The time limit on copyright: an unlikely tragedy of the intellectual commons
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Keywords
Intellectual property; Copyright extension; Richard Posner; Indefinitely renewable copyright; Tragedy of the commons; Congestion externalities; Overexploitation; Overgrazing; Blurring; Tarnishment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- K11 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Property Law
- O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
- D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
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