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Yet copyright is often thought of as a natural right by laymen and politicians, which often leads to wrong decisions about copyright policy. Even courts, defining the details of the copyright system, often let this thought creep back implicitly even though it is supposed to be excluded. This is a conceptual error because it mistakes a means (copyright) to a larger end (progress) for an end in itself.