If it is correct about the origin and shaping of copyright law, then the author has a point.<p>I am a woman. I got married at 19 to another 19 year old. We both made choices that supported him having a career and undermined me having one. After we had been married a few years, I wanted to live in another city to finish my college degree. I was told I was trying to destroy the marriage. I rebutted that with &quot;You go away all the time because of your job.&quot; I was told that was different, someone had to support the family.<p>He could not acknowledge that he and I de facto had different &quot;rights&quot; in the relationship and the expectations that drove that were gender based -- i.e. sexist.<p>Be very leery of saying that the intellectual property rights laws of a culture that overwhelmingly lines the pockets of whites and keeps blacks poor is race neutral and the different outcomes are mere coincidence or happenstance.