CRI 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Strict Liability, Oligopoly
2 Apr 2016
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Internet service providers were said to be strictly liable for copyright violaions. Many industries see the internet as a potenial threat to their role as intermediaries between arists and creators on the one hand and the public on the other. Reporters loved the topic of the communicaions decency act. The internet makes copying cheaper and does so on an unparalleled global scale. But without an increase in private property rights, cheaper copying will eat the heart out of our creaive and cultural industries. My point is that there is a teleology-a theory about how intellectual property law must develop historically-hidden inside the argument i call the internet threat. To deal with the internet, we need the digital millennium copyright act, We must create interlocking sotware and hardware systems that monitor and control the material played on those systems-so that songs can be licensed to paricular computers at paricular imes.
