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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 9886282" data-attributes="member: 6795602">Federalist Paper no 43"To the People of the State of New York:THE FOURTH class comprises the following miscellaneous powers:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">A power "to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing, for a limited time, to authors and inventors, the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries. ''The utility of this power will scarcely be questioned. The copyright of authors has been solemnly adjudged, in Great Britain, to be a right of common law. The right to useful inventions seems with equal reason to belong to the inventors. The public good fully coincides in both cases with the claims of individuals. The States cannot separately make effectual provisions for either of the cases, and most of them have anticipated the decision of this point, by laws passed at the instance of Congress."</li> </ol>Do you know why he references right of common law instead of natural right?  Those are different things.  A common law right, is a legal right, not a moral right.  As such Madison makes clear his case for copyright protection is utilitarian - 'to promote the progress of science and useful arts'.Likewise the Statute of Anne makes clear it's intentino as utilitarion in it's very first line.  "An act for the encouragement of learning, by vesting the copies of printed books in the authors or purchasers of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.Like I said, your understanding of history, moral rights, natural rights and common-law rights is seriously lacking.</blockquote>

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