Twice the read

How to Fix Copyright, which will be published next week by Oxford University Press, has already attracted a good deal of attention thanks to this piece on Bloomberg. The author, Bill Patry, is no stranger to copyright or to controversy, so this blogger for one looks forward to reading it.  This blog has already received a reader's comment on Patry's assertion that, "to make money in the world of digital abundance, you just have to sell more copies for lower prices". He observes:

"If all copyright-work makers were to halve the price of their work, they would need to sell more than twice as many copies. However, copyright works take time to consume and consumers have a limited amount of time available. Can they consume more than twice as much content? We are already spending a considerable portion of our time in front of a screen or with headphones on".

Readers' comments are, of course, welcome. One wonders how many categories of copyright-protected work would  not respond to this treatment.

Further details of How to Fix Copyight can be found on the OUP website here.