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@@ -8086,6 +8086,7 @@ times. But that obligation (and the limits for creating that
obligation) would come from the contract, not from copyright law, and
the obligations of contract would not necessarily pass to anyone who
subsequently acquired the book.
+contracts
When my e-book of Middlemarch says I have the
permission to copy only ten text selections into the memory every ten
@@ -10100,6 +10101,10 @@ that will obviously and necessarily stifle new innovation. It is hard
enough to start a company. It is impossibly hard if that company is
constantly threatened by litigation.
+market constraints
+permission culturetransaction cost of
+regulationoutsize penalties of
+technologylegal murkiness on
@@ -10116,7 +10121,6 @@ innovation. If innovation is constantly checked by this uncertain and
unlimited liability, we will have much less vibrant innovation and
much less creativity.
-market constraints
The point is directly parallel to the crunchy-lefty point about fair
use. Whatever the real
law is, realism about the effect of law in
@@ -10148,6 +10152,8 @@ within a permission culture are enough to bury a wide range of
creativity. Someone needs to do a lot of justifying to justify that
result.
+
+
The uncertainty of the law is one
burden on innovation. There is a second burden that operates more