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Copyright and the Perfect Curve
Overview Everyone agrees that the purpose of the copyright system is to promote progress. At the same time, though, skepticism about the law’s ability to define the substance of progress runs deep within copyright case law and theory. Legal decisionmakers and scholars have quite properly doubted their own ability to evaluate artistic or literary merit, and have worried that efforts to do so would result in an inappropriately elitist and conservative standard. In addition, there is room for substantial debate about whether the metaphor of forward motion leaves out other important measures of what “progress” is or might be.
| Publisher | Georgetown University | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | January 2000 | Downloads | 2 |
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