Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 14, 2002 01:07 PM
is Article I, Section 8. It allows Congress to grant "exclusive Rights" -- but only for "limited Times" and for a public purpose of ("promoting the progress of the Sciences and useful Arts"). Patents and copyrights are two different applications of this section.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 14, 2002 01:07 PM#