Ernie Miller has been having an exchange with PFF’s James DeLong over the latter’s statement that “‘collective licensing or a media levy’ is a euphemism for turning creativity into a socialist gulag.” Improbably, DeLong defends the analogy, which Ernie says comes pretty close to an instantiation of Godwin’s Law. Note that Ernie is not a booster of compulsory or collective licensing, and neither am I, in most circumstances.

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