Live now! Copyright Unbalanced: From Incentive to Excess.
The Constitution gives Congress the power to establish copyrights "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." This would require Congress to engage in a delicate balancin
...g act, giving authors enough protection to motivate their creation of expressive works, but not so much that it hampers innovation and access to information. Copyright Unbalanced makes the case that Congress has not struck that balance well and that over the last half-century, Congress has routinely shifted the balance in only one direction — away from public access and freedom and toward greater and deeper privileges for organized special interests.
Featuring the editor Jerry Brito, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University; Tom W. Bell, Professor, Chapman University School of Law; with comments by Mitch Glazier, Senior Executive Vice President, Recording Industry Association of America; moderated by Jim Harper, Director, Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
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