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Posner Criticizes Intellectual Property Law
Posted by Steven Wu on Friday, November 22 @ 04:28:01 EST Copyright
As reported on News.com: In a lecture organized by the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution, Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner, a (very) prominent prominent and conservative legal scholar, sharply criticized expansions of copyright law such as the Copyright Terms Extension Act. He also criticized the patent office's trend of granting overly broad patents for business methods.

Read the article (with plenty of interesting details from Posner's speech) here.

 
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Re: Posner Criticizes Intellectual Property Law (Score: 1)
by bryan_taylor on Friday, November 22 @ 13:24:20 EST
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This is good news, but I believe Posner was one of the judges in the ProCD case, so it seems like an odd source, given that he is responsible for putting wind back in the sails of shrinkwrap contracts.

It is very good to see that he is sympathetic to Lessig and the anti-CTEA argument.


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