How to Fix Copyright

No copyright law can preserve markets that have been passed by. (Location 86)

Because the copyright industries—which are after all in the storytelling business—have constructed a very powerful story (Location 228)

about copyright, a story policymakers want to believe.11 (Location 228)

copyright law has been the legal device used by a few gatekeepers to control a winner-take-all marketplace of artificial scarcity, in which far fewer works are made available to the public than are created. (Location 275)

Major record companies at one time had full-time producers who influenced the sound and sometimes the content of the music recorded, but those days are long gone. (Location 342)

One need not have an excessively restrictive definition of what constitutes a creative work to agree that popular success is not necessarily synonymous with creative or enduring success. (Location 418)

It is this fact that is consistently overlooked by those who claim that the stronger copyright protection is, the more benefits the actual creators will receive. (Location 476)

All but the most famous authors are at a strategic disadvantage. (Location 479)

Dr. Francis Gurry, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization, has rightly argued that successful copyright policy has to be based on (Location 621)

neutrality to technology and to business models, and should not “preserve business models established under obsolete or moribund technologies.”69 (Location 622)

It makes no sense in a world of digital abundance to complain about the loss of revenue resulting from monopoly power made possible only by analog means of production and distribution. (Location 624)

Such evidence would be laughed out of any courtroom. They should be laughed out of the halls of government too. (Location 818)