Re: copyright expiration as a spur to creativity

From: Dan L Burk <BURKDANL[_at_]shu.edu>
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 22:14:59 -0400

On 9/2/98, Joseph Liu <liu3[_at_]law.harvard.edu> wrote:
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> Will do. But in the mean time, my impression is that the total
> amount spent by copyright owners (book publishers, movie industry,
> recorded music industry, etc.) lobbying congress for greater
> copyright protection vastly exceeds amounts spent by consumer groups
> lobbying in the other direction. I admit that this is pure
> unsupported assertion, but would you disagree? (I would like to
> believe that I am mistaken).

You are not. The exact measure may depend on what you call "lobbying" (i.e., do you include PAC contributions?) but "vastly exceeds" is a defensible assessment under most any definition.

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Dan L. Burk
Seton Hall University
burkdanl[_at_]shu.edu

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Received on Fri Sep 04 1998 - 02:09:20 GMT