http://www.free-culture.cc/freecontent/
The link is to a free, downloadable copy of Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, by Lawrence Lessig. This issue is so important that information about it should be widespread. The ultimate irony is, that by restricting culture to the degree big media do, they ultimately kill the creative goose which lays the golden eggs by which they profit.
The usual remedy to such a market failure is government action. One of the major functions of government is to make and enforce decisions in the general benefit against stakeholders with vested interests. Since to all intents and purposes in most 'democratic' countries in the world, the vested interests effectively own the government, there is little chance of that happening.
Spider Robinson wrote a SF short story on this issue: "Melancholy Elephants" which is right to the point -- alas, Robinson overestimated the sagacity and probity of today's politician, a shortcoming only forgiveable because it is so easy to do.
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