The misinterpreted “Intellectual Property” clause of the U.S. Constitution (Art. I, §8, cl. 8) grants Congress the power to “promote the Progress of Science” by securing exclusive rights to Authors for their “Writings.” Its parallel clause states that exclusive rights should accrue to Inventors in the “useful Arts” for their “Discoveries.” At first blush, authoring or reading novels would seem like a diffuse, unpractical way to promote “scientific” progress in agricultural commerce. But then, Upton…