More and More Research Showing That the Assumptions Underpinning Copyright Law Are Fundamentally Wrong
26th September 2013
For years, we’ve been arguing against faith-based policy making when it comes to intellectual property. This is the belief that “if some intellectual property is good, more must be better,” when it’s never been established that the fundamental principle is true in the first place.
Which it isn’t, of course. The reason we have patents and copyrights is because they represented an improvement over the old arbitrary monopolies that monarchs would often grant their friends. Increasingly they act as a barrier to innovation and progress, as is the case with every government-granted privilege.