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Copyright In An Era Of Information Overload: Toward The Privileging Of Categorizers, Frank Pasquale Jan 2007

Copyright In An Era Of Information Overload: Toward The Privileging Of Categorizers, Frank Pasquale

Vanderbilt Law Review

What to read? or watch? or listen to? These are hard questions, not because of any scarcity of expression, but rather because of its abundance. Over 100,000 books are published in the United States each year, thousands of movies and CDs are released, and the amount of textual, musical, and visual works on the internet continues to rise exponentially. Whose work can we trust? And who knows what of it will rank among the best that has been thought and said-or even provide a few moments levity?

Admittedly, a bulging bookshelf or surfeit of films prompts an existential crisis in …