Re: copyright expiration as a spur to creativity

On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Albert Henderson wrote:
>
> You call patent rights an "unwarrented degree of market power
> due to some competitive failure?" If you are against copyrights,
> I guess you might as well be against patents for the same reasons.

I did not get the impression that Mr. Burk is against the copyright. Only that he agrues against the EXCESSIVE monopolistic power as given by long term of copyright. The operating word is "excessive".

I do not see any reedming quality in the excessive monopoly.

Joseph Pietro Riolo
<riolo[_at_]voicenet.com> Received on Thu Aug 13 1998 - 01:47:05 GMT