[1][2] In his book Promises to Keep: Technology, Law and the Future of Entertainment (Stanford University Press 2004), Fisher proposes replacing much of copyright and digital rights management with a government-administered reward system.

Authors and artists would receive compensation from the government based on how often their works were read, watched, or listened to.

Fisher is one of the founders of Noank Media, a private enterprise similar in many ways to the proposal of Promises to Keep.

[4] Fisher was among the lawyers, along with his colleague John Palfrey and the law firm of Jones Day, who represented Shepard Fairey, pro bono, in his lawsuit against the Associated Press related to the iconic Hope poster.

In 1982, he was a law clerk to Judge Harry T. Edwards of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.