[nitwit005]

> It's pedantic to say it, but copyright is not directly intended to help creators; its purpose is to enrich the public by inspiring creators to produce more. Helping creators profit/benefit from their work is a means to an end.

If you look at the history, the purpose is to enrich publishers, and everything else is simply to make the legislation more palatable.

If there was truly concern about enriching the public domain, the system would be dramatically different.

[gcanyon]

Sure, you can point out how it works in practice, but the concept of "for the public good" is in the literal description in the constitution.

[nitwit005]

Copyright laws rather obviously predate the US constitution.

[gcanyon]

While Mickey is a worldwide issue for Disney to deal with, the article is written from a U.S. perspective.

I'd be curious to know how other countries' laws justify copyright.