My conclusion is that market forces and technology have moved well beyond our current laws and are now in conflict with them. Copyright laws arose out of eighteenth-century markets and technologies, the most important characteristic of which was artificial scarcity. Artificial scarcity was created by a small number of gatekeepers, by relatively high barriers to entry and by analog limitations on unauthorized copying. Artificial scarcity was important because it created monopoly value: not profits earned above costs of production, but rather profits disconnected to costs. Those profits were dependent on the creation, and legal enforcement of artificial scarcity through copyright laws. This is the environment in which copyright, at least Anglo-American copyright, arose.
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Esta cita es parte del libro “How to Fix Copyright” de William Patry.
