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Creativity Is Enhanced By Less-than-perfect Control Over What Content Is On The Network.

All Of The Great Disney Works Took Works That Were In The Public Domain And Remixed Them.

If Zero Percent Of The Elites Support Something, Very Low Chance It's Going To Pass, If 100% Support Something, Very High Chance It's Going To Pass. Same Thing For Organized Interest Groups. But For The Average Voter, It's A Flat Line. Which Says It Doesn't Matter Whether Zero Percent Of The Public Believes Something Or 100% Of The Average Voters Believe Something - It Doesn't Affect The Probability That That Thing Will Be Enacted.

Creativity Builds Upon The Public Domain. The Battle That We're Fighting Now Is About Whether The Public Domain Will Continue To Be Fed By Creative Works After Their Copyright Expires. That Has Been Our Tradition But That Tradition Has Been Perverted In The Last Generation. We're Trying To Use The Constitution To Reestablish What Has Always Been Taken For Granted--that The Public Domain Would Grow Each Year With New Creative Work.

This Does Not Mean That Every Copyright Must Prove Its Value Initially. That Would Be A Far Too Cumbersome System Of Control. But It Does Mean That Every System Or Category Of Copyright Or Patent Should Prove Its Worth.