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>The production of knowledge needs to be funded as it isn’t “free”. Copyright and licensing is one model that has worked for a long time.

Can you give some examples of new knowledge that was copyrighted? Generally copyright is used to protect art, software and textbooks. People who produce new knowledge generally are not paid by copyright. The knowledge is either kept secret or published in a journal from which the author recieves no compensation.



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