Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment / Edition 1

Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment / Edition 1

by William W. Fisher III
ISBN-10:
080475845X
ISBN-13:
9780804758451
Pub. Date:
09/10/2007
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
ISBN-10:
080475845X
ISBN-13:
9780804758451
Pub. Date:
09/10/2007
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment / Edition 1

Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment / Edition 1

by William W. Fisher III
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Overview

During the past fifteen years, changes in technology have generated an extraordinary array of new ways in which music and movies can be produced and distributed. Both the creators and the consumers of entertainment products stand to benefit enormously from the new systems. Sadly, we have failed thus far to avail ourselves of these opportunities. Instead, much energy has been devoted to interpreting or changing legal rules in hopes of defending older business models against the threats posed by the new technologies. These efforts to plug the multiplying holes in the legal dikes are failing and the entertainment industry has fallen into crisis. This provocative book chronicles how we got into this mess and presents three alternative proposals—each involving a combination of legal reforms and new business models—for how we could get out of it.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780804758451
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 09/10/2007
Edition description: 1
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

William W. Fisher III is the Hale and Dorr Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsix
Introduction1
1The Promise of the New Technology11
2The Baseline: Entertainment Law and Practice in 199038
3What Went Awry82
4Taking Property Rights Seriously134
5Online Entertainment as a Regulated Industry173
6An Alternative Compensation System199
AppendixWhere Does the Money Go?259
Notes265
Index321
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