Digital Archiving Resources

Copyright's Paradox

Title

Copyright's Paradox

Subject

Copyright

Description

At its inception, U.S. copyright law was intended to be a limited federal grant for the public good that promoted creative expression while balancing the First Amendment’s freedom of speech. Changes in the copyright law since 1976, compounded by the threats from digital technologies to media conglomerates and publishers, has shifted the emphasis on encouraging a diversity of expression to conflating copyright with property rights. In his book, Copyright's Paradox, Netanel reviews recent cases of copyright infringement against the First Amendment and contrasts increased readership and economic gains by electronic publishers against claims of hardship. He proposes a “recalibration” of copyright to reflect digital technology’s “empowerment” of individual creative appropriation of electronic media and that would balance the citizen’s right to access and expression against the protection of the author/creator’s financial reward. As copyright law currently exists, digital archives are increasingly restricted from ingesting and providing access to its collections.

Creator

Netanel, Neil Weinstock

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Date

2008-03-29

Contributor

Polk, Victoria

Rights

Oxford University Press 2015

Type

eBook

Identifier

ISBN: 9780195137620

Bibliographic Citation

Netanel, Neil Weinstock. Copyright's Paradox. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Files

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Citation

Netanel, Neil Weinstock , “Copyright's Paradox,” Digital Archiving Resources, accessed March 28, 2024, https://dar.cah.ucf.edu/items/show/101.