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[Page] 223 [Quote from Patry’s book] Closed lists must be regularly updated on the penalty of crushing technological or market innovations: no legislature, no matter how careful or insightful, can think of all current uses, much less think of uses, technologies, or markets that are not yet existence. In the past, technologies and therefore business models changed slowly. This is no longer the case. [My Comments] 
You can’t have it both ways. On the one hand, it is true that one cannot expect the legislatures to think of all of possible uses. On the other hand, this is what Patry is advocating when he suggests that different sorts of works should have different terms of protection, carefully designed to reflect the best interests of the society in having access to such works.
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