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Originally Posted by eschwartz
It was "how can I ensure people create more things".
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I disagree. Considering both the recurring wordings and especially the contexts (law, the US Constitution, etc) it was:
"How can I ensure people create more things FOR THE BETTERMENT OF SOCIETY."
(Or "FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD" if you prefer).
Point is, these are public laws, and documents concerned with forming a more perfect union, promoting the general welfare, securing the blessings of liberty to our posterity, etc.
It's not a matter of just creation for it's own sake, nor for individual gain.
What we call the Public Domain is merely the name we give to the simplest and, as was said above, natural state of published knowledge that meets that purpose.
ApK