Dave Barry on Humor, Writing, and Life as a Florida Man
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Is Humor a Public Good?
Humor is one area where the enforcement of intellectual property law tends to be weak, or may be even non existent. So there are always issues or problems with comedians stealing jokes from other people. Do you think it works having an area such as humour were basically ip law isn't applied? Or is humor this public good that is actually underproduced because we don't have property rights and jokes? Well, it's not underproduced. There's te plenty of it out there. Too many people at theyre consuming, not seeng in too many different forms.
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