<section id="piracy-i">
<title>Piracy I</title>
<indexterm><primary>Asia, commercial piracy in</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxcdsforeign' class='startofrange'>
+ <primary>CDs</primary>
+ <secondary>foreign piracy of</secondary>
+</indexterm>
<para>
All across the world, but especially in Asia and Eastern Europe, there
are businesses that do nothing but take others people's copyrighted
The physics of piracy of the intangible are different from the physics of
piracy of the tangible.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxcdsforeign' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
This argument is still very weak. However, although copyright is a
property right of a very special sort, it <emphasis>is</emphasis> a
<primary>artists</primary>
<secondary>retrospective compilations on</secondary>
</indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxcdroms' class='startofrange'>
+ <primary>CD-ROMs, film clips used in</primary>
+</indexterm>
<para>
Alben had a special interest in new technology. He was intrigued by
the emerging market for CD-ROM technology—not to distribute
year, how long would it take someone else? And how much creativity is
never made just because the costs of clearing the rights are so high?
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxcdroms' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm startref='idxartistsretrospective' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
These costs are the burdens of a kind of regulation. Put on a
Copyright Office's role to that of approving standards for marking
content that have been crafted elsewhere.
</para>
+<indexterm>
+ <primary>CDs</primary>
+ <secondary>copyright marking of</secondary>
+</indexterm>
<para>
For example, if a recording industry association devises a method for
marking CDs, it would propose that to the Copyright Office. The