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Trickle down is most certainly not the broadly accepted view, FYI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics

Oh, well, this is something entirely different than copyright, since copyright is not specifically for businesses at all. It certainly doesn't fall in the broadly understood definition of "trickle-down economics."

What you're doing would be kind of like if I called the policy you're endorsing "socialism" and pointed out that that rarely works and is widely discredited among economists and everybody else. Makes for good reading I guess, but it wouldn't be very honest.

The widely accepted view on copyright is that it's needed to protect creators' ability to profit from their work and encourage the production of more such work. That's why it's written into the legal codes and sometimes constitutions of almost every major political entity in the world. Most economists similarly embrace its efficacy -- with caveats, in many cases, but the overall consensus is for. Misnaming it "trickle-down economics" changes that not a whit.

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