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[Cc-uk] FW: Optimal term of copyright

From: "Damian Tambini" <damian.tambini AT socio-legal-studies.oxford.ac.uk>
To: "'CCUK Coordinators list'" <cc-uk-coord AT lists.okfn.org>, <cc-uk AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [Cc-uk] FW: Optimal term of copyright
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:39:24 +0100

A couple economists at the Federal Reserve concluded that the optimal term of copyright should be between 5 and 10 years.

http://lev0111.dklevine.com/papers/scale22.pdf (page 24)

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