License to read: What are you buying when you buy online?

 
BY GEORGE LANG | Modified: January 26, 2013 at 11:53 pm | Published: January 28, 2013   

Consumers of digital media will witness an important milestone in April when Apple’s iTunes Store figuratively blows out the computer-generated candles on its virtual 10th birthday cake. Starting in 2003, just a few years after digital music’s origin as pirate’s booty on the high seas of illegal file sharing, consumers could open an account, search for songs, point a cursor at the “buy” button on their computer screens and download a brand new track, all in just a few seconds.

photo - Sarah Burstein, professor of copyright law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Photo by Doug Hoke, The Oklahoman
Sarah Burstein, professor of copyright law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Photo by Doug Hoke, The Oklahoman

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These days, digital retailers such as Amazon and Apple offer books, movies, television shows and music for instant downloading, and with the advent of smartphones, e-readers and tablets, people...
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