ABSTRACT
In a speech delivered in October 2001 to the National Summit on Broadband Deployment in Washington, D.C., the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) Chairman Michael K. Powell stated:
Much of what is holding broadband content back is caused by copyright holders trying to protect their goods in a digitized environment (in other words, a perfect reproduction world). Stimulating content creation might involve a re-examination of the copyright laws. Arguably, VCRs would not be widely available today if Universal Studios had won its infringement case against Sony in 1984. 1
