Should Copyright Of Academic Works Be Abolished?

The conventional rationale for copyright of written works, that copyright is needed to foster their creation, is seemingly of limited applicability to the academic domain. For in a world without copyright of academic writing, academics would still benefit from publishing in the major way that they do now, namely, from gaining scholarly esteem.
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5505


Adding up the Music Industry for 2008

So when Will Page, the Chief Economist for PRS for Music, a UK-based royalty collecting group for music writers, composers, and publishers, publishes a study concluding total music industry revenues are up 4.7% since 2007 it corroborates what many studies have shown, that P2P actually increases music consumption.

comment: http://www.zeropaid.com/news/86724/uk-music-economist-says-music-industry-revenue-up-4-7/
paper: http://www.prsformusic.com/creators/news/research/Documents/Will%20Page%20and%20Chris%20Carey%20(2009)%20Adding%20Up%20The%20Music%20Industry%20for%202008.pdf