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@@ -2914,7 +2914,9 @@ limits imposed by Victor on phonographs, see Randal C. Picker, From
Edison to the Broadcast Flag: Mechanisms of Consent and Refusal and
the Propertization of Copyright
(September 2002), University of
Chicago Law School, James M. Olin Program in Law and Economics,
-Working Paper No. 159.
+Working Paper No. 159.
+From Edison to the Broadcast Flag,
++ books +total number of +It looks like there's about two to three million recordings of music. Ever. There are about a hundred thousand theatrical releases of @@ -6387,6 +6394,8 @@ market. But does anyone believe we should regulate remotes to reinforce commercial television? (Maybe by limiting them to function only once a second, or to switch to only ten channels within an hour?) ++ Brezhnev, Leonid Gates, Bill The obvious answer to these obviously rhetorical questions is no. In a free society, with a free market, supported by free enterprise and @@ -6407,7 +6416,6 @@ not only the market but also the government is a world in which competitors with new ideas will not succeed. It is a world of stasis and increasingly concentrated stagnation. It is the Soviet Union under Brezhnev. - Gates, Bill Thus, while it is understandable for industries threatened with new @@ -6462,13 +6470,12 @@ production is a good thing. No one doubts that the work of Müller was important and valuable and probably saved lives, possibly millions. + Carson, Rachel Silent Sprint (Carson) But in 1962, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring , which argued that DDT, whatever its primary benefits, was also having unintended environmental consequences. Birds were losing the ability to reproduce. Whole chains of the ecology were being destroyed. -- Carson, Rachel Silent Sprint (Carson) No one set out to destroy the environment. Paul Müller certainly did @@ -9460,6 +9467,7 @@ of content. One obvious response to this efficiency is thus to make the Internet less efficient. If the Internet enables +piracy,then, this response says, we should break the kneecaps of the Internet.broadcast flag The examples of this form of legislation are many. At the urging of the content industry, some in Congress have threatened legislation that @@ -9576,6 +9584,7 @@ available at But there is one example that captures the flavor of them all. This is the story of the demise of Internet radio. @@ -14244,6 +14253,7 @@ Rockies—you can instantaneously be connected to the Internet. Imagine the Internet as ubiquitous as the best cell-phone service, where with the flip of a device, you are connected. +link #44 .Berman, Howard L. + Hollings, Fritz broadcast flag cell phones, music streamed over In that world, it will be extremely easy to connect to services that give you access to content on the fly—such as Internet radio, @@ -14666,6 +14676,7 @@ away from areas that we know it will only harm. And that is precisely what the law will too often do if too much of our culture is left to its review. +Brezhnev, Leonid Think about the amazing things your kid could do or make with digital technology—the film, the music, the Web page, the blog. Or think