Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment (Paperback)
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Short Description for Promises to Keep During the past fifteen years, changes in the technologies used to make and store audio and video recordings, combined with the communication revolution associated with the Internet, have generated an extraordinary array of new ways in which music and movies can be produced and distributed. Both the creators and the consumers of entertainment products stand to benefit enormously from the new syste
Full description- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- Published: 15 October 2007
- Format: Paperback 352 pages
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- Categories: Popular Culture | Media, Information & Communication Industries | Commercial Law | Entertainment & Media Law | Ethical & Social Aspects Of Computing
- ISBN 13: 9780804758451 ISBN 10: 080475845X
- Sales rank: 864,074
Full description for Promises to Keep
During the past fifteen years, changes in technology have generated an extraordinary array of new ways in which music and movies can be produced and distributed. Both the creators and the consumers of entertainment products stand to benefit enormously from the new systems. Sadly, we have failed thus far to avail ourselves of these opportunities. Instead, much energy has been devoted to interpreting or changing legal rules in hopes of defending older business models against the threats posed by the new technologies. These efforts to plug the multiplying holes in the legal dikes are failing and the entertainment industry has fallen into crisis. This provocative book chronicles how we got into this mess and presents three alternative proposals?each involving a combination of legal reforms and new business models?for how we could get out of it.
