-Now, you might think this is a close case, and I think the courts would
-consider it a close case. My point here is to map the change that gives
-Disney this power. Before the Internet, Disney couldn't really control
-how people got access to their content. Once a video was in the
- marketplace,
-the "first-sale doctrine" would free the seller to use the video as he
-wished, including showing portions of it in order to engender sales of the
-entire movie video. But with the Internet, it becomes possible for Disney
-to centralize control over access to this content. Because each use of the
-Internet produces a copy, use on the Internet becomes subject to the
-copyright owner's control. The technology expands the scope of effective
-control, because the technology builds a copy into every transaction.
+Now, you might think this is a close case, and I think the courts
+would consider it a close case. My point here is to map the change
+that gives Disney this power. Before the Internet, Disney couldn't
+really control how people got access to their content. Once a video
+was in the marketplace, the "first-sale doctrine" would free the
+seller to use the video as he wished, including showing portions of it
+in order to engender sales of the entire movie video. But with the
+Internet, it becomes possible for Disney to centralize control over
+access to this content. Because each use of the Internet produces a
+copy, use on the Internet becomes subject to the copyright owner's
+control. The technology expands the scope of effective control,
+because the technology builds a copy into every transaction.
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