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Who’s Afraid of Sonny Bono?
In an earlier post I wondered about the legitimacy of current copyright law and was reminded of that fact this morning when I ran across a post by Matt Yglesias dealing with the same issue. His whole post and the links it includes are well worth reading, but here’s the nub of it: The point of intellectual property law is to benefit consumers, not producers.Read More
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“Mr. Yeats, Meet Mr. Freud” (but not Mr. Ashbery)
The works of Yeats and Freud are now available online thanks to the expiration of their copyrights. (Thanks to Jilly Dybka’s Poetry Hut Blog for this one.) Thanks to the greed-driven expansion of copyright protections future readers will have to wait a good deal longer to access the complete works of Ashbery (for example) online and for free.Read More