Internet & Society: The Technologies and Politics of Control (Spring 2019)

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SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA et al. v. UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS, INC., et al.

John Bowers

In this landmark case, SCOTUS laid the groundwork for decades of debate surrounding digital copyright. How has the kind of content we consume (and copy!) – and how we consume it – changed in the era of the internet? How much of the court’s logic would have to be tweaked if the case were decided in 2019?

Supreme Court of the United States

464 U.S. 417, 78 L. Ed. 2d 574, 104 S. Ct. 774, 1984 U.S. LEXIS 19, SCDB 1983-022

No. 81-1687

1984-01-17

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