Not so. While the patent office is run by the Commerce Department, the Copyright Office is part of the Library of Congress, part of Congress, a 100% political (thus lobbied) organization, the same organization that made the law for the cartels. By keeping the Copyright Office, Congress has full control of copyright matters without the intervention of the executive branch of government. That explains more.

Notice how the Eupeans are concerned how it is that old (recording onl) artists are no paid for their work 50 years ago but no so for taxi drivers, music teachers, inventors for their (including patented) and opera singer’s work of 50 years ago?

My theory is that they, legislators, are on the take.

BTW, the Commerce Department also runs the Copyright Office. That explains a lot.

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A bunch of pigs didn’t like the water in the pond. It was too clean, tasteless. The pigs got together and got the pond owners to make the water dirty, in exchange for some bacon. The problem now is that the water is too dirty for all but the pigs, who love the pond the way it is. Also, the pond owners ate all the bacon and are always asking for more from the pigs. The pigs, that don’t even care if the water is fit for humans who own the pond are happy to comply.