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		parent5446 on March 24, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Appeals Court Says It's Okay to Copyright an Entir... The purpose of copyright law has never been to protect the public domain. Its explicit purpose, as even stated in the Constitution, is the protect the profits of the IP owners.

gpm on March 24, 2018 [–]

That is not the purpose, and is stated neither in the consitution nor law.

The purpose, as stated in the constitution, is "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts".

This often means protecting the profits of the IP owners, but not always, for example see "copyright misuse".

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