One major issue in copyright law is, therefore, what should be protected, based on our idea of what is proper. This is separate from the question of what the law actually protects. While we usually do not deal with normative questions of this sort, it is important to understand that copyright law is very much in flux today. With the increasingly international nature of communication and the ever-changing technological landscape, copyright law cannot always keep current. Therefore, convincing a court that some new form of transmission constitutes a “writing,” or that some new form of expression should fall under the definition of a protected “work,” becomes a matter of arguing that this should be the case. After all, it is quite difficult to claim that the law as it stands intended to protect a form of expression which did not even exist at the time the law was passed!