Unacceptable Costs: The Consequences of Making Knowledge Property in a Global Society
- 1 April 2002
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Global Society
- Vol. 16 (2) , 123-144
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09537320220132893
Abstract
If we think of an author as having a natural right to profit from his work, then we will think of the copier as some sort of thief; whereas if we think of the author as beneficiary of a statutory monopoly, it may be easier to see the copier as an embodiment of free enterprise valuesKeywords
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