It’s science. Deal with it. We hear an awful lot about how copyrights on creative works “stifle innovation,” preventing new business opportunities from launching or thriving. And the self-serving advocates of these “new” ideas love to describe those of us who question their proposals as anti-technology, anti-progress, stuck in old models, and so on. But the idea that a digital ...
More than a decade ago, a book editor managing her own imprint at one of the big publishing houses gave me some insight into her world that I’ll never forget. “I have to publish about five diet books,” she told me, “in order to invest in one new novelist.” It’s important to understand that this is not a comment on ...
When it comes to free expression, the rule of thumb I assume most of us apply is “the more the merrier,” and this is certainly my own default position. But there’s no question that there is a prickly side to this principle that goes beyond mere aesthetics. After all, this principle was the central argument made by Justice Scalia in ...
