bump!
This Lamar Smith is so obviously bought out it is sad!
Human innovation is based on free ideas. Imagine if mathematical concepts were copyrightable, or language. The internet either remains a free exchange of ideas or all sites that may accidentally reprint copyrighted material, including this one, would get shut off the internet.
Ah, but some mathematical concepts — algorithms — aren’t just copyrightable, they’re patentable! And subject to export control as munitions in some cases! (As if enemy countries have no competent number theorists.) That alone is enough to show that the corrupt concept of “intellectual property” is a detriment to progress even without the problems it creates for derivative works in the arts and incremental advances in technology.