Re:Purpose of copyright (Score 1)

> Gov't grants' cpyrt to promote creativity > then benefits when falls into public This is only part of it. Copyright exists for life plus 70 years. For a corporation, it exists for 95 or so years. Copyright law is more concerned with a natural law type of rule: the basis that people have some rights over what they create themselves. Patent law, on the other hand, is designed to encourage innovation to fall into the public.