The Copyright/Internet Paradox
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May 10, 2012 12:45pm - 2:00pm
May 10, 2012 12:45pm - 2:00pm
Room 280B
The release of Napster’s peer-to-peer software in 1999 triggered the digital copyright revolution. Within a matter of months, a large swath of the record industry’s prime demographic found the celestial jukebox of their dreams and exited the record marketplace. Although Napster’s service was shut down just a few years later, the emergence of other file sharing platforms and the roll-out of authorized digital distribution technologies have dramatically reshaped the content and technology industries over the past decade. In this talk, Professor Menell will re-visit prognostications from the outset of that turbulent period, examine the lessons learned from the past decade, and explore the challenges for adapting the copyright system to the Internet age.