Richard Posner, The Law and Economics of Intellectual Property, Daedalus, Spring 2002. A posting to the CNI-Copyright list says this is the full-text of the lecture I mentioned the other day in which Posner criticized copyright extension. It seems to be too early to qualify, though Posner's recent talk might have been based on the older essay. But he does criticize copyright extension. "[T]he copyright term has been repeatedly enlarged in recent years, to the point where copyrights are as a practical matter nearly perpetual."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/27/2002 09:18:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
