Promises to Keep

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Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment is a book William Fisher, Ph.D. wrote. Fisher was a Harvard University Hale and Dorr Professor of Intellectual Property Law and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society Director. Stanford University Press published the book in August, 2004. Fisher expressed in a 24 October 2004 weblog entry (as cited in "References") the premise of the book as follows.

In combination, three technological developments – digital recording and storage systems, compression/decompression systems, and the Internet – have created dramatically new ways of making, keeping, sharing, and enjoying audio and video recordings.

[edit] References

• "Entertainment Industry Crisis", a weblog entry