Copyright protection grants creators monopolies – with their attendant harms – in order to provide incentives for continued creation. File sharing, which exploded with Napster’s appearance in 1999, effectively weakened copyright protection. Researchers have documented depressing effects of...

Over the last half century, as each new technology that facilitates private, noncommercial copying of copyrighted works has emerged, segments of the copyright-owning community have predicted destruction of their markets. Not only has this not happened, but in fact it has been quite difficult to...

From the introduction: Time in its unstoppable course seems to reserve its most heated compressions for our era's collisions between copyright law and technology. Our goal here however is to step outside the pressures of time in order to illuminate how technological interactivity is affecting...