For patents it is to avoid triggering triple damages.
For copyright it is to help avoid allegations of plagiarism.
> Burn copyright to the ground.
Burn patents to the ground! Copyright has some use, but the Disney changes have somewhat ruined its purpose.
We have precedent of believing that exposure to some code (or other internals) might taint an engineer, such that they can't, say, write a sufficiently independent implementation.
For patents it is to avoid triggering triple damages.
For copyright it is to help avoid allegations of plagiarism.
> Burn copyright to the ground.
Burn patents to the ground! Copyright has some use, but the Disney changes have somewhat ruined its purpose.