Michele Boldrin is Joseph Gibson Hoyt Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences and Professor of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis, with research specialties in economic growth and economic theory. David K. Levine is John H. Biggs Distinguished Professor of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis, with research specialties in game theory and general equilibrium theory. Boldrin and Levine are co-authors of the book Against Intellectual Monopoly (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
The financial distress, or lack of distress, of musicians has nothing to do with the purpose of copyright. We, wild anti-copyright theorists, have now been joined by many sober practitioners in our analysis pointing out the real issues.