Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment

Out of stock at the UK distributor

You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched

Other available formats

Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment

About
Reviews
Explore

About

During the past fifteen years, changes in technology have generated an extraordinary array of new ways in which music and movies can be produced and distributed. Both the creators and the consumers of entertainment products stand to benefit enormously from the new systems. Sadly, we have failed thus far to avail ourselves of these opportunities. Instead, much energy has been devoted to interpreting or changing legal rules in hopes of defending older business models against the threats posed by the new technologies. These efforts to plug the multiplying holes in the legal dikes are failing and the entertainment industry has fallen into crisis. This provocative book chronicles how we got into this mess and presents three alternative proposals—each involving a combination of legal reforms and new business models—for how we could get out of it.

Reviews

Fisher's proposal might be the best thing that ever happened to the cultural commons: the creators would be paid, while every individual would have unlimited access to every cultural creation

Book

Other available formats

Contents

Download queue