Answer: The answer is b: to promote innovation.
The government protects inventors and authors by offering them patents and copyrights to promote innovation.
Explanation: Patents are rights granted to an inventor by the government to bar or exclude others from making, selling or using such invention without their permission. The inventor has the right to license others to use or sell the products made using the invention.
Copyright refers to a person’s right to the use and distribution of his or her original work of authorship which are published or unpublished. These can be literary works, photographs, paintings and so on.
