Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-2011
ISSN
0016-8076
Publisher
George Washington University
Language
en-US
Abstract
Justice Breyer began his classic article, The Uneasy Case for Copyright, with a line from Lord Macaulay, that copyright is "'a tax on readers for the purpose of giving a bounty to writers.'" Our society and its law values both writers and readers; the law cannot favor one side too much without losing some of the benefits the other side could have contributed. Make reading expensive and it will decrease, and readers might substitute less socially productive behaviors to take its place.
Recommended Citation
Wendy J. Gordon,
Fair Use Markets: On Weighing Potential License Fees
,
in
79
George Washington Law Review
1814
(2011).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/2055
Comments
Symposium Celebrating the Fourteenth Anniversary of Justice Breyer's Article: The Uneasy Case for Copyright: Supporting Creativity and its Dissemination: Alternative Ends, Alternative Means