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Re:Understanding Free Cultural Works by burrows on Sunday April 19, 2020 @02:54PM (#22917943)
> Free societies enable creativity by limiting this power of the past

How does the "limiting" part of this work?

Re:Understanding Free Cultural Works by skyfaller on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @02:42AM (#22942905)
Two obvious examples of limits on copyright are (1) copyright terms not lasting forever, copyrighted works should eventually enter the public domain, and (2) some uses of copyrighted work not requiring permission from the copyright holder, "fair use".