Regarding the US constitution, I consider the most important word in that clause to be "limited". This is not just to ensure that inventors and writers get their exclusive use. This is to ensure that wide scale use of those ideas is possible with the public domain AFTER the limited time the originators get special protection. If "limited" had anything to do with Copyright any more, I'd be defending it like crazy. However, with the endless copyright now in place (The Mouse will never enter the public domain!) there is effectively no public domain unless some originator deliberately and specifically puts it there. Like civil forfeiture, copyright has been abused. That abuse should be resisted by everyone. Long live CSS.
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