Even as digital technology has made reproducing, remixing and repurposing creative works easier -- with potentially enormous benefits for consumers and producers of new works -- the monopoly privileges of copyright have expanded. The result is a bizarre combination of rampant copyright violations, frequent encroachment on legitimate fair use, suppression of new technologies and business models, and the ever-present threat of draconian penalties.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-2 ... acket.html
A Free-Market Fix for the Copyright Racket
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A Free-Market Fix for the Copyright Racket
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