The law of innovation balances private returns on investment against benefits to the public. Increasing intellectual property’s profitability acts as an inducement to spend money on research and testing, but threatens to increase costs to the public both directly and in terms of reduced...

This chapter in a forthcoming book attempts to map global patterns by which local tyrannies become sources of potentially global infringements on freedom of expression, particularly but not exclusively on the YouTube Web site. It illustrates certain parallels between the efforts to force...