Restoring the Natural Law: Copyright as Labor and Possession
This Article advocates the restoration of the natural law to our copyright jurisprudence. Although eighteenth and nineteenth century thinkers were keenly aware of copyright’s natural law dimensions, modern copyright jurisprudence tends to view copyright strictly as a means of achieving economic efficiency. This approach finds support in United States Supreme Court pronouncements which state that copyright exists solely to provide economic incentives for the production of useful works.
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