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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
Actually, the purpose of copyright is to give people an incentive to create. Protecting the authors is a means to that end.
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Actually, I think it would be better to say that copyright is there to promote creation. It's protections provide not just an incentive, but also a means to an end.
Someone might want to write so badly that they will write regardless of any incentives; but by providing an income, it allows them to write more than they might have otherwise.
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Bill