Copyright abolition
The term "copyright abolition movements" refers to movements to abolish copyright, specifically those that espouse the repeal of the Statute of Anne and all subsequent law made in its support.
Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, economists at Washington University, have suggested 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.[2]
Copyright and Patents are widely rejected among anarchists, left communists and free market libertarians.
See also
- Public domain
- Pirate Party
- Permissive software licence
- File sharing
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
- Creative Commons
- Cory Doctorow
- Copyright alternatives
- Copyright misuse
- Copyfraud
- Patent troll
- Fair use
- Free-culture movement
- Freedom of information
- Information wants to be free
- Opposition to copyright
- Culture vs. Copyright
- Intellectual property#Criticisms
- Business ethics#Intellectual property
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