Wouldn’t we all be better off without copyright laws as they’re currently conceived? That’s the position of an International Herald-Tribune opinion piece. Co-writers Joost Smiers and Marijke van Schijndel (who were, presumably, paid for the article) argue that copyright is excessive and benefits “cultural monopolists,” who “desperately want us to believe that without copyright we would have no artistic creations and therefore no entertainment. That is nonsense. We would have more, and more diverse ones.” How exactly this would work, alas, may still be unclear even after you’ve read the piece.

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