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While one aims to regulate and ensure that markets operate efficiently in a fair and competitive manner, the other aims to grant a certain level of protection which may be considered to have monopolistic tendencies. After the period of protection, the inventions and information surrounding it fall into the publicdomain.
Also in its amended opinion, in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Google , the court placed newfound emphasis on the consideration of the “public benefits” the copying will likely produce as part of its analysis of the fourth fair use factor—the effect of the use on the market for the original. Goldsmith , 11 F.4th 17 U.S.C. §
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