Thread: Nokia Audiobooks: what we need to hear
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GeraldKo is offline GeraldKo
2008-04-17 , 14:45
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#51
Originally Posted by RogerS View Post
Well, I'm a radical on this issue. I think "intellectual" property is as indefensible as "human" property, and I think copyright will be discarded, much as slavery was.
RogerS, you might be interested in the book "Against Intellectual Monopoly" by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine. Somewhere online I found a download of the whole book as a .txt or .prc or something, but here it is as pdf.

(I don't agree with you or them, but I do think the patent and copyright periods should be much shorter. While commercial life has sped up since 1776, protection periods have gotten longer, which makes no sense. Unless you're a Disney shareholder. They should have gotten shorter.)
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