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May 30, 2005
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Feeling Guilty About Free-Riding
Economics Professor Bryan Caplan discusses human reaction to people who give away free stuff on EconLog (Don't Do Me Any Favors). How is this relevant to copyright?
Public goods problems are less of a problem than we usually think because people are inherently uncomfortable with free-riding. Our emotional constitution urges us to repay favors.
This is one of the reasons I think the the private/public distribution distinction in copyright can work, if properly reinforced. It is this behavior that will help to shape appropriate
copynorms. Read the whole thing.
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Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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