RE: Information & Power /Copyrights

From: mark@unicorn.com
Date: Fri May 07 1999 - 10:50:39 MDT


Hal wrote:
>So we may have the opportunity to witness both environments over the
>next few decades, and it will be interesting to see whether there is
>any impact on the rate of production of intellectual property.

You could also argue that copyright results in excessive overproduction of
intellectual property; we may have more production today than ever before,
but we certainly have more production of utter crap today than ever before.
Without copyright we'd probably lose a lot of that production... but I
strongly suspect we'd lose far more of the crap than the worthwhile
material.

    Mark



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