. In theory, piracy could crowd out legitimate sales by building file sharing capacity, but could also increase sales …

copyright control violates the Free Press Clause's core protection of the right to speech technologies for self-expression …

This essay asks: How did we get into the current crisis of copyright law, and how to move beyond it? This crisis … has become acute as media progress has brought cultural creations online: we now increasingly face ever-harder copyright … that it finds common to the laws of copyright and of authors' rights. At the start, to assure that such rights operate …

Copyright law is largely a response to new media: from the printing press through radio, photocopiers, and digital … computers, changes in copyright reflect the increased public availability of information reproduction technologies. But while … the exclusive rights conferred by copyright are shaped by the technologies they respond to, the opposite is also true …

' attitudes towards piracy are interdependent and evolve with the relative attractiveness of copies …