title: Copyright's Paradox
author: Neil Weinstock Netanel
description: Why must a documentary filmmaker pay a $10,000 licensing fee for an image of Homer Simpson that appears briefly in the background? Netanel poses this real-life question as part of his compelling argument that an American copyright law originally intended to foster creativity now stifles it. Though he acknowledges that writers and artists need legal protection from piracy, Netanel shows that such protection has grown so broad that it threatens the free speech enshrined in the First Amendment. Particularly troubling are the new proprietary rights that hamstring those trying to use new technologies to recast works into parody, to fuse them into startling new combinations, or to inject into them the leavening of hostile critique. Specific cases make it troublingly clear that even traditional fair use exemptions to copyright law are disappearing as courts endorse the copyright holders broadest claims and so squelch free speech. To restore cherished freedoms, Netanel urges Americans to enact a specific set of copyright reforms, outlined in his conclusion. A balanced and cogent argument. --Bryce Christensen
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  Assemblers of Infinity
  by Kevin J. Anderson
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  Copyright (c)1993 by Kevin J. Anderson
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           *PART I*
           *GRISSOM MEMORIAL PROPOSED*
         A space activist group, "The Future Today," has presented the Newsnet
  Access Service with seven different concepts for a memorial to be erected in
  honor of the Grissom station, which was destroyed on 17 October 2007. All
  seven of the designs in some way incorporate either the names or the
  likenesses of the two astronauts killed in the disaster that shocked the
  nation.
         Ramona 