Big Copyright Versus the People

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By Martin Skladany *01

Published July 24, 2018

Copyright law was created to ensure that individuals may profit from the results of their creativity. Big Copyright Versus the People: How Major Content Providers Are Destroying Creativity and How to Stop Them (Cambridge University Press) argues that large corporations have co-opted copyright to stifle personal creativity and build culturally-damaging media empires.

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