“Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment” by William Fisher, Stanford University Press (2004) (Chapter 6).

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Fisher argues for a government-run revenue allocation scheme intended to address the market failures afflicting internet media content. What do you think of the system? Is allowing a complicated government bureaucracy to administer the entire digital culture market at odds with the ethos of an open internet?

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