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[dvd-discuss] Reason magazine: patents and copyrights are superfluous
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- Subject: [dvd-discuss] Reason magazine: patents and copyrights are superfluous
- From: Jeremy Erwin <jerwin(at)ponymail.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:41:02 -0500
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Some on this mailing list may be interested in and/or amused by a
recent Reason piece ( http://www.reason.com/0303/fe.dc.creation.shtml
), describing a recent economic paper (Boldrin and Levine. 2002,
"Perfectly Competitive Innovation" ,
http://www.dklevine.com/papers/pci23.pdf ) that notes " Copyrights,
patents, and similar government-granted rights serve only to reinforce
monopoly control, with its attendant damages of inefficiently high
prices, low quantities, and stifled future innovation,"
Jeremy