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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Sigh. Go back and read the Statute of Ann again.
"To encourage learning"
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To encourage learning, you need to have as much information available freely as possible. To get this, you need to give people incentives not to keep whatever they find out a secret. To do this, you might have to resort to IPR. -> And we're back to Jefferson. (You do realise the Statute of Anne only applies to the UK, and that while the founding daddies knew of it, they did not limit themselves to the ideas expressed there? And that a lot of the current problems are related to US copyright law specifically?)