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to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." ' The
constitutional clause thus sets out two goals "to foster the growth of learning and culture for the public
welfare, and the grant of exclusive rights to authors for a limited time is a means to that end." '
Although the primary purpose of the copyright law is to foster the creation and dissemination of intellectual works for the public welfare, It also has an important secondary purpose. To give authors the reward due them for their contribution to society.
These two purposes are closely related. Many authors could not devote themselves to creative works without the prospect of remuneration. By givmg authors a means of securing the economic reward afforded by the market, copyright stimulates their creation and dissemination of intellectual works. Similarly, copyright protection enables publishers and other distributors to invest their resources in bringing those works to the public. "•
Authors would not be able to continue to create unless they earned income on their finished works. The public benefits not only from an author's original work but also from his or her further creations. Although this truism may be illustrated in many ways, one of the best examples is Noah Webster who supported his entire family from the earnings on his speller and grammar during the twenty years he took to complete his dictionary.
1. The Fnglish Stafirt* nf Anii»
The Statute of Anne, enacted in England in 1710, was the first copyright statute to gain wide anentioa Its provisions served as a model not only for the United States, but many other nations as well.
US. Const art I, §8, cl. 8.
' REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS ON THE GENERAL REVISION OF THE U.S. COPYRIGHT LAW, HOUSE COMM. ON THE JUDICIARY. 87TH CONG., 1ST SESS., COPYRIGHT LAW REVISION (Pan 1. 5) (Comm. Print 1961). [hereinafter Copyright Law Revision Part 1].
"* Id. at 5-6. These principles are noted in nx>re detail in H.Rep. No. 2222, to Congress, 2d Sess. on the Copyright Act of 1909. 'Not thai any panicular class of citizens, however worthy, may benefit, but because the policy is believed to be for the benefit of the great body of people, in that it will stimulate writing and invention to give some bonus to authon and inventors." I^
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