The Danger In Media Concentration Comes Not

Copyright Law Has Got To Give Up Its Obsession With 'the Copy.' The Law Should Not Regulate 'copies' Or 'modern Reproductions' On Their Own. It Should Instead Regulate Uses--like Public Distributions Of Copies Of Copyrighted Work--that Connect Directly To The Economic Incentive Copyright Law Was Intended To Foster.

Now That Copyrights Can Be Just About A Century Long, The Inability To Know What Is Protected And What Is Not Protected Becomes A Huge And Obvious Burden On The Creative Process.

All Of The Great Disney Works Took Works That Were In The Public Domain And Remixed Them.

A Free Culture Is Not A Culture Without Property; It Is Not A Culture In Which Artists Don't Get Paid.

Americans Have Been Selling This View Around The World: That Progress Comes From Perfect Protection Of Intellectual Property.