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Once upon a time, in the age of the printing press, an industrial regulation was established to cover the business of writing and publishing. It was called copyright. Copyright's purpose, stated in the US Constitution, was to &ldquo;promote progress&rdquo;&mdash;that is, to encourage publication. The method used was to make publishers get permission from authors for using recent works.