...copyright is "to encourage people to devote themselves to intellectual and artistic creation"6 and the "encouragement of individual effort by personal gain...advance public welfare through the talents of authors."* The first Copyright Act passed in 1790 and all subsequent copyright laws enacted since then have had...

...US 201 (1954), 74 S Ct. 460, 98 L Ed. 630 (1954): "[t]he economic philosophy behind the clause ... is the conviction that encouragement of individual...the talents of authors and inventors in 'Science and useful Arts.' Sacrificial days devoted to such creative activities deserve rewards commensurate with...

...Carnden speaking before Parliament in 1774). 75. But see Mazer v. Stein (1954) 347 US Supreme Court 219 ('The economic philosophy behind the clause empowering Congress to grant patents and copyrights in the conviction that encouragement of individual effort by personal gain is the best way to advance...

...Mazer v. Stein, 347 US 201, 219 (1954) (stating that "the economic philosophy behind the clause ... is the conviction that encouragement of individual...welfare through the talents of authors and inventors"); Harper & Row Publishers v. Nation Enters., 471 US 539, 558, 105 S. Ct. 2218, 2229 (1985). 5 Copyright...

...constitutional value, the Supreme Court has found in the Authors and Inventors Clause a constitutional precept that "encouragement of individual effort by personal...the talents of authors and inventors in 'Science and useful Arts.'" 83 Intellectual property has characteristics that in some circumstances differentiate...

...delicate equilibrium invoked so often throughout the discussion above. As the Supreme Court has taught, "[t]he economic philosophy behind the clause empowering...the talents of authors and inventors in 'Science and useful Arts.'"246 By contrast,247 some may view copyright not as embodying any balance at all, but...

...exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries"); Mazer v. Stein, 347 US 201, 219 (1954) ("The economic philosophy behind the clause empowering...the talents of authors and inventors in "Science and useful Arts."). While Congress has determined that compulsory licenses are needed in certain circumstances,...

...greater encouragement to the production of literary [or artistic] works of lasting benefit to the world.' The economic philosophy behind the clause empowering...the talents of authors and inventors in 'Science and useful Arts.' Sacrificial days devoted to such creative activities deserve rewards commensurate with...

...Eldred v. Ashcrofl:6 As we have explained, "the economic philosophy behind the [Copyright] Clause ... is the conviction that encouragement of individual...welfare through the talents of authors and inventors." Mazer v. Stein. 347 US 201. 219. 98 L. Ed. 630. 74 S. Ct. 460. 1954 Dec. Comm'r Pat. 308 (1954). Accordingly,...

...literary [or artistic] works of lasting benefit to the world" Washington Pub. Co. v. Pearson, 306 US 30. The economic philosophy behind the clause empowering...grant patents and copyrights is the conviction that it is the best way to advance public welfare through the talents of authors and inventors in "Science...