Now, here's the thing you've got to remember. You've got to see this. This is the point. (And Jack Valenti misses this.) Here's the point: Never has it been more controlled ever. Take the addition, the changes, the copyrights turn, take the changes to copyrights scope, put it against the background of an extraordinarily concentrated structure of media, and you produce the fact that never in our history have fewer people controlled more of the evolution of our culture. Never.

Here's a simple copyright lesson: Law regulates copies. What's that mean? Well, before the Internet, think of this as a world of all possible uses of a copyrig…

Here's a story: There was a documentary filmmaker who was making a documentary film about education in America. And he's shooting across this classroom with lo…

Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before.

It's only a movie, and, after all, we're all grossly overpaid....

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

'The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.'