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Reexamining Copyright's Incentives-Access Paradigm, Glynn S. Lunney, Jr., Glynn Lunney
Reexamining Copyright's Incentives-Access Paradigm, Glynn S. Lunney, Jr., Glynn Lunney
Vanderbilt Law Review
For the past three centuries, defining the appropriate scope of copyright has entailed an examination of incentives and access.' Broadening the scope of copyright increases the incentive to produce works of authorship and results in a greater variety of such works. Broadening copyright's scope, however, also limits access to such works both generally, by increasing their price, and specifically, by limiting the material that others can use to create additional works. Given these competing considerations, defining copyright's proper scope has become a matter of balancing the benefits of broader protection, in the form of increased incentive to produce such works, …