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"The very economic basis of copyright is that a state-granted limited monopoly can create artificial scarcity where natural scarcity could not exist."Question The prospects by an author of a work of art — or a work of literature, of any (loosely speaking) creative work — of having been ripped off at somebody else's pleasure would indeed tend to produce "natural scarcity" of such works.
But I'm studying.