Z:gnu-www-ja-reevaluating-copyright--70a324-When the United States Constit/en

When the United States Constitution was drafted, the idea that authors were entitled to a copyright monopoly was proposed&mdash;and rejected [9]. Instead, the founders of our country adopted a different idea of copyright, one which places the public first [10]. Copyright in the United States is supposed to exist for the sake of users; benefits for publishers and even for authors are not given for the sake of those parties, but only as an inducement to change their behavior. As the Supreme Court said in Fox Film Corp. v. Doyal: &ldquo;The sole interest of the United States and the primary object in conferring the [copyright] monopoly lie in the general benefits derived by the public from the labors of authors.&rdquo; [11]