The New Perverted Reverse Value Theory of Copyright

Candidates for a unified theory justifying copyright in all its manifestations include the value of the copyright owner’s efforts in creating the work. This value can take a natural rights form–the value of genius–but it can also take the more mundane Lockean agricultural form–copyright owners are the sowers of their intellectual labor.

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