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| 1. | “The Economy of Ideas,” Wired, Mar. 1994, at 84, 85. |
| 2. | See H.R. Rep. No. 1476, 94th Cong., 2d Sess. 47 at 52 (1976). |
| 3. | See Ben Depoorter, “Technology and Uncertainty: Shaping the Effect on Copyright Law,” 157 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1831–1868 (2008–2009). |
| 4. | Some audiophiles would disagree as to the loss of sound quality when music is compressed in MP3 format. However, to most casual listeners, the reduction in sound quality is minor and possibly unnoticeable. The m4a file format, developed by Apple, Inc., and used by the iPod, is considered a “lossless” format that loses no quality, according to m4a.com. |
| 5. | The word “generally” is used here because, in limited circumstances, uploading or downloading a copyrighted work without the copyright owner’s consent may not constitute copyright infringement if the defense of fair use is applicable. See Chapter 12 for a discussion of fair use. |
| 6. | See Final Report of the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (1978) at 40. |
| 7. | Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” album charted at No. 1 in the UK and sold 3 million copies when Radiohead allowed consumers to choose the album payment amount (see Daniel Kreps, “Radio Publishers Reveal ‘In Rainbows’ Numbers,” Rolling Stone, October 15, 2008), while Nine Inch Nails followed their lead and employed a similar promotion, earning $1.6 million in the first week of selling their Ghosts I–IV album on nin.com and an additional $1 million on Amazon.com. See Jennifer Netherby, “Two Kinds of Free,” Billboard, March 22, 2008, Vol. 5, p. 3. |
| 8. | 17 U.S.C. §109. |
| 9. | Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, Section 104 Report, August 2001, pp. 82–83. |
| 10. | Atlantic Recording Corp. v. Howell 554 F.Supp.2d 976, 983 (D.Ariz., 2008). |
| 11. | Capitol Records, Inc. v. Thomas 579 F.Supp.2d 1210, 1218–1219 (D.Minn., 2008). |
| 12. | Universal City Studios Inc. v. Reimerdes, 82 F. Supp. 2d 211 (S.D.N.Y. 2000). |
| 13. | Statement of James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress, July 26, 2010. http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2010/Librarian-of-Congress-1201-Statement.html. |
| 14. | See 75 Federal Register 43825, 143, 839–40, July 27, 2010, and “Apple Loses Big in DRM Ruling: Jailbreaks Are Fair Use,” Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, July 29, 2010. |
| 15. | A dongle is a device attached to a laptop or desktop computer that makes it possible to access secured software. The term can also apply to any hardware attached to a computer. [Wikipedia.org]. |
| 16. | 17 U.S.C. §1202. |
| 17. | See Religious Technology Center v. NetCom Online Communications Services, Inc., 907 F.Supp. 1361 (N.D. Cal. 1995); Marobie-FL, Inc. v. Nat. Assn. of Fire Equipment Distributors, 983 F. Supp. 1167 (N.D. Ill. 1997). |
| 18. | 17 U.S.C. § 512(k)(l)(B). |
| 19. | 665 F. Supp. 2d 1099 (C.D. Cal. 2009). |
| 20. | 718 F.Supp.2d 514 (S.D.N.Y. 2010). |
| 21. | 665 F.Supp.2d 1099, 1108 -1109 (C.D.Cal., 2009). |
| 22. | 718 F.Supp.2d 514, 525 (S.D.N.Y., 2010). |
| 23. | 2011 WL 3667335 (S.D.N.Y. 2011). |
| 24. | Id. at p. 15. |
| 25. | Id. at p. 10. |
| 26. | Id. at p. 12. |
| 27. | Cheryl L. Slay, “Meet the New Internet: Cause for Celebration or Concern in the Entertainment Industry?,” Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association eZine, September 12, 2010. |
| 28. | H.R. 3458, Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009. |
| 29. | Anne Broache, “RIAA: Don’t Let Net Neutrality Hurt Piracy Fight,” CNET News, cnet.com, May 6, 2008. |
| 30. | Excerpted from Center for Copyright Information and Copyright Alert System Fact Sheet. http://www.copyrightinformation.org/alerts. |
| 31. | The complete bill text is available at copyright.gov or at http://www.scribd.com/doc/55156515/ProtectIPActof2011. |
| 32. | http://riaa.com/. |
| 33. | http://nmpa.org/home/index.asp. |
| 34. | The authors’ term to indicate a state of balance and the supports needed to achieve it, such as the proliferation of perspectives that recognize the interests of copyright owners, technology innovators, and consumers and users of copyrighted content. We lay no claim to the term “ecosystem,” which we clearly did not coin but do find descriptive of the ideals described here when applied to copyright. |
| 35. | http://www.eff.org/about. |
| 36. | http://creativecommons.org/. |