{"product_id":"9780983607755","title":"Copyright Unbalanced: From Incentive to Excess","description":"Restoring the Balance between Protection and Innovation\u003cp\u003eThe Constitution gives Congress the power to establish copyright \"to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.\" This requires Congress to engage in a delicate balancing act, giving authors enough protection that they will be motivated to create expressive works, but not so much that it hampers innovation and public access to information. Yet over the past half-century Congress has routinely shifted the balance in only one direction-away from access and freedom and toward greater privileges for organized special interests.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConservatives and libertarians, who are naturally suspicious of big government, should be skeptical of an ever-expanding copyright system. They should also be skeptical of the recent trend toward criminal prosecution of even minor copyright infringements, of the growing use of civil asset forfeiture in copyright enforcement, and of attempts to regulate the Internet and electronics in the name of piracy eradication.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCopyright Unbalanced\u003c\/i\u003e is not a moral case for or against copyright; it is a pragmatic look at the excesses of the present copyright regime and of proposals to expand it further. It is a call for reform-to roll back the expansions and reinstate the limits that the Constitution's framers placed on copyright.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Editor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry Brito is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and director of its Technology Policy Program. He also serves as adjunct professor of law at Mason. He has written for both online and print publications, including the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReason\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWired.com\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArs Technica\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e. Brito is the co-author of \u003ci\u003eRegulation: A Primer\u003c\/i\u003e, with Susan Dudley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom W. Bell is a professor at Chapman University School of Law and an adjunct fellow of the Cato Institute. He is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eRegulators' Revenge: The Future of Telecommunications Deregulation\u003c\/i\u003e, with Solveig Singleton.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEli Dourado is a research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University with the Technology Policy Program.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTimothy B. Lee is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He covers technology policy for \u003ci\u003eArs Technica\u003c\/i\u003e and has written for both online and print publications, including \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReason\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWired.com\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristina Mulligan is a postdoctoral associate in law and a lecturer in law at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid G. Post is professor of law at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University, where he teaches intellectual property law and the law of cyberspace. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eCyberlaw: Problems of Policy and Jurisprudence in the Information Age\u003c\/i\u003e, with Paul Schiff Berman, Patricia Bellia, and Brett Frischmann. Post is a regular contributor to the influential \u003ci\u003eVolokh Conspiracy\u003c\/i\u003e blog.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatrick Ruffini is president of Engage, a digital media firm with clients including Fortune 500 companies, presidential and statewide candidates, technology startups, and issue advocacy campaigns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReihan Salam is a policy advisor at \u003ci\u003eEconomics 21\u003c\/i\u003e, a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e, a Reuters opinion columnist, and a CNN contributor. He is the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eGrand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSave the American Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, with Ross Douthat.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mercatus Center at George Mason University","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035799961840,"sku":"9780983607755","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780983607755_p0.jpg?v=1763894076","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780983607755","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}