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Re:Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?' by pionar on Thursday December 11, 2014 @09:15AM (#8734763)
No, copyright exists to say, I made this, I get to control how it's distributed.
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Re:Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?' by TheCoelacanth on Thursday December 11, 2014 @10:03AM (#8735061)
No, copyright exists to incentivize the creation of new works for the benefit of society.
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Re:Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?' by dragonwriter on Thursday December 11, 2014 @11:00AM (#8735443)
You're both right. Grandparent is more correct as to why, historically, copyright as a monopoly grant was first created, but parent is correct as to the explicit Constitutional provision granting Congress the power to create copyright (and patents, etc.) in the US system, and generally the most commonly accepted reason for the continuation of copyright in the modern world.
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Re:Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?' by forgottenpass on Thursday December 11, 2014 @10:52AM (#8735399) 

    To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by 
    securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the 
    exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
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