How Copyright Makes Culture Disappear

Posted by BernardSwiss on Jan 3, 2015 8:04 PM EDT
Techdirt; By Mike Masnick
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A few years ago, we wrote about some research by Paul Heald that did an astounding job visually demonstrating how much copyright law today harms the dissemination of content. The key graphic was the following one: What it shows is that while new books are available for sale, they quickly go out of print and are basically not available -- until you get down to 1923, at which point the works are in the public domain.

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