[Irtalk] Copyright and Inequality by Lea Shaver :: SSRN

[Hilton Gibson]

The prevailing theory of copyright law imagines a marketplace efficiently
serving up new works to an undifferentiated world of consumers. Yet the
reality is that all consumers are not equal. The majority of the world’s
people experience copyright law not as a boon to consumer choice, but as a
barrier to acquiring knowledge and taking part in cultural life. The
resulting patterns of privilege and disadvantage, moreover, reinforce and
perpetuate preexisting social divides. Class and culture combine to explain
who wins, and who loses, from copyright protection.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2398373
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