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But that would mean that the copyright power can't be exercised at all. Any copyright restriction, strictly speaking, is a restriction on somebody's speech or press. So how do they say that one type of exercise of the power is a violation whereas another type is kosher?

Copyright is not necessarily a good idea. Nor necessary to market ideas or publications. Packaging and delivery are far more important.

Here's a analogy: In my house -- as in most American houses, we have perfectly good tap water. For me it's (nearly) free. I have a well.

Yet my kids, my wife and I still buy bottled water. In fact, a big local bottler had a pumphouse and bottling plant a few blocks away. They drew from a deeper aquifier than my well, but I could spend a few thousand to drill a new hole and draw from the exact same water.

Water's water. Essentially I can "copy" every ounce they have. At extremely low cost. Yet I still buy bottled water. And pay more than the price of gas for it!

Amazing!

But "IP" does get you access to venture capital and such. THAT is a fad. A fad of financing and business ventureing, but one that's been around for a while and strenghening like the winds around the eye of a storm.

And that kind of capital availiablity is being fed by fiat money. it a hard money system it requires re-allocation off of genuine profit-making and typically dividend paying entities. And those men understood real hard wealth creation. Now it just requires proximity to the wells of fiat money. And those wells are surrounded not by industrialists and retailers and supporters thereof -- but by legions of evil angels of financiers and lawyers.

"IP" is magically expansive. With one pen's worth of india-ink to draw a cartoon mouse you can conquer all industry and manufacturing! If you have the legions of evil angels beside you.