Copyright abolition
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This article refers to movements to abolish or diminish Copyright restrictions on the flow of information.
Two economists at Washington University have said that copyrights and patents are a net loss for the economy because of the way they reduce competition in the free market.[1] They refer to copyrights and patents as intellectual monopolies, akin to industrial monopolies, and they advocate phasing out and eventually abolishing them http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm.
[edit] See also
- Public Domain
- Pirate Party
- Copyleft
- Free Software
- File Sharing
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Creative Commons
- Cory Doctorow
- Copywrong
- Copyfraud
- Patent troll
- Fair Use
- Free Culture Movement
- Anti-copyright
- Criticism of Intellectual Property
- Business_ethics#Intellectual_property
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