Comments on: What is the purpose of copyright? http://brianrowe.org/IMT550/2010/02/08/what-is-the-purpose-of-copyright/ Class Blog for IMT 550, Winter 2010, @ UW Ischool Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:17:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Brian Rowe http://brianrowe.org/IMT550/2010/02/08/what-is-the-purpose-of-copyright/comment-page-1/#comment-119 Brian Rowe Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:01:04 +0000 http://brianrowe.org/IMT550/?p=268#comment-119 "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;" - US Constitution article 1 section 8 clause 8 US law does not see it as having a single purpose. Both can be possible. Does your perspective change when you view copyright as an international issue. Should developing nations have the same rules and restrictions as developed nations that own most of the content? On another note should new tranformative works be treated the same as copies of existing works? “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;”
- US Constitution article 1 section 8 clause 8

US law does not see it as having a single purpose. Both can be possible.

Does your perspective change when you view copyright as an international issue. Should developing nations have the same rules and restrictions as developed nations that own most of the content?

On another note should new tranformative works be treated the same as copies of existing works?

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