... was designed with three considerations in mind, to compensate authors and thus encourage new works by giving them property rights, to encourage publishers to print books, and to decrease the price of books by putting a time limit of fourteen years on the rights, thus seeking to increase production and lower prices while adequetly compensating the publishers and authors in accordance with their costs. The time limit of these rights is how the balance between the rights of the author and end users are balanced. Since then governments have taken a very strong Deontological view by extending the rights to the life of the author plus 20-50 years depending on country. As McFarland discusses1 in his essay these rights could be justified under Locke's theory of labour and the personality theory. Locke's theory seems reasonable although still raises some contentious issues and problems - under that premise for example, would ...

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