copyright activisism

"The State of Copyright Activism"
Siva Vaidhyanathan

One of the great hopes I had while I researched and wrote Copyrights and
Copywrongs (New York: New York University Press, 2001), a cultural
history of American copyright, during the late 1990s was that copyright
debates might puncture the bubble of public consciousness and become
important global policy questions. My wish has come true.

Since 1998 questions about whether the United States has constructed an
equitable or effective copyright system frequently appear on the pages
of
daily newspapers. Activist movements for both stronger and looser
copyright systems have grown in volume and furor. And the U.S. Supreme
Court ruled in early 2003 that the foundations of American copyright, as
expressed in the Constitution, are barely relevant in an age in which
both media companies and clever consumers enjoy unprecedented power over
the use of works.

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