"Were it otherwise," Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote in the opinion, "patents might stifle, rather than promote, the progress of useful arts".
"I strive to be a worthy Chinese citizen, a member of the group of people who promote the progress of the nation," he said.
He was the lead minister for the Munro review of child protection and in government has been the key minister in promoting the progress of the Social Work Reform Board.
And Mr. Opderbeck says that diminishes the power of copyrights to "promote the progress of science and useful arts," as is stated in the Constitution.
Mr. Lessig has said that copyright laws, as outlined in the Constitution, should "promote the progress of science and useful arts".
At issue is whether Congress overstepped its authority to grant copyrights "for limited times" to "promote the progress of science and useful arts".
The constitution grants Congress the power to grant copyrights and patents only for "limited times" in order to "promote the progress of science and the useful arts".
MR. OLSON:... What the framers were saying is, we want to give Congress the authority to promote the progress of useful arts and sciences, and JUSTICE STEVENS: How did the example we just talked about, a patentee given an extra 10 years on his -- how does that promote the progress of science?
Eighty years later, America's founders expanded on this, giving Congress the authority to enact copyright laws "to promote the progress of science and useful arts".
