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Originally Posted by eschwartz
More or less how I understood it.
Mind you, I do not see where in that (or other explanations I have read) it says anything about "progress of science and the arts" equating to the need for a public domain. There is nothing stopping progress from just creating more stuff for us to buy.
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There's been quite a lot of discussion on the matter since the Constitution.
That link I included goes into it.
The idea of the PD, in my way of thinking, is implicit in what happens AFTER the "limited" time that all copyright laws I'm familiar with give, otherwise, as someone said, why limit the time at all?
In any case, the fact of the "how" does not change the "why" anymore than the fact of the "why" means we can ignore the "how."
So I think Hitch and Sgt. Stubby are both wrong.
ApK