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Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment
enlarge	Author: William Fisher III Publisher: Stanford Law and Politics Category: eBooks In Stock Sales Rank: 215,075 Format: Kindle Book Media: Kindle Edition Edition: 1 Pages: 352 Number Of Items: 1 Dewey Decimal Number: 346.730482 ASIN: B002AKJ8CO Publication Date: August 12, 2004


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Editorial Reviews: Product Description During the past fifteen years, changes in the technologies used to make and store audio and video recordings, combined with the communication revolution associated with the Internet, 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 proposalseach involving a combination of legal reforms and new business modelsfor how we could get out of it.