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That is mostly not how US copyright or patent law works. Your claim just wrong. It is legal to spread limited amounts of copyrighted material under fair use, and anyone can create and sell new content based on copyrighted material as long as it is sufficiently transformative.

It's also totally legal to print out a bunch of patents and redistribute those in a book or whatever (except on certain secret patents which aren't relevant here). You can't copyright a patent filing. The only legal restrictions are on building and selling things that infringe on patent claims.



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