Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2002
Abstract
When we examine the question whether copyright needs redesign to stretch it around digital technology, we can look at the issues from a number of different vantage points. First, there is the viewpoint of current copyright stakeholders: today’s market leaders in copyright-affected industries. Their businesses are grounded on current copyright practice; their income streams rely on current copyright rules. Most of them would prefer that the new copyright rules for new copyright-affecting technologies be designed to enable current stakeholders to retain their dominance in the marketplace.
Publication Information & Recommended Citation
Litman, Jessica D. "Revising Copyright Law for the Information Age." In Copy Fights: The Future of Intellectual Property in the Information Age, edited by Adams Thierer and Wayne Crews, 125-145. Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2002. (Originally published under the same title in Or. L. Rev. 75 (1996).)
Comments
Reproduced with permission. Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.