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&lt;p&gt;Excellent guest post at the Freakonomics blog by law professors&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;Kal Raustiala of UCLA and and Chris Sprigman of UVA on the subject of copyright infringement, joke thievery, and social norms.&amp;nbsp; An excerpt:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Using informal group norms and sanctions, comedians are able to control joke-stealing. Without the intervention of copyright law, comedians are able to assert ownership of jokes, regulate their use and transfer, impose sanctions on joke-thieves, and maintain substantial incentives to invest in new material.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;This presents a challenge to the conventional economic rationale for intellectual property rights. Absent legal protection, the usual theory goes, there will be too few creative works produced &amp;mdash; authors and inventors would be unlikely to recoup their cost of creation, so they won&amp;rsquo;t bother creating in the first place.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Read the whole thing.&amp;nbsp; The professors use the infamous Joe Rogan/Carlos Mencia dustup as the post&amp;rsquo;s hook, but other notable comic plagiarism feuds have included David Brenner vs. Robin Williams, Louis CK vs. Dane Cook, and Bill Hicks vs. Denis Leary (language nsfw for all links).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align=&quot;right&quot;&gt; -posted by brian&lt;/p&gt;

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