ABSTRACT
Another challenge to the filmed entertainment copyright system emerged with the sale of videocassette recorders to the home consumer in late 1975. For the first time, this new technology made it possible for consumers to buy or rent copies of movies, to tape and build home libraries of television programs and movies, and to watch them at times of convenience. Marxist and critical legal studies can be divided into the same three general fields that have been laid out for political economy and capitalist state theory. An instrumental approach to the role of law in capitalist society begins, at the very basic level, by identifying the class background and social status of judges, their interlocks with power-structure institutions, and their general ideological orientation. The Xerox Corporation introduced copiers for general office use in 1960, a technology that dramatically improved the copying of documents in comparison to carbon paper and mimeograph machines.
