The old political centrism died in the 2010s, and it deserved to. A new movement
may be rising from the ashes but to defeat the extremists and populists it must
be prepared to get radical
The following is an excerpt from In Defence of Copyright by Hugh Stephens (Cormorant Books, August 2023) Copyright has been developed over the past three hundred years, drawing on both a utilitarian, economic rationale rooted in common law and a moral, property rights argument based on continental civil law traditions. It has expanded from limited