{"id":992,"date":"2010-08-24T10:41:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T09:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=992"},"modified":"2010-08-24T10:41:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T09:41:01","slug":"copyright-greatly-reduced-european-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2010\/08\/24\/copyright-greatly-reduced-european-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Copyright greatly reduced European growth?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve long felt this intuitively to be true, but the weight of opinion and accepted “evidence” has made the idea laughable: Copyright has no social benefit.<\/p>\n

So this article in Spiegel Online is fascinating:<\/p>\n

No Copyright Law – The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion?<\/a><\/p>\n

(I’ve been in hospital recently, just catching up now on old posts, but I see other outlets such as Wired have finally caught-on to this too<\/a> – I haven’t read their take on this yet)<\/p>\n

It appears to be mostly centered on a contrast between two similarly advanced nations, England and Germany, which had radically different copyright laws at the time.<\/p>\n

“In Great Britain, people were dependent on the medieval method of hearsay for the dissemination of this useful, modern knowledge”, whereas “The prospect of a wide readership motivated scientists in particular to publish the results of their research”.<\/p>\n

…and so we see a key part of modern research and academia, the concept of publishing your work: born from the *abscence* of Copyright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve long felt this intuitively to be true, but the weight of opinion and accepted “evidence” has made the idea laughable: Copyright has no social benefit. So this article in Spiegel Online is fascinating: No Copyright Law – The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion? (I’ve been in hospital recently, just catching up now on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}