Copyright law fosters creativity by ensuring that people will be willing to incur costs to create new products. Creating new ideas costs time, energy, and money. Patents and their like allow people a modicum of assurance that they will be compensated for their efforts, which creates an incentive to produce ideas. Without such laws creativity is chilled, individuals suffer for lack of funds, and society suffers for the loss of potential ideas.
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Copyright law fosters creativity by ensuring that people will be willing to incur costs to create new products. Creating new ideas costs time, energy, and money. Patents and their like allow people a modicum of assurance that they will be compensated for their efforts, which creates an incentive to produce ideas. Without such laws creativity is chilled, individuals suffer for lack of funds, and society suffers for the loss of potential ideas.