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Copyright and Incentives
Andrew Sullivan takes note of the copyright debate between Matthew Yglesias and Sonny Bunch (is that his real name?) here:
[Posted at 02/04/2010 07:55 AM by Justin Levine on Copyright 
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Matt failed to quote the constitutional provision to the effect that "Congress shall have the power to promote the progress of Science and useful Arts...." It does not require the Congress to do so, a fact that seems to be seldom noticed.
[Comment at 02/04/2010 01:29 PM by John Bennett]
I must quote one of the commenters here:
sidereal:
Your purported justification, though... "The purpose of intellectual property law is to punish people who steal that which isn't theirs." is just tautological nonsense (the purpose of a law is to punish people who break it?)
[Comment at 02/04/2010 02:02 PM by Samuel Hora]
While it's true that the "progress clause" doesn't require America's only native criminal class--that would be Congress--to do anything, if we combine Rothbard's Law (the fact that governments seek to use whatever power they have) with rent seeking by the morally lower elements of life, and add a dash of public choice, then mix well and throw the resulting stew against the wall, we have pretty much our current intellectual monopoly monstrosity.
[Comment at 02/04/2010 07:32 PM by Bill Stepp]
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