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{{quotation | "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." | {{quotation | "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." | ||
<ref>Wikipedia: Copyright Clause. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause]</ref>}} | <ref>Wikipedia: Copyright Clause. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause]</ref>}} | ||
| + | In its current form, the U.S. copyright law protects creative works for the duration of the author's (or authors') life plus 70 years. <ref>United States Copyright Law, Title 17 U.S. Code, Chapter 3, Section 302. [http://copyright.gov/title17/]</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 12:19, 22 November 2011
"Commercialization" is a broad term that encompasses the general move from a sphere dominated by the publics to a space dominated by propriety influences.
Public versus Proprietary Spaces
The notion of public property goes back far; in the United States, modern copyright law and intellectual property (IP) laws have their beginning in the U.S. constitution. Article 1, Section 8, clause 8 reads:
"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."
In its current form, the U.S. copyright law protects creative works for the duration of the author's (or authors') life plus 70 years. [2]
