?