CRI 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter -: Green Paper, Deadweight Loss, Time Shifting
Document Summary
Blueprint for new intellectual property policy online came from the patent and trademark. Green paper went to white paper on intellectual property and the national. ^ documents contained proposals that would be seen as fairly controversial nowadays. Any limitations on them, such as fair use, are taxes on property owners, subsidies to the society at large. Property rules have a huge effect on power and relationships and bargaining positions. Being set up > a vision of economy and culture, a frame of mind about how the world of cultural exchange operates, and eventually a blueprint for our systems of communication. Internet was/is a potential threat to their role as intermediaries between artists and creators on the one and the public on the other. The law was treated as a kind of contract between the affected industries. Industries would use the law to protect legitimate existing property rights, but to also make challenges to their basic business plans illegal.