To those who argue that the feelings of authors should not come into the argument, I'd point out that, since the purpose of copyright as defined in the US Constition is "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts," that it is exactly the creative feelings of authors and inventors that copyright laws are intended to promote, to whit, those feelings that motivate them to advance the progress of (in the case of fiction) their useful Arts.
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