Renewed Copyrights: Bad for America

Brian Doherty | December 6, 2007

Jeffrey Tucker at the Mises Institute, who do heroic and valuable work in both digitizing and selling printed copies of long out-of-print works of Austrian economic and libertarian interest, laments how former Sen. Robert Taft's family* hurt him, and posterity and intellectual history, by the simple act of renewing his copyright.

[*edited--I originally mistakenly wrote that it was Taft himself who renewed the copyright]