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Harvard Professor: Abolish Copyright for Academic Works

Written by Andrew Rens on July 25th, 2009

A Harvard Professor of Law and Economics, Prof Stephen Shavell argues that proponents of open access leave copyright law essentially unchanged.
Instead he argues that it would be more efficient to simply abolish copyright in academic work altogether since academics do not benefit from copyright. Instead academics will continue to benefit as they already do, from gains in status as a result of their work.

 

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