The results of the simulations above show that copyright protection, from an economic and policy standpoint, while good for authors, was not the most efficient policy the founders could have implemented to promote the rapid growth in the progress of arts and the sciences. Given the conditions of the publishing industry in the United States at the beginning of the country, a short–term policy of price controls would have had better long–run positive effects.
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