Re: copyright expiration as a spur to creativity

On 02 Sep 1998, Joseph Liu <liu3[_at_]law.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> 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).

I am not sure there is a "consumer" interest that is different from the interests of authors in dissemination. Authors are opposed by restaurants, organizations like Texaco, and universities trying to reallocate library money to administrative spending. While they claim to represent consumers, they appear to me to represent only the interests of their managers.

Albert Henderson, <70244.1532[_at_]compuserve.com> Received on Tue Sep 08 1998 - 13:30:33 GMT