Private Law Theory

Introduction
There are numerous possible ways in which society, through government, can set the rules under which artistic works are produced. In most countries, governments have provided a property right to the producer of the creative work, with that property right being known as copyright. Copyright regulation by a government is generally acknowledged to have first originated with the Statue of Anne in 1710. The US Constitution contains a clause that provides for ownership, for a limited time, to artists. I have elsewhere written negatively about criticisms of copyright. Here I wish to discuss the affirmative case for copyright, which I believe to be a strong one … (more)

Stan Liebowitz, ‘The Case for Copyright’, 24 George Mason Law Review 907 (2017).

First posted 2017-10-23 06:11:10