Copyright law was once an esoteric backwater, the special province
of professional authors, publishers, and entertainment companies,
but it now impacts everyone who uses the Internet or consumes
cultural expression on a computer, mobile phone, or personal
tablet. Copyright has come to be immensely controversial as well.
For instance, the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA),
copyright-industry backed legislation met its defeat at the hands
of a popular outcry spearheaded by Google, Wikipedia, and other
online aggregators of content and information. SOPA and other such
initiatives would target the massive online piracy that threatens
the economic viability of newspapers, movie studios, record labels,
and book publishers. But the copyright industries' arguably
heavy-handed response threatens to chill the free-wheeling
wellspring of online creativity, expression, and ready access to
information upon which we have all come to rely. To navigate the
shoals of these opposing, equally dim prospects is a complex
undertaking. No less daunting, even for the educated layperson, is
to understand the legal framework, policy arguments, industry
economics, legislative proposals, and judicial decisions that fuel
the copyright debate. In Copyright: What Everyone Needs to Know
(R), law professor Neil Netanel guides readers through the murky
dynamics of modern copyright law, answering questions about topics
such as the new challenges posed by the digital environment,
copyright and piracy in the global marketplace, and proposals for
future reform. From the basis and purpose of copyright law to a
glimpse at what the law could - or should - become in the digital
age, Netanel offers the necessary tools for following the debates
that have raged everywhere from internet forums to the halls of
Congress.
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