Copyright's Paradox

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Author: Neil Weinstock Netanel ISBN: 9780199881321
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Publication: March 29, 2008
Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA Language: English
Author: Neil Weinstock Netanel
ISBN: 9780199881321
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication: March 29, 2008
Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English

Providing a vital economic incentive for much of society's music art and literature copyright is widely considered "the engine of free expression"--but it is also used to stifle news reporting political commentary historical scholarship and even artistic expression. In Copyright's Paradox Neil Weinstock Netanel explores the tensions between copyright law and free speech revealing the unacceptable burdens on expression that copyright can impose. Tracing the conflict across both traditional and digital media Netanel examines the remix and copying culture at the heart of current controversies related to the Google Book Search litigation YouTube and MySpace hip-hop music and digital sampling. The author juxtaposes the dramatic expansion of copyright holders' proprietary control against the individual's newly found ability to digitally cut paste edit remix and distribute sound recordings movies TV programs graphics and texts the world over. He tests whether in light of these and other developments copyright still serves as a vital engine of free expression and assesses how copyright does--and does not--burden free speech. Taking First Amendment values as his lodestar Netanel offers a crucial timely call to redefine the limits of copyright so it can most effectively promote robust debate and expressive diversity--and he presents a definitive blueprint for how this can be accomplished.

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Providing a vital economic incentive for much of society's music art and literature copyright is widely considered "the engine of free expression"--but it is also used to stifle news reporting political commentary historical scholarship and even artistic expression. In Copyright's Paradox Neil Weinstock Netanel explores the tensions between copyright law and free speech revealing the unacceptable burdens on expression that copyright can impose. Tracing the conflict across both traditional and digital media Netanel examines the remix and copying culture at the heart of current controversies related to the Google Book Search litigation YouTube and MySpace hip-hop music and digital sampling. The author juxtaposes the dramatic expansion of copyright holders' proprietary control against the individual's newly found ability to digitally cut paste edit remix and distribute sound recordings movies TV programs graphics and texts the world over. He tests whether in light of these and other developments copyright still serves as a vital engine of free expression and assesses how copyright does--and does not--burden free speech. Taking First Amendment values as his lodestar Netanel offers a crucial timely call to redefine the limits of copyright so it can most effectively promote robust debate and expressive diversity--and he presents a definitive blueprint for how this can be accomplished.

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