Category Archives: copyright

What copyright scholars can learn from the Harper’s magazine “free speech” debacle

Posted on July 15, 2020 by

Nicholas Grossman has an excellent oped (h/t Mike Masnick) on that much (and justly) maligned Harper’s letter about cancel culture, free speech and stuff. Grossman’s key point: free speech defenders … miscast … their argument as a high-level defense of … Continue reading →

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What would copyright law look like if economists held the pen?

Posted on March 19, 2013 by

So yet another study finds that there is a small, positive correlation between illegal downloading and music sales (h/t Geist, Knopf, Torrent Freak and others). In basic English: Illegal downloads don’t harm music sales. Let’s put it even more simply: At the … Continue reading →

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Copyright shapes creation; it doesn’t drive it

Posted on November 27, 2012 by

I’m only now getting around to Peter Nowak’s provocative post (and its follow-up) about living in a world without copyright. One of the commentators wonders what this would do for creation: “Sure, people will create without IP law, but why … Continue reading →

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That Republican copyright critique isn’t conservative: It’s economic

Posted on November 27, 2012 by

Nice to see that that that Republican memo proposing that copyright be considerably rethought has been getting a lot of coverage. And I’m particularly interested to read an upcoming book that will apparently make the conservative case for copyright reform (h/t … Continue reading →

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