Professor Jessica Lichtman’s working paper and music sharing proposal is titled “Sharing and Stealing.”
My specific proposal is inspired by an impulse to see whether an architecture like the one that has permitted the Internet to flourish as an information space can define a thriving music space. The U.S. recording industry’s recent enforcement campaign seems to seek to move us in a very different direction.
This paper is a fun read.
Edward Felton, Martin Schwimmer, and others have already noted Professor Mark Lemley’s new paper that disparages the justification for ex-post IP incentives.
At the very least, Lemley misses the necessary ex-post first-publication incentives. Any coherent IP system gives an incentive to both create (ex-ante) and show your creation to the public (ex-post).