Word: copyright
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...sordid history of the American copyright code is, well, sordid. Once upon a time to acquire a copyright (lasting 14 years, with option to renew once) you had to file lots of paperwork with the government. Through two centuries of litigation and legislation this process has come to be substantially amended: now to acquire a copyright (lasting your whole life, plus about 70 years), you simply publish. To use any piece of published content—which is automatically protected by copyright law—you must obtain permission from the copyright holder...
...disagreement might seem to dampen their revolutionary spirit. But it’s exactly this uncertainty that makes the present such an exciting time to study electronic copyright law—the chaotic lack of infrastructure, just below an apparently sound surface, that makes a revolution succeed...
Zittrain compares recent developments in copyright law to a very different kind of uprising: the last years of the Soviet Union...
...recent years, fewer and fewer have been able to say that intellectual-property theory does not affect their lives. The battles over copyright law have been fought individual by individual, computer by computer, far beyond Harvard’s campus...
Still, he doesn’t see the shattered windows going back up over copyright...