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	<title>Comments on: Forever Minus a Day? Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright</title>
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		<title>By: Pajamas Media &#187; It’s a Wonderful Copyright Mess</title>
		<link>http://www.rufuspollock.org/2007/07/09/forever-minus-a-day-some-theory-and-empirics-of-optimal-copyright/comment-page-1/#comment-161408</link>
		<dc:creator>Pajamas Media &#187; It’s a Wonderful Copyright Mess</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;[...] years, renewable for 14 additional years. Rufus Pollock, an economist at Cambridge, mathematically concluded in 2007 that 14 years was the ideal length of copyright protection. As with most things, though, America [...]&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] years, renewable for 14 additional years. Rufus Pollock, an economist at Cambridge, mathematically concluded in 2007 that 14 years was the ideal length of copyright protection. As with most things, though, America [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Clarifying and Explaining &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Optimal Copyright Duration</title>
		<link>http://www.rufuspollock.org/2007/07/09/forever-minus-a-day-some-theory-and-empirics-of-optimal-copyright/comment-page-1/#comment-9319</link>
		<dc:creator>Clarifying and Explaining &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Optimal Copyright Duration</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;[...] Economics PhD student Rufus Pollock has written a paper on the optimal term length for copyrights. (Found via BoingBoing and Ars Technica.) Using economic models, he calculates the optimal term at 14 years, much less than the current &#8220;Sonny Bono&#8221; term of author&#8217;s life plus 70 years. Specifically, we demonstrate that (a) optimal copyright falls as the costs of production go down (for example as a result of digitization) and that (b) the optimal level of copyright will, in general, fall over time.  This work, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. [...]&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Economics PhD student Rufus Pollock has written a paper on the optimal term length for copyrights. (Found via BoingBoing and Ars Technica.) Using economic models, he calculates the optimal term at 14 years, much less than the current &#8220;Sonny Bono&#8221; term of author&#8217;s life plus 70 years. Specifically, we demonstrate that (a) optimal copyright falls as the costs of production go down (for example as a result of digitization) and that (b) the optimal level of copyright will, in general, fall over time.  This work, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Optimal copyright - The Relentless Stream of Consciousness</title>
		<link>http://www.rufuspollock.org/2007/07/09/forever-minus-a-day-some-theory-and-empirics-of-optimal-copyright/comment-page-1/#comment-8345</link>
		<dc:creator>Optimal copyright - The Relentless Stream of Consciousness</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;[...] Boing Boing post is here. Rufus Pollock&#8217;s blog post is here. Via BOL, here. [...]&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Boing Boing post is here. Rufus Pollock&#8217;s blog post is here. Via BOL, here. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: anon</title>
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		<dc:creator>anon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Steve Baker&lt;/b&gt; wrote, &lt;i&gt;If I buy land and build a house, I own it in perpetuity. There should be no economic difference between a tangible and an intangible asset.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;LOL!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You clearly know absolutely nothing about economics.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Land is the classic example of a factor of production giving rise to economic rent.  In fact, for reasons of justice &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; efficiency, people should never be able to &quot;own&quot; land in the sense of being able to reap the fruit of the land itself for free, because (a) they didn&#039;t create the land, and (b) they&#039;re excluding others from using the land.  (For more, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://geolib.com/essays/sullivan.dan/royallib.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Are you a Real Libertarian, or a ROYAL Libertarian?&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The reason that copyright should be limited is that it, like other so-called intellectual property rights, is a severe constraint on freedom---that&#039;s one of its most important costs.  On the other hand, its putative benefit (the one recognized in the US constitution, for example)---that of allowing the creation of works of art by allowing creators to recoup sunk (non-marginal costs)---can be realized without recourse to absurd measures like perpetual copyright.&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Steve Baker</b> wrote, <i>If I buy land and build a house, I own it in perpetuity. There should be no economic difference between a tangible and an intangible asset.</i></p>
<p>LOL!</p>
<p>You clearly know absolutely nothing about economics.</p>
<p>Land is the classic example of a factor of production giving rise to economic rent.  In fact, for reasons of justice <i>and</i> efficiency, people should never be able to &#8220;own&#8221; land in the sense of being able to reap the fruit of the land itself for free, because (a) they didn&#8217;t create the land, and (b) they&#8217;re excluding others from using the land.  (For more, see <a href="http://geolib.com/essays/sullivan.dan/royallib.html" rel="nofollow">&#8220;Are you a Real Libertarian, or a ROYAL Libertarian?</a>.)</p>
<p>The reason that copyright should be limited is that it, like other so-called intellectual property rights, is a severe constraint on freedom&#8212;that&#8217;s one of its most important costs.  On the other hand, its putative benefit (the one recognized in the US constitution, for example)&#8212;that of allowing the creation of works of art by allowing creators to recoup sunk (non-marginal costs)&#8212;can be realized without recourse to absurd measures like perpetual copyright.</p>
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		<title>By: Seegras Logbook &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Patents kill innovation</title>
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		<dc:creator>Seegras Logbook &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Patents kill innovation</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;[...] If you think this article lacks substance, anecdotes or hard data, please read Against Intellectual Monopoly which covers all the mentionned topics in detail. It even goes further than that, it also argues that the other intellectual monopoly &#8212; copyright &#8212; should be abolished as well. I&#8217;m not quite sure whether this is a good idea, but copyright has grown like fungus in the last few decades, and there is certainly something very wrong with it as well. Forever Minus a Day? argues that copyright should last 14 years after creation, no more. And I&#8217;d be happy with these 14 years and throw in a &#8220;renewable once for another 14 years&#8221; as a tradeoff, but I won&#8217;t agree to more than that. With patents, I won&#8217;t give in to anything else besides complete abolishment. [...]&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] If you think this article lacks substance, anecdotes or hard data, please read Against Intellectual Monopoly which covers all the mentionned topics in detail. It even goes further than that, it also argues that the other intellectual monopoly &#8212; copyright &#8212; should be abolished as well. I&#8217;m not quite sure whether this is a good idea, but copyright has grown like fungus in the last few decades, and there is certainly something very wrong with it as well. Forever Minus a Day? argues that copyright should last 14 years after creation, no more. And I&#8217;d be happy with these 14 years and throw in a &#8220;renewable once for another 14 years&#8221; as a tradeoff, but I won&#8217;t agree to more than that. With patents, I won&#8217;t give in to anything else besides complete abolishment. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: rgrp</title>
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		<dc:creator>rgrp</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Timothy Phillips: You are quite right. I did know this was a speech in the house (having read the transcript) and had simply meant to indicate was taking place during debate on the bill. Of course &#039;hearings&#039; have a quite specific meaning and I should therefore correct this as you suggest.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;StefanoC: thanks for the &#039;bug report&#039; and I will check that inequality out.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Thanks to everyone else who has made comments. They are all much appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Timothy Phillips: You are quite right. I did know this was a speech in the house (having read the transcript) and had simply meant to indicate was taking place during debate on the bill. Of course &#8216;hearings&#8217; have a quite specific meaning and I should therefore correct this as you suggest.</p>
<p>StefanoC: thanks for the &#8216;bug report&#8217; and I will check that inequality out.</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone else who has made comments. They are all much appreciated.</p>
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		<title>By: miscellaneous factZ &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues (SERCI) Annual Congress 2007</title>
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		<dc:creator>miscellaneous factZ &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues (SERCI) Annual Congress 2007</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;[...] Last week I was at the 2007 Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues (SERCI) Annual Congress (also acronymed under the label SERCIAC). The event was a nice size with a good mix of people, well organized (a big thank-you here to Christian Handke) and with many interesting presentations (some of which I was able to take notes on &#8212; see below). I also had the chance to present my paper on optimal copyright and get some useful feedback. I&#8217;ve already mentioned this in a previous post but for those interested you can find the slides from my talk here: [...]&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Last week I was at the 2007 Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues (SERCI) Annual Congress (also acronymed under the label SERCIAC). The event was a nice size with a good mix of people, well organized (a big thank-you here to Christian Handke) and with many interesting presentations (some of which I was able to take notes on &#8212; see below). I also had the chance to present my paper on optimal copyright and get some useful feedback. I&#8217;ve already mentioned this in a previous post but for those interested you can find the slides from my talk here: [...]</p>
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		<title>By: StefanoC</title>
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		<dc:creator>StefanoC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I think I found a typo: on page 11, &quot;consider what would occur if NU &gt;= 0&quot; should have &quot;NU &lt;= 0&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think I found a typo: on page 11, &#8220;consider what would occur if NU &gt;= 0&#8243; should have &#8220;NU &lt;= 0&#8243;</p>
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		<title>By: Rich Fiscus</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rich Fiscus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ve only skimmed through the paper, but it&#039;s an excellent read and I&#039;m recommending it to our readers. It&#039;s nice to see an even handed, scientific approach to the subject. This is the kind of thing we need more of to cut through the rhetoric on both sides.&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve only skimmed through the paper, but it&#8217;s an excellent read and I&#8217;m recommending it to our readers. It&#8217;s nice to see an even handed, scientific approach to the subject. This is the kind of thing we need more of to cut through the rhetoric on both sides.</p>
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		<title>By: Timothy Phillips</title>
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		<dc:creator>Timothy Phillips</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Technical point:  Mary Bono&#039;s &quot;forever less one day&quot; remark was made in a speech on the House floor, not in hearings as stated in footnote 1.&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Technical point:  Mary Bono&#8217;s &#8220;forever less one day&#8221; remark was made in a speech on the House floor, not in hearings as stated in footnote 1.</p>
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