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Originally Posted by kennyc
Absolutely not. Copyright (like patent) law was created to allow creators to benefit financially from their work while simultaneously allowing it to be shared with others.
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Well, no. Copyright was created to allow work to be shared and at the same time stimulate the process of creating such works that could be shared. The method chosen for that was to allow creators to earn money for a limited time on what they created.
The way you state it it sound like earning money was a primary reason.