Re: Haworth Press Journals

> This is not a helpful view. To be sure the copyright power is
> limited by the constitution but only in very general terms. Indeed
> the constitution makes copyright a means to an end "to promote the
> progress of science and the useful arts".
>
> Harvey Perlman

The view that "promoting progress" is the end for which copyright is the means is, (as I have said before so if you've read it before you can skip it here) a currently popular one, but by no means necessary and probably historically inaccurate.

It is far more likely that "promoting progress" was felt by the founders to be the natural consequence of a copyright system, not any sort of limitation on such a system.

            --Trotter Hardy

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