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3 The Court of Appeals minimized the importance of the impoverishment of the public domain when it maintained that &ldquo;[p]reserving access to works that would otherwise disappear&mdash;not enter the public domain but disappear&mdash;&lsquo;promotes Progress&rsquo; as surely as does stimulating the creation of new works.&rdquo; 239 F.3d, at 379. This is an apparent reference to claims made by copyright holders in the legislative process that certain classes of works, particularly films, would not be physically preserved unless the copyright monopoly were extended. It is sufficient to point out that such a principle for the award of copyright monopolies conflicts with the constitutionally mandated requirement of originality: Congress cannot elect to preserve books, films, or music by conveying to the conservator a statutory monopoly of copying and distribution lasting decades.