What If Copyright Only Applied To Commercial Use?

Courtesy Techdirt  Thu, 06/12/2008 - 14:30

Earlier this week, we wrote about the Cato Institute's new series on the Future of Copyright, with a wonderful first post about just how broken copyright has become, written by Rasmus Fleischer.

Our own Timothy Lee has now penned the second piece in the series, wondering if a middle ground would be to just focus copyright laws on commercial use , and allow people to make use of copyrighted content for personal use.

As he notes, throughout most...

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