Distribution is now so cheap that an individual can finance the distribution of millions of copies of a work for trivial amounts of money.

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But when he did manage to put his talent to work at seeing beyond the trivial, he painted some breathtaking works.

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Broad or obvious patents work as an innovation tax, forcing genuine innovators to pay tolls to people who made only trivial improvements before them.

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