Just to prove that Lawrence Lessig is right, a GOP group released a shockingly sensible memo on copyright, then retracted it due to pressure from lobbyists. Now Derek Khanna, the staffer that wrote it has been given the boot.
Khanna’s three myths
- the purpose of copyright is to compensate the creator of content
- copyright is free market capitalism at work
- the current copyright legal regime leads to the greatest innovation and productivity
To read
- The memo: Three myths about copyright law and where to start to fix it
- Crooked Timber on Lessig’s Republic, Lost
- Marginal Revolution: Don’t Mess with the Mouse
- The Case of the Vanishing Policy Memo on Slate's Moneybox
More on intellectual property
- Alex Tabarrok - Launching the Innovation Renaissance
- Making the patent system even worse: first-to-file is a gift to corporations
- Current intellectual property laws are blocking innovation
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