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Is Copying Actually GOOD? Copycats vs. Copyrights - Protection from Knockoffs for the Fashion Industry in the U.S.A.

By Andis Kaulins

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Ezra Klein at Newsweek in Copycats vs. Copyrights: Does it make sense to legally protect the fashion industry from knockoffs? asks:

"What if copying, despite what your teacher always told you, is ... good?

...

'Intellectual property is legalized monopoly,' says James Boyle, a professor at Duke Law School. 'And like any monopoly, its tendency is to raise prices and diminish availability. We should have a high burden of proof for whether it?s necessary.'

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Copyright law is supposed to help consumers by protecting innovation, not producers by protecting profits. If we?re not having an innovation problem, we?re not having a problem that needs to be fixed through copyright."

Nice article, read the whole thing.

Full post as published by LawPundit on August 22, 2010 (boomark / email).

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