Quote by Lawrence Lessig

You can't incent a dead person. No matter what we do, Hawthorne will not produce any more works, no matter how much we pay him.

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Debate with Jack Valenti at Harvard University Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society (1 October 2000) - referring to the claim that extending the period of copyright protection that government granted to people long dead is in the economic interest of the country.

Categories: economics

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