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title: Copyrights are not helping creativity
date: "2003-01-31T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 971
description: I share an Economist article arguing that modern copyright laws fail to foster creativity as originally intended. The piece suggests these legal frameworks might actually be hindering the innovation they were designed to protect.
keywords: [copyright law, intellectual property, creativity, the economist, innovation, legal reform]
---

The Economist on how [copyrights aren't really helping creativity](http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1547223), which is what they were intended to do in the first place. [via andersja](http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2003/01/28/copyright_and_creative_commons_explained.html)