Righting Copyright: Fair Use and 'Digital Environmentalism'

While it was once believed that Marxism would overhaul notions of ownership, the combination of capitalism and the Internet has transformed our ideas of property to an extent far beyond the dreams of even the most fervent revolutionary. Which is not to say that anything resembling a collectivist utopia has come to pass. Quite the opposite. In fact, the laws regulating property?and intellectual property, in particular?have never before been so complex, onerous, and rigid. —Righting Copyright: Fair Use and ‘Digital Environmentalism’ (Bookforum)