Optimal Copyright Term Length

Forever Minus a Day?  Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright (Pdf), a presentation by Rufus Pollock, examines the history of copyright terms and determines that the optimal term length is about 14 years (half of what the original copyright term was in both England and the U.S.).

His full paper can be found here (Pdf).

found on The Patry Copyright Blog

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