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Cite as:  565 U. S. ____ (2012) 

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BREYER, J., dissenting 

other work-preserving efforts.  See, e.g., Comments of the 
Library Copyright Alliance in Response to the U. S. Copy­
right Office’s Inquiry on Orphan Works 5 (Mar. 25, 2005), 
online  at  http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/lcacomment0305.pdf;
Comments  of  Creative  Commons  and  Save  The  Music 
in  Response  to  the  U. S.  Copyright  Office’s  Inquiry  on 
Orphan  Works 
(Mar.  25,  2005),  online  at  http://
www.copyright.gov/orphan/comments/OW0643-STM-
CreativeCommons.pdf; General Agreement on Tariffs and 
Trade  (GATT):  Intellectual  Property  Provisions,  Joint 
Hearing before the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property 
and  Judicial  Administration  of  the  House  Committee  on 
the  Judiciary  and  the  Subcommittee  on  Patents,  Copy­
rights  and  Trademarks  of  the  Senate  Committee  on  the 
Judiciary, 103d Cong., 2d Sess., 131, 273 (1994) (hereinaf­
ter  Joint  Hearing)  (statement  of  Larry  Urbanski,  Chair­
man of the Fairness in Copyright Coalition and President 
of Moviecraft, Inc.); Brief for American Library Assn. et al. 
as  Amici  Curiae  6–23;  Brief  for  Creative  Commons  Corp. 
as  Amicus  Curiae  7–8;  Brief  for  Project  Petrucci,  LLC,  as 
Amicus Curiae 10–11. 

These  high  administrative  costs  can  prove  counterpro­
ductive  in  another  way.    They  will  tempt  some  potential 
users  to  “steal”  or  “pirate”  works  rather  than  do  without. 
And  piracy  often  begets  piracy,  breeding  the  destructive
habit  of  taking  copyrighted  works  without  paying  for 
them,  even  where  payment  is  possible.    Such  habits 
ignore  the  critical  role  copyright  plays  in  the  creation
of  new  works,  while  reflecting  a  false  belief  that  new 
creation  appears  by  magic  without  thought  or  hope  of
compensation. 

B 
I  recognize  that  ordinary  copyright  protection  also 
comes accompanied with dissemination-restricting royalty
charges  and  administrative  costs.    But  here  the  re­