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Economist Article on Copyright Protection
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posted by scubacuda
on Wednesday January 29, @02:16AM
from the content-providers-still-in-a-bind dept.
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The Economist article, A Fine Balance, asks:
How much copyright protection does the internet need? While Jessica Litman's recommendation to abandon regulation attempts, William Fisher's proposal to tax access to the Internet and electronic equipment, and Larry Lessig's reregistration of copyright may be "ingenious," they are still "imperfect." (Litman's resulting in a "wave of litigation"; Fisher's, in "large-scale government intervention"; and Lessig's, in more "governmental meddling" and "constant disputes" of the terms of his compulsory licensing) The article concludes: "Certainly, the content industries are likely to experience the most upheaval. They may be able to retard the growth of copying on the internet for a time, but they cannot hold back the advance of technology altogether. This will undermine their existing business models, based as they are on print, analogue broadcasting and the sale of physical products such as compact discs. Even if the “total copyright protection” scenario sketched above prevails, content providers will have to reinvent themselves."
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