@nachtpfoetchen @LunaDragofelis Yeah, when the monopoly expires others can use it. Copyright is a "limited" monopoly of a lifetime, or a lifetime plus another lifetime, and patents are a monopoly that delay innovation by a generation.
But if they were never granted that monopoly, everyone would have their natural freedom to research, create, invent, and produce better things.
Like the Salk polio vaccine.
Or inversely, the adoption of the steam engine was delayed decades by patents.
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