Re: Re: intellectual property

["Max Sawicky" <sawicky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Though such
> > material can apparently survive any intellectual
property regime, the
> > French had to reinstate copyrights to provide incentives
to produce more
> > substantive works. < [see:
> >
http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/columns/072700econ-
scene.html ]
> >
> > is this anecdote true? Michael P, what do you think of
Varian's analysis?
> > Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &
http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

It's not an all-or-nothing thing.  Copyright law is subject
to
gradations of tightness.  In principle you have as much
or as little as you like.

mbs