Following on what I posted earlier about the Republican Study Commission’s now-retracted Report on Copyright reform and what it might mean for a developing new consensus on the right about the failure(s) of current copyright policy. I should have noted there that the Mercatus Center is about to publish a book on this very topic (to which I have, incidentally, contributed a chapter) entitled “Copyright Unbalanced: From Incentive to Excess”). An idea that is clearly in the zeitgeist at the moment . . .