Peter Menell Says Liability Fears Have Not Chilled Innovation

The Media Institute, July 24, 2009 by Peter S. Menell
http://www.mediainstitute.org/new_site/IPI/072409_ChilledInnovations.php

Digital innovation and commercialization that could potentially contribute to copyright infringement has been far from retreat.  Each month brings new digital technologies—iPod, image search engines, MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Google’s Book Search, BitTorrent, iPhone, Twitter, Kindle 2.0—many of which could be (and have been) portrayed as facilitating copyright infringement.  The development and commercialization of these technologies suggest that the cloud of liability has not throttled the digital innovation pipeline.