The constitutional rationale was that, if authors were guaranteed the fruits of their labor, they would be encouraged to write more. In today's world, it is publishers not authors that hold copyright. And the dominant view of lawmakers is that the "limited time" that copyright should be in effect is quite long.
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Pam Samuelson's papers Julie Cohen's papers Cohen, Julie, Lochner in Cyberspace: The New Economic Orthodoxy of ÎRights Management', 97 Mich. L. Rev. 462 (1998). Cohen, Julie, A Right to Read Anonymously: A Closer Look at ÎCopyright Managementâ in Cyberspace, 28 Conn. L. Rev. 981 (1996) James Boyle's IP website Town Meeting on Copyright and Fair Use, College Art Association, Toronto, Feb 26, 1998 Besser, Howard, Recent Changes to Copyright: Attacks Against the Public Interest, November 1999 (a longer version of what appears in March 1999 Peace Review) Besser, Howard (Talk), The Erosion of Public Protection: Attacks on the Concept of Fair Use Barlow, John Perry, Selling Wine Without Bottles: The Economy of Mind on the Global Net Raymond, Eric S. The Cathedral and the Bazaar 1997 (the Linux model of Open-SourceSoftware) Free Software Foundation and Richard Stallman's article Why Software Should Not Have Owners Heins, Marjorie. "The Progress of Science & Useful Arts" Why Copyright Today Threatens Intellectual Freedom, a Public Policy Report, Free Expression Policy Project (last updated Sept 21, 2004)
Nadel, Mark S. How Current Copyright Law Discourages Creative Output: The Overlooked Impact of Marketing, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 19, pp. 785-856, Spring 2004
Demac, Donna, Property Rights in the Electronic Dawn Lynn, M. Stuart, Copyright and Cyberlocks Image DB class student papers on Intellectual Property
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