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he new information technology doesn’t just create generation-3.0 special interests; it arms them with precision-guided munitions. The division of readers and viewers into demographically and ideologically discrete micro-audiences makes it easy for interest groups to get scare stories (e.g. “death panels”) to the people most likely to be terrified by them.

It’s no exaggeration to say that technology has subverted the original idea of America.

Mr. Goldstein said cases like the one involving Marvel are only the tip of an iceberg. A new wave of copyright termination actions is expected to affect the film, music and book industries as more works reach the 56-year threshold for ending older copyrights, or a shorter period for those created under a law that took effect in 1978.

ast week Henry Holt & Company stopped printing and selling “The Last Train From Hiroshima,”

because its author had relied on a fraudulent source for a portion of the book and possibly fabricated others.

digital media raises the question of what part the traditional book publisher will play in the future