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Originally Posted by PKFFW
Only if you deem these Arts to be of no use.
I would argue many, if not most, people would disagree with your de facto assertion that these Arts have no use.
Cheers,
PKFFW
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It was not I who deemed the arts you infer to as of the "non-useful" variety, but the founding fathers, both in the Constitution, and in their denial of copyright protection to those arts in 1790.
It might help to think of a useful art as something being done for a specific purpose other than artistic expression, since that appears to be where the founding fathers made the distinction. They also apparently understood that people tended to express themselves artistically of their own accord, and would not stop doing so at some point in the future unless an artificial scarcity bubble was established to "protect" them from the evils of the free market.