Bartlett Cleland (director of the Institute for Policy Innovation Center for Technology Freedom) in The Hill:

property rights: Congress must be skeptical of efforts to define property rights as antithetical to consumers’ interests. In fact, copyright contributes mightily to the incentive to create — knowing that one can profit from talents, intelligence or creativity. We cannot allow others to steal with impunity. Just the theft of movies costs our economy $20.5 billion a year, more than 141,000 jobs annually and $837 million in lost tax revenue a year. Imagine adding in all the copyrighted industries.

posted by James DeLong @ 11:48 AM | Legislation and Legislators

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