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Gandhi And Copyright Pragmatism, Shyamkrishna Balganesh
Gandhi And Copyright Pragmatism, Shyamkrishna Balganesh
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Mahatma Gandhi is revered the world over for his views on freedom and nonviolence – ideas that he deployed with great success during India’s freedom struggle. As a thinker, he is commonly considered to have been a moral idealist: anti-utilitarian in mindset and deeply skeptical of market mechanisms. Yet, when he engaged with copyright law – as a writer, editor, and publisher – he routinely abjured the idealism of his abstract thinking in favor of a lawyerly pragmatism. Characterized by a nuanced understanding of copyright law and its conflicting normative goals, Gandhi’s thinking on copyright law reveals a reasoned, contextual, …