Dutch political scientist
Joost Smiers (born 1943, Amsterdam) is a Dutch political scientist, best known as an opponent of copyright.
Smiers received his Ph.D.in Political Science in 1977 from the University of Amsterdam. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Political Science of the Arts and a Research Fellow in the Research Group Arts &amp; Economics at the Utrecht School of the Arts, where he served as Professor from 1985 until his retirement in 2007.