Promises to Keep
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William Fisher
William W. Fisher
William "Terry" W. Fisher III is the WilmerHale Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Harvard Law School and faculty director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society...
, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
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. Fisher was a Harvard University
Harvard University
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Hale and Dorr Professor of Intellectual Property Law and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society Director. Stanford University Press
Stanford University Press
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the book in August, 2004. Fisher expressed in a 24 October 2004 weblog entry (as cited in "References") the premise of the book as follows.
- In combination, three technological developments – digital recording and storage systems, compression/decompression systems, and the Internet – have created dramatically new ways of making, keeping, sharing, and enjoying audio and video recordings.