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Re:Why does Amazon have more books from the 1880s than the 1... by Afforess on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @12:45PM (#6135056)
I disagree. The real key phrase is To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts

Copyrights don't exist for the benefit of the owner, they exist to benefit society. Today's laws are a perverse misinterpretation of copyright's original intent.

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Re:Why does Amazon have more books from the 1880s than the 1... by austenallred on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @01:32PM (#6135420)
Yes, the goal is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." But the means to that end is to incentivize creators by granting them exclusive rights to the things that they create for a certain period of time.
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