The multimedia Internet is here to stay. Rich media - including videos, music, podcasts, and flash animation - is already a key feature of the Internet experience, and will only grow in diversity and importance. As Internet users increasingly crave - and technology increasingly enables -...

The dominant utilitarian formulation of copyright incentives is preoccupied with reducing copyright’s social costs by limiting an author’s income to the precise amount necessary to incentivize production of a particular work. Under that approach, the grant of copyright is considered by many...