Economics Questions

Re: Copyright Law

scineram — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:57:49 GMT

And what if others hear or read it?

Re: Copyright Law

TropicalK — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:36:58 GMT

I is conceivable that a mutually benefitial contractional agreement would include a prohibition of copying. With the music industry for example, I sell you a song I made as long as you agree not to disseminate it in any fashion. Both sides gain. Copyright in some respects is just the government enforcing a private contract.

Re: Copyright Law

scineram — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:09:49 GMT

Exactly. Not to mention he completely disregards uncontracted third parties.

Re: Copyright Law

JonBostwick — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:40:31 GMT

Anonymous Coward:

Another important point: in our title-transfer model, a person should be able to sell not only the full title of ownership to property, but also part of that property, retaining the rest for himself or others to whom he grants or sells that part of the title. Thus, as we have seen above, common-law copyright is justified as the author or publisher selling all rights to his property except the right to resell it... The only proviso is that there must, at every time, be some existing owner or owners of all the rights to any given property.

Rothbard's view on the subject from The Ethics of Liberty, ch 19.

Thats a very weak justification. It does nothing to explain why selling a copy of a book is equivalent to reselling the original.

It presumes that the ideas on the page are a seperate piece of property from the physical book, yet thats the entire point of debate!

Re: Copyright Law

solos — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:46:00 GMT

What rights are there in a free market? Other companies that are not bound by the contract could just use the same material without paying. I don't see how copyright is any beneficial to society.

Re: Copyright Law

Anonymous Coward — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:58:47 GMT

Another important point: in our title-transfer model, a person should be able to sell not only the full title of ownership to property, but also part of that property, retaining the rest for himself or others to whom he grants or sells that part of the title. Thus, as we have seen above, common-law copyright is justified as the author or publisher selling all rights to his property except the right to resell it... The only proviso is that there must, at every time, be some existing owner or owners of all the rights to any given property.

Rothbard's view on the subject from The Ethics of Liberty, ch 19.

Re: Copyright Law

liberty student — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:08:45 GMT

http://www.stephankinsella.com/ip/

hth

Copyright Law

Mr Jones — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:15:09 GMT

This has probably been asked before -- or answered in an article somewhere -- so I don't mind a hyperlink as an answer to my question:

What is the theory regarding copyright law? I know that it is a very complicated branch of the law; but I would be interested to know what has been said about it -- especially in terms of Bastiat's law philosophy.

Thank you.