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Originally Posted by bingle
Actually, I think you've got that backwards. The *primary* purpose of copyright is to "promote the progress of science and useful arts"[1]. It tries to accomplish this by providing a temporary monopoly for content creators.
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That's more or less what I was trying to say, bingle, though you seed it a good deal more succinctly.
Further, I don't feel jumped on at all, glad to have the additional info, in fact (it's been a long time since my Mass Comm. & Law course in college, and stuff gets fuzzy when I don't use it).
Regarding ranting about the gub'mint exceeding the Constitution, I'm always open to that kind of rant (frequently to my wife's disgust -- she has to insist that I not rant on our dates). This isn't that sort of forum, so I'll resist the urge to dive in myself -- you've already covered the relevant points, and I'd only be able to go way off-topic.
