Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8



Document 6

Records of the Federal Convention

[2:321; Journal, 18 Aug.]

To secure to literary authors their copy rights for a limited time

To establish an University

To encourage, by proper premiums and provisions, the advancement of useful knowledge and discoveries

To establish seminaries for the promotion of literature and the arts and sciences

To grant charters of incorporation

To grant patents for useful inventions

To secure to authors exclusive rights for a certain time

To establish public institutions, rewards and immunities for the promotion of agriculture, commerce, trades, and manufactures.

[2:505; Journal, 5 Sept.]

"To promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries. agreed

[2:595; Committee of Style]

To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.


The Founders' Constitution
Volume 3, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8, Document 6
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s6.html
The University of Chicago Press

Farrand, Max, ed. The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. Rev. ed. 4 vols. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1937.

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