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Abstract
The market for video entertainment is growing and becoming more diverse as technology reduces barriers to entry for small, independent moviemakers and distributors and increases consumers' ability to access the media of their choice. The growing complexity of the market, however, increases transaction costs for new entrants who must obtain licenses to copyrighted music, characters, storylines, or scenes that they incorporate into their movies. The entertainment bonanza offered by new technologies may not be realized in practice because of market failure. The purposes of the Copyright and Patents Clause are frustrated because creators of new works wishing to use new technologies to build on prior creative effort confront a legal regime intertwined with older technologies and industry structures.
Recommended Citation
Henry H. Perritt Jr.,
Cut in Tiny Pieces: Ensuring That Fragmented Ownership Does Not Chill Creativity,
14 Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law
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(2020)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/jetlaw/vol14/iss1/1