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Jefferson wrote that patent and copyright protection were necessary to encourage creation of new works, but he was also concerned that the free exchange of ideas be encouraged as well. The oft-cited 1813 letter linked below includes the line "He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me."

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