True in some cases, where I think copyright is or can be good policy. But not true in many cases, where copyright creates market failures, rather than solving them.
Cool, what’s the premise?
Brian L. Frye
Brian L. Frye
The metaphysics of the law are hard.🤷♂️
Yes, but they also have an incentive to target similar but non-confusing products, in order to prevent competition, thereby harming consumers.
I think it actually does a fair amount of work! But it’s unfortunately unreliable in the edge cases where it’s most visible.
But other than that, how was the play?
Lessig.
Brian L. Frye
They both are. But the first is clunkier.
When it comes to public goods, free riding is statically efficient, but might be dynamically inefficient.