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But we haven't gotten into why a creation is a creation I don't deny your right to make as many copies of it as you want as long as you live but why on earth should I not make copies. Patents are public, I could build my own copy of your better mousetrap in my garage and use it around my house, you can't stop me. You could stop me form giving them away probably, selling them, certainly but you can't own an idea once you let it out of your skull. The best you can hope for is an artificial monopoly and I've yet to see you give any justification as to why it should be for life, clearly people invent things with only 20 year old patents, clearly they invented and wrote books before patents or copyright existed at all. If 20 years of revenue or 56 years of revenue isn't good enough for you, well that's a shame but I don't think that'll keep others from creating as it didn't stop them in the past.
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