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Copyright law's purpose

Copyright law's purpose

Posted Sep 29, 2005 3:16 UTC (Thu) by roelofs (guest, #2599)
Parent article: The Authors' Guild and Google Print

Copyright law's purpose is to further the public good by promoting more works of authorship, so as to make knowledge available. When did that part of the law's purpose get forgotten?

Right about the time our noble, hard-working, dedicated Congresscritters discovered how much large (corporate) media interests were/are willing to pay for laws favorable to them...

Sigh.

Greg


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