Comments on: Richard Posner, Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline http://stevereads.com/weblog/2009/06/28/richard-posner-public-intellectuals-a-study-of-decline/ Books and policy from an endlessly curious perspective Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:04:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andrew S http://stevereads.com/weblog/2009/06/28/richard-posner-public-intellectuals-a-study-of-decline/comment-page-1/#comment-6445 Andrew S Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:42:51 +0000 http://stevereads.com/weblog/?p=5244#comment-6445 <p>"one of Posner’s biggest gripes about public intellectuals is that they too often venture outside of their areas of competence."</p> <p>Coincidently, Posner <a href="http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2009/06/the_future_of_n.html" rel="nofollow">recently wrote:</a> <i>Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, might be necessary to keep free riding on content financed by online newspapers from so impairing the incentive to create costly news-gathering operations</i></p> <p>Nice of Posner to become a perfect example of his gripe.</p> “one of Posner’s biggest gripes about public intellectuals is that they too often venture outside of their areas of competence.”

Coincidently, Posner recently wrote: Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, might be necessary to keep free riding on content financed by online newspapers from so impairing the incentive to create costly news-gathering operations

Nice of Posner to become a perfect example of his gripe.

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