The efforts to enforce these new rights have resulted in highly publicized legal battles between established media, including major record labels and motion picture studios, and upstart Internet companies such as MP3.com and Napster.
But copyright law is central to our society's information policy, and affects what we can read, view, hear, use, or learn.
Joseph Fogel, reviewing the book, wrote: Litman's chapter on twentieth-century copyright law is wonderful.
Congress, she recounts, relied upon private 'experts' to write copyright bills because the issues seemed to be the province of a very narrow slice of citizenry and thus not worthy of much of an elected official's time.
[5]Chapter 11 continues this analysis, with some reflections on the relative value of litigation versus legislation as strategies for the content industries.
"[6] In the 2006 edition, Litman included an updated foreword, which discussed in greater detail the peer-to-peer litigations that arose after the DMCA's enactment.