</chapter>
<chapter label="2" id="mere-copyists">
<title>CHAPTER TWO: <quote>Mere Copyists</quote></title>
+<indexterm id='idxcameratech' class='startofrange'>
+ <primary>camera technology</primary>
+</indexterm>
<indexterm id="idxphotography" class='startofrange'>
<primary>photography</primary>
</indexterm>
Based on a chart in Jenkins, p. 178.
</para></footnote>
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxcameratech' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm><primary>Coe, Brian</primary></indexterm>
<para>
growth in a democratic technology of expression would have been
realized.
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>camera technology</primary></indexterm>
<para>
<emphasis role='strong'>If you drive</emphasis> through San
Francisco's Presidio, you might see two gaudy yellow school buses
</section>
<section id="cabletv">
<title>Cable TV</title>
+<indexterm id='idxcabletv1' class='startofrange'>
+ <primary>cable television</primary>
+</indexterm>
<para>
-
Cable TV was also born of a kind of piracy.
</para>
<para>
companies thus built their empire in part upon a <quote>piracy</quote> of the value
created by broadcasters' content.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxcabletv1' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
<emphasis role='strong'>These separate stories</emphasis> sing a
common theme. If <quote>piracy</quote> means using value from someone
creativity it broadcast), Congress rejected their claim. An indirect
benefit was enough.
</para>
+<indexterm id='idxcabletv2' class='startofrange'>
+ <primary>cable television</primary>
+</indexterm>
<para>
Cable TV followed the pattern of record albums. When the courts
rejected the claim that cable broadcasters had to pay for the content
<emphasis>compensation</emphasis> without giving the past
(broadcasters) control over the future (cable).
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxcabletv2' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm><primary>Betamax</primary></indexterm>
<para>
In the same year that Congress struck this balance, two major
</para>
<informaltable id="t1">
-<tgroup cols="4" align="char">
+<tgroup cols="4" align="left">
<thead>
<row>
<entry>CASE</entry>
</para>
<indexterm><primary>railroad industry</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>advertising</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>camera technology</primary></indexterm>
<para>
But just because a particular interest asks for government support, it
doesn't follow that support should be granted. And just because
These changes are of two sorts: the scope of concentration, and its
nature.
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>cable television</primary></indexterm>
<para>
Changes in scope are the easier ones to describe. As Senator John
McCain summarized the data produced in the FCC's review of media
market's revenues. Overall, just four companies control 90 percent of
the nation's radio advertising revenues.
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>cable television</primary></indexterm>
<para>
Newspaper ownership is becoming more concentrated as well. Today,
there are six hundred fewer daily newspapers in the United States than
</para>
<informaltable id="t2">
-<tgroup cols="3" align="char">
+<tgroup cols="3" align="left">
<thead>
<row>
<entry></entry>
</para>
<informaltable id="t3">
-<tgroup cols="3" align="char">
+<tgroup cols="3" align="left">
<thead>
<row>
<entry></entry>
</para>
<informaltable id="t4">
-<tgroup cols="3" align="char">
+<tgroup cols="3" align="left">
<thead>
<row>
<entry></entry>
</para>
<informaltable id="t5">
-<tgroup cols="3" align="char">
+<tgroup cols="3" align="left">
<thead>
<row>
<entry></entry>
</para>
<blockquote>
<indexterm><primary>BMW</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>cars, MP3 sound system in</primary></indexterm>
<para>
I asked why, with all the storage capacity and computer power in
the car, there was no way to play MP3 files. I was told that BMW
on-line.
</para>
<indexterm><primary>Asia, commercial piracy in</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>cable television</primary></indexterm>
<para>
This competition has already occurred against the background of <quote>free</quote>
music from p2p systems. As the sellers of cable television have known
disappeared, you will be redirected to an appropriate reference for
the material.
</para>
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+<!-- insert endnotes here -->
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</chapter>