Re: Copyright & The New World Economic Order

On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, John Lederer <johnl[_at_]ibm.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Albert Henderson <noblestation[_at_]compuserve.com> wrote:
> >
> > COPYRIGHT INDUSTRIES IN THE U.S. ECONOMY indicates $278 billion
> > in value added in 1996 by the core group including motion pictures,
> > computer software, music and recording and publishing industries.
> > Adding the distribution of these products, the contribution to GDP
> > was 5.68% or $434 billion. [Press release Feb 16, 1999. International
> > Intellectual Property Alliance]
> >
> > Piracy was estimated at $12.4 billion outside the U.S.
> >
> > They are working on it.
> >
> > I wouldn't worry.
>
> Would it be reasonable to express the 278 billion as one economic
> measure of the U.S. government subsidy designed to increase the flow
> of knowledge?

No. You might more appropriately apply the notion of 'subsidy' to the $2 trillion supplied, with little or no demands of quality or productivity, to educational institutions.

Albert Henderson
Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY
<70244.1532[_at_]compuserve.com> Received on Mon Aug 02 1999 - 11:51:31 GMT