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Copyright is both economics and innovation. The text of the Copyright Clause, which grants Congress the power to grant copyrights in order to" promote the Progress of Science,"'bears this out explicitly. The express goal of promoting progress is achieved by increasing the production of works protected by copyright, and the grant of exclusive rights is the means toward that end. 2 Although the exclusive rights inevitably restrict the ways in which audiences can use copyrighted works to express themselves, those restrictions are, in many ways, a boon to free speech. 3