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"HOW BIG MEDIA USES TECHNOLOGY AND THE LAW TO LOCK DOWN CULTURE AND CONTROL "
"CREATIVITY"
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"license, click the icon above, or visit <ulink "
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"LAWRENCE LESSIG (<ulink "
"url=\"http://www.lessig.org\">http://www.lessig.org</ulink>), professor of "
"law and a John A. Wilson Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law "
"School, is founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and is "
"chairman of the Creative Commons (<ulink "
"url=\"http://creativecommons.org\">http://creativecommons.org</ulink>).  The "
"author of The Future of Ideas (Random House, 2001) and Code: And Other Laws "
"of Cyberspace (Basic Books, 1999), Lessig is a member of the boards of the "
"Public Library of Science, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Public "
"Knowledge. He was the winner of the Free Software Foundation's Award for the "
"Advancement of Free Software, twice listed in BusinessWeek's <quote>e.biz "
"25,</quote> and named one of Scientific American's <quote>50 "
"visionaries.</quote> A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Cambridge "
"University, and Yale Law School, Lessig clerked for Judge Richard Posner of "
"the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals."
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"Excerpt from an editorial titled <quote>The Coming of Copyright "
"Perpetuity,</quote> <citetitle>The New York Times</citetitle>, January 16, "
"2003. Copyright &copy; 2003 by The New York Times Co.  Reprinted with "
"permission."
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"Commissioner, Michael J. Copps."
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"Lessig, Lawrence.  Free culture : how big media uses technology and the law "
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"Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this "
"publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval "
"system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, "
"photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission "
"of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book."
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"via any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal and "
"punishable by law.  Please purchase only authorized electronic editions and "
"do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted "
"materials. Your support of the author's rights is appreciated."
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"To Eric Eldred&mdash;whose work first drew me to this cause, and for whom it "
"continues still."
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"<emphasis role=\"bold\">At the end</emphasis> of his review of my first "
"book, <citetitle>Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace</citetitle>, David "
"Pogue, a brilliant writer and author of countless technical and "
"computer-related texts, wrote this:"
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"David Pogue, <quote>Don't Just Chat, Do Something,</quote> <citetitle>New "
"York Times</citetitle>, 30 January 2000."
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"Unlike actual law, Internet software has no capacity to punish. It doesn't "
"affect people who aren't online (and only a tiny minority of the world "
"population is). And if you don't like the Internet's system, you can always "
"flip off the modem.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
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"Pogue was skeptical of the core argument of the book&mdash;that software, or "
"<quote>code,</quote> functioned as a kind of law&mdash;and his review "
"suggested the happy thought that if life in cyberspace got bad, we could "
"always <quote>drizzle, drazzle, druzzle, drome</quote>-like simply flip a "
"switch and be back home. Turn off the modem, unplug the computer, and any "
"troubles that exist in <emphasis>that</emphasis> space wouldn't "
"<quote>affect</quote> us anymore."
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"Pogue might have been right in 1999&mdash;I'm skeptical, but maybe.  But "
"even if he was right then, the point is not right now: <citetitle>Free "
"Culture</citetitle> is about the troubles the Internet causes even after the "
"modem is turned off. It is an argument about how the battles that now rage "
"regarding life on-line have fundamentally affected <quote>people who aren't "
"online.</quote> There is no switch that will insulate us from the Internet's "
"effect."
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"But unlike <citetitle>Code</citetitle>, the argument here is not much about "
"the Internet itself. It is instead about the consequence of the Internet to "
"a part of our tradition that is much more fundamental, and, as hard as this "
"is for a geek-wanna-be to admit, much more important."
msgstr ""

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"Richard M. Stallman, <citetitle>Free Software, Free Societies</citetitle> 57 "
"(Joshua Gay, ed. 2002)."
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"That tradition is the way our culture gets made. As I explain in the pages "
"that follow, we come from a tradition of <quote>free "
"culture</quote>&mdash;not <quote>free</quote> as in <quote>free beer</quote> "
"(to borrow a phrase from the founder of the free software "
"movement<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>), but <quote>free</quote> "
"as in <quote>free speech,</quote> <quote>free markets,</quote> <quote>free "
"trade,</quote> <quote>free enterprise,</quote> <quote>free will,</quote> and "
"<quote>free elections.</quote> A free culture supports and protects creators "
"and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property "
"rights. But it does so indirectly by limiting the reach of those rights, to "
"guarantee that follow-on creators and innovators remain <emphasis>as free as "
"possible</emphasis> from the control of the past. A free culture is not a "
"culture without property, just as a free market is not a market in which "
"everything is free. The opposite of a free culture is a <quote>permission "
"culture</quote>&mdash;a culture in which creators get to create only with "
"the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past."
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"If we understood this change, I believe we would resist it. Not "
"<quote>we</quote> on the Left or <quote>you</quote> on the Right, but we who "
"have no stake in the particular industries of culture that defined the "
"twentieth century.  Whether you are on the Left or the Right, if you are in "
"this sense disinterested, then the story I tell here will trouble you. For "
"the changes I describe affect values that both sides of our political "
"culture deem fundamental."
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msgid "CodePink Women in Peace"
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"We saw a glimpse of this bipartisan outrage in the early summer of 2003. As "
"the FCC considered changes in media ownership rules that would relax limits "
"on media concentration, an extraordinary coalition generated more than "
"700,000 letters to the FCC opposing the change.  As William Safire described "
"marching <quote>uncomfortably alongside CodePink Women for Peace and the "
"National Rifle Association, between liberal Olympia Snowe and conservative "
"Ted Stevens,</quote> he formulated perhaps most simply just what was at "
"stake: the concentration of power. And as he asked, <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
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"William Safire, <quote>The Great Media Gulp,</quote> <citetitle>New York "
"Times</citetitle>, 22 May 2003.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
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"Does that sound unconservative? Not to me. The concentration of "
"power&mdash;political, corporate, media, cultural&mdash;should be anathema "
"to conservatives. The diffusion of power through local control, thereby "
"encouraging individual participation, is the essence of federalism and the "
"greatest expression of democracy.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

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"This idea is an element of the argument of <citetitle>Free "
"Culture</citetitle>, though my focus is not just on the concentration of "
"power produced by concentrations in ownership, but more importantly, if "
"because less visibly, on the concentration of power produced by a radical "
"change in the effective scope of the law. The law is changing; that change "
"is altering the way our culture gets made; that change should worry "
"you&mdash;whether or not you care about the Internet, and whether you're on "
"Safire's left or on his right.  The inspiration for the title and for much "
"of the argument of this book comes from the work of Richard Stallman and the "
"Free Software Foundation. Indeed, as I reread Stallman's own work, "
"especially the essays in <citetitle>Free Software, Free Society</citetitle>, "
"I realize that all of the theoretical insights I develop here are insights "
"Stallman described decades ago. One could thus well argue that this work is "
"<quote>merely</quote> derivative."
msgstr ""

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"I accept that criticism, if indeed it is a criticism. The work of a lawyer "
"is always derivative, and I mean to do nothing more in this book than to "
"remind a culture about a tradition that has always been its own.  Like "
"Stallman, I defend that tradition on the basis of values. Like Stallman, I "
"believe those are the values of freedom. And like Stallman, I believe those "
"are values of our past that will need to be defended in our future. A free "
"culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the "
"path we are on right now.  Like Stallman's arguments for free software, an "
"argument for free culture stumbles on a confusion that is hard to avoid, and "
"even harder to understand. A free culture is not a culture without property; "
"it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid. A culture without "
"property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not "
"freedom. Anarchy is not what I advance here."
msgstr ""

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"Instead, the free culture that I defend in this book is a balance between "
"anarchy and control. A free culture, like a free market, is filled with "
"property. It is filled with rules of property and contract that get enforced "
"by the state. But just as a free market is perverted if its property becomes "
"feudal, so too can a free culture be queered by extremism in the property "
"rights that define it. That is what I fear about our culture today. It is "
"against that extremism that this book is written."
msgstr ""

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msgid "INTRODUCTION"
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"On December 17, 1903, on a windy North Carolina beach for just shy of one "
"hundred seconds, the Wright brothers demonstrated that a heavier-than-air, "
"self-propelled vehicle could fly. The moment was electric and its importance "
"widely understood. Almost immediately, there was an explosion of interest in "
"this newfound technology of manned flight, and a gaggle of innovators began "
"to build upon it."
msgstr ""

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"St. George Tucker, <citetitle>Blackstone's Commentaries</citetitle> 3 (South "
"Hackensack, N.J.: Rothman Reprints, 1969), 18."
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"At the time the Wright brothers invented the airplane, American law held "
"that a property owner presumptively owned not just the surface of his land, "
"but all the land below, down to the center of the earth, and all the space "
"above, to <quote>an indefinite extent, upwards.</quote><placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> For many years, scholars had puzzled about how "
"best to interpret the idea that rights in land ran to the heavens. Did that "
"mean that you owned the stars? Could you prosecute geese for their willful "
"and regular trespass?"
msgstr ""

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"Then came airplanes, and for the first time, this principle of American "
"law&mdash;deep within the foundations of our tradition, and acknowledged by "
"the most important legal thinkers of our past&mdash;mattered. If my land "
"reaches to the heavens, what happens when United flies over my field? Do I "
"have the right to banish it from my property? Am I allowed to enter into an "
"exclusive license with Delta Airlines? Could we set up an auction to decide "
"how much these rights are worth?"
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msgid "Causby, Thomas Lee"
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msgid "Causby, Tinie"
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"In 1945, these questions became a federal case. When North Carolina farmers "
"Thomas Lee and Tinie Causby started losing chickens because of low-flying "
"military aircraft (the terrified chickens apparently flew into the barn "
"walls and died), the Causbys filed a lawsuit saying that the government was "
"trespassing on their land. The airplanes, of course, never touched the "
"surface of the Causbys' land. But if, as Blackstone, Kent, and Coke had "
"said, their land reached to <quote>an indefinite extent, upwards,</quote> "
"then the government was trespassing on their property, and the Causbys "
"wanted it to stop."
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msgid ""
"The Supreme Court agreed to hear the Causbys' case. Congress had declared "
"the airways public, but if one's property really extended to the heavens, "
"then Congress's declaration could well have been an unconstitutional "
"<quote>taking</quote> of property without compensation. The Court "
"acknowledged that <quote>it is ancient doctrine that common law ownership of "
"the land extended to the periphery of the universe.</quote> But Justice "
"Douglas had no patience for ancient doctrine. In a single paragraph, "
"hundreds of years of property law were erased. As he wrote for the Court,"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:576
msgid ""
"United States v. Causby, U.S. 328 (1946): 256, 261. The Court did find that "
"there could be a <quote>taking</quote> if the government's use of its land "
"effectively destroyed the value of the Causbys' land. This example was "
"suggested to me by Keith Aoki's wonderful piece, <quote>(Intellectual)  "
"Property and Sovereignty: Notes Toward a Cultural Geography of "
"Authorship,</quote> <citetitle>Stanford Law Review</citetitle> 48 (1996): "
"1293, 1333. See also Paul Goldstein, <citetitle>Real Property</citetitle> "
"(Mineola, N.Y.: Foundation Press, 1984), 1112&ndash;13.  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:567
msgid ""
"[The] doctrine has no place in the modern world. The air is a public "
"highway, as Congress has declared. Were that not true, every "
"transcontinental flight would subject the operator to countless trespass "
"suits. Common sense revolts at the idea. To recognize such private claims to "
"the airspace would clog these highways, seriously interfere with their "
"control and development in the public interest, and transfer into private "
"ownership that to which only the public has a just claim.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:590
msgid "<quote>Common sense revolts at the idea.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. PAGE BREAK 18
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:593
msgid ""
"This is how the law usually works. Not often this abruptly or impatiently, "
"but eventually, this is how it works. It was Douglas's style not to "
"dither. Other justices would have blathered on for pages to reach the "
"conclusion that Douglas holds in a single line: <quote>Common sense revolts "
"at the idea.</quote> But whether it takes pages or a few words, it is the "
"special genius of a common law system, as ours is, that the law adjusts to "
"the technologies of the time. And as it adjusts, it changes. Ideas that were "
"as solid as rock in one age crumble in another."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:607
msgid ""
"Or at least, this is how things happen when there's no one powerful on the "
"other side of the change. The Causbys were just farmers. And though there "
"were no doubt many like them who were upset by the growing traffic in the "
"air (though one hopes not many chickens flew themselves into walls), the "
"Causbys of the world would find it very hard to unite and stop the idea, and "
"the technology, that the Wright brothers had birthed. The Wright brothers "
"spat airplanes into the technological meme pool; the idea then spread like a "
"virus in a chicken coop; farmers like the Causbys found themselves "
"surrounded by <quote>what seemed reasonable</quote> given the technology "
"that the Wrights had produced.  They could stand on their farms, dead "
"chickens in hand, and shake their fists at these newfangled technologies all "
"they wanted.  They could call their representatives or even file a "
"lawsuit. But in the end, the force of what seems <quote>obvious</quote> to "
"everyone else&mdash;the power of <quote>common sense</quote>&mdash;would "
"prevail. Their <quote>private interest</quote> would not be allowed to "
"defeat an obvious public gain."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:628 freeculture.xml:9009 freeculture.xml:9657
msgid "Armstrong, Edwin Howard"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:642
msgid "Bell, Alexander Graham"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:643
msgid "Edison, Thomas"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:644
msgid "Faraday, Michael"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:631
msgid ""
"<emphasis role='strong'>Edwin Howard Armstrong</emphasis> is one of "
"America's forgotten inventor geniuses. He came to the great American "
"inventor scene just after the titans Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham "
"Bell. But his work in the area of radio technology was perhaps the most "
"important of any single inventor in the first fifty years of radio. He was "
"better educated than Michael Faraday, who as a bookbinder's apprentice had "
"discovered electric induction in 1831. But he had the same intuition about "
"how the world of radio worked, and on at least three occasions, Armstrong "
"invented profoundly important technologies that advanced our understanding "
"of radio.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"2\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:647
msgid ""
"On the day after Christmas, 1933, four patents were issued to Armstrong for "
"his most significant invention&mdash;FM radio. Until then, consumer radio "
"had been amplitude-modulated (AM) radio. The theorists of the day had said "
"that frequency-modulated (FM) radio could never work. They were right about "
"FM radio in a narrow band of spectrum.  But Armstrong discovered that "
"frequency-modulated radio in a wide band of spectrum would deliver an "
"astonishing fidelity of sound, with much less transmitter power and static."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:657
msgid ""
"On November 5, 1935, he demonstrated the technology at a meeting of the "
"Institute of Radio Engineers at the Empire State Building in New York "
"City. He tuned his radio dial across a range of AM stations, until the radio "
"locked on a broadcast that he had arranged from seventeen miles away. The "
"radio fell totally silent, as if dead, and then with a clarity no one else "
"in that room had ever heard from an electrical device, it produced the sound "
"of an announcer's voice: <quote>This is amateur station W2AG at Yonkers, New "
"York, operating on frequency modulation at two and a half meters.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:668
msgid "The audience was hearing something no one had thought possible:"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:679
msgid ""
"Lawrence Lessing, <citetitle>Man of High Fidelity: Edwin Howard "
"Armstrong</citetitle> (Philadelphia: J. B. Lipincott Company, 1956), 209."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:672
msgid ""
"A glass of water was poured before the microphone in Yonkers; it sounded "
"like a glass of water being poured. &hellip; A paper was crumpled and torn; "
"it sounded like paper and not like a crackling forest fire. &hellip; Sousa "
"marches were played from records and a piano solo and guitar number were "
"performed. &hellip; The music was projected with a live-ness rarely if ever "
"heard before from a radio <quote>music box.</quote><placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. PAGE BREAK 20
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:685
msgid ""
"As our own common sense tells us, Armstrong had discovered a vastly superior "
"radio technology. But at the time of his invention, Armstrong was working "
"for RCA. RCA was the dominant player in the then dominant AM radio "
"market. By 1935, there were a thousand radio stations across the United "
"States, but the stations in large cities were all owned by a handful of "
"networks."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:699 freeculture.xml:719
msgid "Sarnoff, David"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:694
msgid ""
"RCA's president, David Sarnoff, a friend of Armstrong's, was eager that "
"Armstrong discover a way to remove static from AM radio. So Sarnoff was "
"quite excited when Armstrong told him he had a device that removed static "
"from <quote>radio.</quote> But when Armstrong demonstrated his invention, "
"Sarnoff was not pleased.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:706
msgid ""
"See <quote>Saints: The Heroes and Geniuses of the Electronic Era,</quote> "
"First Electronic Church of America, at www.webstationone.com/fecha, "
"available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #1</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:703
msgid ""
"I thought Armstrong would invent some kind of a filter to remove static from "
"our AM radio. I didn't think he'd start a revolution&mdash; start up a whole "
"damn new industry to compete with RCA.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:715
msgid ""
"Armstrong's invention threatened RCA's AM empire, so the company launched a "
"campaign to smother FM radio. While FM may have been a superior technology, "
"Sarnoff was a superior tactician.  As one author described, <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:728
msgid "Lessing, 226."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:723
msgid ""
"The forces for FM, largely engineering, could not overcome the weight of "
"strategy devised by the sales, patent, and legal offices to subdue this "
"threat to corporate position. For FM, if allowed to develop unrestrained, "
"posed &hellip; a complete reordering of radio power &hellip; and the "
"eventual overthrow of the carefully restricted AM system on which RCA had "
"grown to power.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:733
msgid ""
"RCA at first kept the technology in house, insisting that further tests were "
"needed. When, after two years of testing, Armstrong grew impatient, RCA "
"began to use its power with the government to stall FM radio's deployment "
"generally. In 1936, RCA hired the former head of the FCC and assigned him "
"the task of assuring that the FCC assign spectrum in a way that would "
"castrate FM&mdash;principally by moving FM radio to a different band of "
"spectrum. At first, these efforts failed. But when Armstrong and the nation "
"were distracted by World War II, RCA's work began to be more "
"successful. Soon after the war ended, the FCC announced a set of policies "
"that would have one clear effect: FM radio would be crippled. As Lawrence "
"Lessing described it,"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:752
msgid "Lessing, 256."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:748
msgid ""
"The series of body blows that FM radio received right after the war, in a "
"series of rulings manipulated through the FCC by the big radio interests, "
"were almost incredible in their force and deviousness.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:756
msgid "AT&amp;T"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:758
msgid ""
"To make room in the spectrum for RCA's latest gamble, television, FM radio "
"users were to be moved to a totally new spectrum band. The power of FM radio "
"stations was also cut, meaning FM could no longer be used to beam programs "
"from one part of the country to another.  (This change was strongly "
"supported by AT&amp;T, because the loss of FM relaying stations would mean "
"radio stations would have to buy wired links from AT&amp;T.) The spread of "
"FM radio was thus choked, at least temporarily."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:768
msgid ""
"Armstrong resisted RCA's efforts. In response, RCA resisted Armstrong's "
"patents. After incorporating FM technology into the emerging standard for "
"television, RCA declared the patents invalid&mdash;baselessly, and almost "
"fifteen years after they were issued. It thus refused to pay him "
"royalties. For six years, Armstrong fought an expensive war of litigation to "
"defend the patents. Finally, just as the patents expired, RCA offered a "
"settlement so low that it would not even cover Armstrong's lawyers' "
"fees. Defeated, broken, and now broke, in 1954 Armstrong wrote a short note "
"to his wife and then stepped out of a thirteenth-story window to his death."
msgstr ""

#. PAGE BREAK 22
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:781
msgid ""
"This is how the law sometimes works. Not often this tragically, and rarely "
"with heroic drama, but sometimes, this is how it works. From the beginning, "
"government and government agencies have been subject to capture. They are "
"more likely captured when a powerful interest is threatened by either a "
"legal or technical change. That powerful interest too often exerts its "
"influence within the government to get the government to protect it. The "
"rhetoric of this protection is of course always public spirited; the reality "
"is something different. Ideas that were as solid as rock in one age, but "
"that, left to themselves, would crumble in another, are sustained through "
"this subtle corruption of our political process. RCA had what the Causbys "
"did not: the power to stifle the effect of technological change."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:803
msgid ""
"Amanda Lenhart, <quote>The Ever-Shifting Internet Population: A New Look at "
"Internet Access and the Digital Divide,</quote> Pew Internet and American "
"Life Project, 15 April 2003: 6, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #2</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:797
msgid ""
"There's no single inventor of the Internet. Nor is there any good date upon "
"which to mark its birth. Yet in a very short time, the Internet has become "
"part of ordinary American life. According to the Pew Internet and American "
"Life Project, 58 percent of Americans had access to the Internet in 2002, up "
"from 49 percent two years before.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
"That number could well exceed two thirds of the nation by the end of 2004."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:812
msgid ""
"As the Internet has been integrated into ordinary life, it has changed "
"things. Some of these changes are technical&mdash;the Internet has made "
"communication faster, it has lowered the cost of gathering data, and so "
"on. These technical changes are not the focus of this book. They are "
"important. They are not well understood. But they are the sort of thing that "
"would simply go away if we all just switched the Internet off.  They don't "
"affect people who don't use the Internet, or at least they don't affect them "
"directly. They are the proper subject of a book about the Internet. But this "
"is not a book about the Internet."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:823
msgid ""
"Instead, this book is about an effect of the Internet beyond the Internet "
"itself: an effect upon how culture is made. My claim is that the Internet "
"has induced an important and unrecognized change in that process. That "
"change will radically transform a tradition that is as old as the Republic "
"itself. Most, if they recognized this change, would reject it. Yet most "
"don't even see the change that the Internet has introduced."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:842
msgid "Barlow, Joel"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:843
msgid "Webster, Noah"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:832
msgid ""
"We can glimpse a sense of this change by distinguishing between commercial "
"and noncommercial culture, and by mapping the law's regulation of each. By "
"<quote>commercial culture</quote> I mean that part of our culture that is "
"produced and sold or produced to be sold. By <quote>noncommercial "
"culture</quote> I mean all the rest. When old men sat around parks or on "
"street corners telling stories that kids and others consumed, that was "
"noncommercial culture. When Noah Webster published his "
"<quote>Reader,</quote> or Joel Barlow his poetry, that was commercial "
"culture.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:846
msgid ""
"At the beginning of our history, and for just about the whole of our "
"tradition, noncommercial culture was essentially unregulated. Of course, if "
"your stories were lewd, or if your song disturbed the peace, then the law "
"might intervene. But the law was never directly concerned with the creation "
"or spread of this form of culture, and it left this culture "
"<quote>free.</quote> The ordinary ways in which ordinary individuals shared "
"and transformed their culture&mdash;telling stories, reenacting scenes from "
"plays or TV, participating in fan clubs, sharing music, making "
"tapes&mdash;were left alone by the law."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:871 freeculture.xml:1901 freeculture.xml:1912
msgid "Brandeis, Louis D."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:863
msgid ""
"This is not the only purpose of copyright, though it is the overwhelmingly "
"primary purpose of the copyright established in the federal constitution.  "
"State copyright law historically protected not just the commercial interest "
"in publication, but also a privacy interest. By granting authors the "
"exclusive right to first publication, state copyright law gave authors the "
"power to control the spread of facts about them. See Samuel D. Warren and "
"Louis D. Brandeis, <quote>The Right to Privacy,</quote> Harvard Law Review 4 "
"(1890): 193, 198&ndash;200.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:857
msgid ""
"The focus of the law was on commercial creativity. At first slightly, then "
"quite extensively, the law protected the incentives of creators by granting "
"them exclusive rights to their creative work, so that they could sell those "
"exclusive rights in a commercial marketplace.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"0\"/> This is also, of course, an important part of creativity and "
"culture, and it has become an increasingly important part in America. But in "
"no sense was it dominant within our tradition. It was instead just one part, "
"a controlled part, balanced with the free."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:883 freeculture.xml:9548
msgid "Litman, Jessica"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:881
msgid ""
"See Jessica Litman, <citetitle>Digital Copyright</citetitle> (New York: "
"Prometheus Books, 2001), ch. 13.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:879
msgid ""
"This rough divide between the free and the controlled has now been "
"erased.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> The Internet has set the "
"stage for this erasure and, pushed by big media, the law has now affected "
"it. For the first time in our tradition, the ordinary ways in which "
"individuals create and share culture fall within the reach of the regulation "
"of the law, which has expanded to draw within its control a vast amount of "
"culture and creativity that it never reached before. The technology that "
"preserved the balance of our history&mdash;between uses of our culture that "
"were free and uses of our culture that were only upon permission&mdash;has "
"been undone.  The consequence is that we are less and less a free culture, "
"more and more a permission culture."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:898
msgid ""
"This change gets justified as necessary to protect commercial creativity.  "
"And indeed, protectionism is precisely its motivation. But the protectionism "
"that justifies the changes that I will describe below is not the limited and "
"balanced sort that has defined the law in the past. This is not a "
"protectionism to protect artists. It is instead a protectionism to protect "
"certain forms of business. Corporations threatened by the potential of the "
"Internet to change the way both commercial and noncommercial culture are "
"made and shared have united to induce lawmakers to use the law to protect "
"them. It is the story of RCA and Armstrong; it is the dream of the Causbys."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:911
msgid ""
"For the Internet has unleashed an extraordinary possibility for many to "
"participate in the process of building and cultivating a culture that "
"reaches far beyond local boundaries. That power has changed the marketplace "
"for making and cultivating culture generally, and that change in turn "
"threatens established content industries. The Internet is thus to the "
"industries that built and distributed content in the twentieth century what "
"FM radio was to AM radio, or what the truck was to the railroad industry of "
"the nineteenth century: the beginning of the end, or at least a substantial "
"transformation. Digital technologies, tied to the Internet, could produce a "
"vastly more competitive and vibrant market for building and cultivating "
"culture; that market could include a much wider and more diverse range of "
"creators; those creators could produce and distribute a much more vibrant "
"range of creativity; and depending upon a few important factors, those "
"creators could earn more on average from this system than creators do "
"today&mdash;all so long as the RCAs of our day don't use the law to protect "
"themselves against this competition."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:930
msgid ""
"Yet, as I argue in the pages that follow, that is precisely what is "
"happening in our culture today. These modern-day equivalents of the early "
"twentieth-century radio or nineteenth-century railroads are using their "
"power to get the law to protect them against this new, more efficient, more "
"vibrant technology for building culture. They are succeeding in their plan "
"to remake the Internet before the Internet remakes them."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:947
msgid ""
"Amy Harmon, <quote>Black Hawk Download: Moving Beyond Music, Pirates Use New "
"Tools to Turn the Net into an Illicit Video Club,</quote> <citetitle>New "
"York Times</citetitle>, 17 January 2002."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:939
msgid ""
"It doesn't seem this way to many. The battles over copyright and the "
"Internet seem remote to most. To the few who follow them, they seem mainly "
"about a much simpler brace of questions&mdash;whether <quote>piracy</quote> "
"will be permitted, and whether <quote>property</quote> will be "
"protected. The <quote>war</quote> that has been waged against the "
"technologies of the Internet&mdash;what Motion Picture Association of "
"America (MPAA) president Jack Valenti calls his <quote>own terrorist "
"war</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>&mdash;has been framed "
"as a battle about the rule of law and respect for property. To know which "
"side to take in this war, most think that we need only decide whether we're "
"for property or against it."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:956
msgid ""
"If those really were the choices, then I would be with Jack Valenti and the "
"content industry. I, too, am a believer in property, and especially in the "
"importance of what Mr. Valenti nicely calls <quote>creative "
"property.</quote> I believe that <quote>piracy</quote> is wrong, and that "
"the law, properly tuned, should punish <quote>piracy,</quote> whether on or "
"off the Internet."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:964
msgid ""
"But those simple beliefs mask a much more fundamental question and a much "
"more dramatic change. My fear is that unless we come to see this change, the "
"war to rid the world of Internet <quote>pirates</quote> will also rid our "
"culture of values that have been integral to our tradition from the start."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:978 freeculture.xml:14451
msgid "Netanel, Neil Weinstock"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:976
msgid ""
"Neil W. Netanel, <quote>Copyright and a Democratic Civil Society,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Yale Law Journal</citetitle> 106 (1996): 283.  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:970
msgid ""
"These values built a tradition that, for at least the first 180 years of our "
"Republic, guaranteed creators the right to build freely upon their past, and "
"protected creators and innovators from either state or private control. The "
"First Amendment protected creators against state control.  And as Professor "
"Neil Netanel powerfully argues,<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
"copyright law, properly balanced, protected creators against private "
"control. Our tradition was thus neither Soviet nor the tradition of "
"patrons. It instead carved out a wide berth within which creators could "
"cultivate and extend our culture."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:986
msgid ""
"Yet the law's response to the Internet, when tied to changes in the "
"technology of the Internet itself, has massively increased the effective "
"regulation of creativity in America. To build upon or critique the culture "
"around us one must ask, Oliver Twist&ndash;like, for permission first.  "
"Permission is, of course, often granted&mdash;but it is not often granted to "
"the critical or the independent. We have built a kind of cultural nobility; "
"those within the noble class live easily; those outside it don't. But it is "
"nobility of any form that is alien to our tradition."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:998
msgid ""
"The story that follows is about this war. Is it not about the "
"<quote>centrality of technology</quote> to ordinary life. I don't believe in "
"gods, digital or otherwise. Nor is it an effort to demonize any individual "
"or group, for neither do I believe in a devil, corporate or otherwise. It is "
"not a morality tale. Nor is it a call to jihad against an industry."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1006
msgid ""
"It is instead an effort to understand a hopelessly destructive war inspired "
"by the technologies of the Internet but reaching far beyond its code. And by "
"understanding this battle, it is an effort to map peace.  There is no good "
"reason for the current struggle around Internet technologies to "
"continue. There will be great harm to our tradition and culture if it is "
"allowed to continue unchecked. We must come to understand the source of this "
"war. We must resolve it soon."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1017
msgid ""
"Like the Causbys' battle, this war is, in part, about "
"<quote>property.</quote> The property of this war is not as tangible as the "
"Causbys', and no innocent chicken has yet to lose its life. Yet the ideas "
"surrounding this <quote>property</quote> are as obvious to most as the "
"Causbys' claim about the sacredness of their farm was to them. We are the "
"Causbys. Most of us take for granted the extraordinarily powerful claims "
"that the owners of <quote>intellectual property</quote> now assert. Most of "
"us, like the Causbys, treat these claims as obvious. And hence we, like the "
"Causbys, object when a new technology interferes with this property. It is "
"as plain to us as it was to them that the new technologies of the Internet "
"are <quote>trespassing</quote> upon legitimate claims of "
"<quote>property.</quote> It is as plain to us as it was to them that the law "
"should intervene to stop this trespass."
msgstr ""

#. PAGE BREAK 27
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1035
msgid ""
"And thus, when geeks and technologists defend their Armstrong or Wright "
"brothers technology, most of us are simply unsympathetic.  Common sense does "
"not revolt. Unlike in the case of the unlucky Causbys, common sense is on "
"the side of the property owners in this war. Unlike the lucky Wright "
"brothers, the Internet has not inspired a revolution on its side."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1045
msgid ""
"My hope is to push this common sense along. I have become increasingly "
"amazed by the power of this idea of intellectual property and, more "
"importantly, its power to disable critical thought by policy makers and "
"citizens. There has never been a time in our history when more of our "
"<quote>culture</quote> was as <quote>owned</quote> as it is now. And yet "
"there has never been a time when the concentration of power to control the "
"<emphasis>uses</emphasis> of culture has been as unquestioningly accepted as "
"it is now."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1055
msgid ""
"The puzzle is, Why? Is it because we have come to understand a truth about "
"the value and importance of absolute property over ideas and culture? Is it "
"because we have discovered that our tradition of rejecting such an absolute "
"claim was wrong?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1061
msgid ""
"Or is it because the idea of absolute property over ideas and culture "
"benefits the RCAs of our time and fits our own unreflective intuitions?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1065
msgid ""
"Is the radical shift away from our tradition of free culture an instance of "
"America correcting a mistake from its past, as we did after a bloody war "
"with slavery, and as we are slowly doing with inequality? Or is the radical "
"shift away from our tradition of free culture yet another example of a "
"political system captured by a few powerful special interests?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1072
msgid ""
"Does common sense lead to the extremes on this question because common sense "
"actually believes in these extremes? Or does common sense stand silent in "
"the face of these extremes because, as with Armstrong versus RCA, the more "
"powerful side has ensured that it has the more powerful view?"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 28 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1081
msgid ""
"I don't mean to be mysterious. My own views are resolved. I believe it was "
"right for common sense to revolt against the extremism of the Causbys. I "
"believe it would be right for common sense to revolt against the extreme "
"claims made today on behalf of <quote>intellectual property.</quote> What "
"the law demands today is increasingly as silly as a sheriff arresting an "
"airplane for trespass. But the consequences of this silliness will be much "
"more profound."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1091
msgid ""
"The struggle that rages just now centers on two ideas: <quote>piracy</quote> "
"and <quote>property.</quote> My aim in this book's next two parts is to "
"explore these two ideas."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1096
msgid ""
"My method is not the usual method of an academic. I don't want to plunge you "
"into a complex argument, buttressed with references to obscure French "
"theorists&mdash;however natural that is for the weird sort we academics have "
"become. Instead I begin in each part with a collection of stories that set a "
"context within which these apparently simple ideas can be more fully "
"understood."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1104
msgid ""
"The two sections set up the core claim of this book: that while the Internet "
"has indeed produced something fantastic and new, our government, pushed by "
"big media to respond to this <quote>something new,</quote> is destroying "
"something very old. Rather than understanding the changes the Internet might "
"permit, and rather than taking time to let <quote>common sense</quote> "
"resolve how best to respond, we are allowing those most threatened by the "
"changes to use their power to change the law&mdash;and more importantly, to "
"use their power to change something fundamental about who we have always "
"been."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1115
msgid ""
"We allow this, I believe, not because it is right, and not because most of "
"us really believe in these changes. We allow it because the interests most "
"threatened are among the most powerful players in our depressingly "
"compromised process of making law. This book is the story of one more "
"consequence of this form of corruption&mdash;a consequence to which most of "
"us remain oblivious."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><title>
#: freeculture.xml:1125
msgid "<quote>PIRACY</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:1129 freeculture.xml:4820
msgid "Mansfield, William Murray, Lord"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1132
msgid ""
"Since the inception of the law regulating creative property, there has been "
"a war against <quote>piracy.</quote> The precise contours of this concept, "
"<quote>piracy,</quote> are hard to sketch, but the animating injustice is "
"easy to capture.  As Lord Mansfield wrote in a case that extended the reach "
"of English copyright law to include sheet music,"
msgstr ""

#.  f1 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1144
msgid ""
"<citetitle>Bach</citetitle> v. <citetitle>Longman</citetitle>, 98 "
"Eng. Rep. 1274 (1777) (Mansfield)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1140
msgid ""
"A person may use the copy by playing it, but he has no right to rob the "
"author of the profit, by multiplying copies and disposing of them for his "
"own use.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 31 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1150
msgid ""
"Today we are in the middle of another <quote>war</quote> against "
"<quote>piracy.</quote> The Internet has provoked this war. The Internet "
"makes possible the efficient spread of content. Peer-to-peer (p2p) file "
"sharing is among the most efficient of the efficient technologies the "
"Internet enables. Using distributed intelligence, p2p systems facilitate the "
"easy spread of content in a way unimagined a generation ago."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1159
msgid ""
"This efficiency does not respect the traditional lines of copyright.  The "
"network doesn't discriminate between the sharing of copyrighted and "
"uncopyrighted content. Thus has there been a vast amount of sharing of "
"copyrighted content. That sharing in turn has excited the war, as copyright "
"owners fear the sharing will <quote>rob the author of the profit.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1167
msgid ""
"The warriors have turned to the courts, to the legislatures, and "
"increasingly to technology to defend their <quote>property</quote> against "
"this <quote>piracy.</quote> A generation of Americans, the warriors warn, is "
"being raised to believe that <quote>property</quote> should be "
"<quote>free.</quote> Forget tattoos, never mind body piercing&mdash;our kids "
"are becoming <emphasis>thieves</emphasis>!"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1175
msgid ""
"There's no doubt that <quote>piracy</quote> is wrong, and that pirates "
"should be punished. But before we summon the executioners, we should put "
"this notion of <quote>piracy</quote> in some context. For as the concept is "
"increasingly used, at its core is an extraordinary idea that is almost "
"certainly wrong."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1181
msgid "The idea goes something like this:"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1185
msgid ""
"Creative work has value; whenever I use, or take, or build upon the creative "
"work of others, I am taking from them something of value. Whenever I take "
"something of value from someone else, I should have their permission. The "
"taking of something of value from someone else without permission is "
"wrong. It is a form of piracy."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:1193
msgid "Dreyfuss, Rochelle"
msgstr ""

#.  f2 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1199
msgid ""
"See Rochelle Dreyfuss, <quote>Expressive Genericity: Trademarks as Language "
"in the Pepsi Generation,</quote> <citetitle>Notre Dame Law "
"Review</citetitle> 65 (1990): 397."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:1212 freeculture.xml:6959
msgid "Zittrain, Jonathan"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1207
msgid ""
"Lisa Bannon, <quote>The Birds May Sing, but Campers Can't Unless They Pay "
"Up,</quote> <citetitle>Wall Street Journal</citetitle>, 21 August 1996, "
"available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #3</ulink>; "
"Jonathan Zittrain, <quote>Calling Off the Copyright War: In Battle of "
"Property vs. Free Speech, No One Wins,</quote> <citetitle>Boston "
"Globe</citetitle>, 24 November 2002.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1195
msgid ""
"This view runs deep within the current debates. It is what NYU law professor "
"Rochelle Dreyfuss criticizes as the <quote>if value, then right</quote> "
"theory of creative property<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
"&mdash;if there is value, then someone must have a right to that value. It "
"is the perspective that led a composers' rights organization, ASCAP, to sue "
"the Girl Scouts for failing to pay for the songs that girls sang around Girl "
"Scout campfires.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> There was "
"<quote>value</quote> (the songs) so there must have been a "
"<quote>right</quote>&mdash;even against the Girl Scouts."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:1217
msgid "ASCAP"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 32 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1219
msgid ""
"This idea is certainly a possible understanding of how creative property "
"should work. It might well be a possible design for a system of law "
"protecting creative property. But the <quote>if value, then right</quote> "
"theory of creative property has never been America's theory of creative "
"property.  It has never taken hold within our law."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1227
msgid ""
"Instead, in our tradition, intellectual property is an instrument. It sets "
"the groundwork for a richly creative society but remains subservient to the "
"value of creativity. The current debate has this turned around. We have "
"become so concerned with protecting the instrument that we are losing sight "
"of the value."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1234
msgid ""
"The source of this confusion is a distinction that the law no longer takes "
"care to draw&mdash;the distinction between republishing someone's work on "
"the one hand and building upon or transforming that work on the "
"other. Copyright law at its birth had only publishing as its concern; "
"copyright law today regulates both."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1241
msgid ""
"Before the technologies of the Internet, this conflation didn't matter all "
"that much. The technologies of publishing were expensive; that meant the "
"vast majority of publishing was commercial. Commercial entities could bear "
"the burden of the law&mdash;even the burden of the Byzantine complexity that "
"copyright law has become. It was just one more expense of doing business."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:1248 freeculture.xml:1279
msgid "Florida, Richard"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:1249 freeculture.xml:1280
msgid "Rise of the Creative Class, The (Florida)"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1271
msgid ""
"In <citetitle>The Rise of the Creative Class</citetitle> (New York: Basic "
"Books, 2002), Richard Florida documents a shift in the nature of labor "
"toward a labor of creativity.  His work, however, doesn't directly address "
"the legal conditions under which that creativity is enabled or stifled. I "
"certainly agree with him about the importance and significance of this "
"change, but I also believe the conditions under which it will be enabled are "
"much more tenuous.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1251
msgid ""
"But with the birth of the Internet, this natural limit to the reach of the "
"law has disappeared. The law controls not just the creativity of commercial "
"creators but effectively that of anyone. Although that expansion would not "
"matter much if copyright law regulated only <quote>copying,</quote> when the "
"law regulates as broadly and obscurely as it does, the extension matters a "
"lot. The burden of this law now vastly outweighs any original "
"benefit&mdash;certainly as it affects noncommercial creativity, and "
"increasingly as it affects commercial creativity as well. Thus, as we'll see "
"more clearly in the chapters below, the law's role is less and less to "
"support creativity, and more and more to protect certain industries against "
"competition. Just at the time digital technology could unleash an "
"extraordinary range of commercial and noncommercial creativity, the law "
"burdens this creativity with insanely complex and vague rules and with the "
"threat of obscenely severe penalties. We may be seeing, as Richard Florida "
"writes, the <quote>Rise of the Creative Class.</quote><placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Unfortunately, we are also seeing an "
"extraordinary rise of regulation of this creative class."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1286
msgid ""
"These burdens make no sense in our tradition. We should begin by "
"understanding that tradition a bit more and by placing in their proper "
"context the current battles about behavior labeled <quote>piracy.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
#: freeculture.xml:1294
msgid "CHAPTER ONE: Creators"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:1296
msgid "animated cartoons"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1299
msgid ""
"In 1928, a cartoon character was born. An early Mickey Mouse made his debut "
"in May of that year, in a silent flop called <citetitle>Plane "
"Crazy</citetitle>.  In November, in New York City's Colony Theater, in the "
"first widely distributed cartoon synchronized with sound, "
"<citetitle>Steamboat Willie</citetitle> brought to life the character that "
"would become Mickey Mouse."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1306
msgid ""
"Synchronized sound had been introduced to film a year earlier in the movie "
"<citetitle>The Jazz Singer</citetitle>. That success led Walt Disney to copy "
"the technique and mix sound with cartoons. No one knew whether it would work "
"or, if it did work, whether it would win an audience. But when Disney ran a "
"test in the summer of 1928, the results were unambiguous.  As Disney "
"describes that first experiment,"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 35 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1315
msgid ""
"A couple of my boys could read music, and one of them could play a mouth "
"organ. We put them in a room where they could not see the screen and "
"arranged to pipe their sound into the room where our wives and friends were "
"going to see the picture."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1322
msgid ""
"The boys worked from a music and sound-effects score. After several false "
"starts, sound and action got off with the gun. The mouth organist played the "
"tune, the rest of us in the sound department bammed tin pans and blew slide "
"whistles on the beat.  The synchronization was pretty close."
msgstr ""

#.  f1 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1335
msgid ""
"Leonard Maltin, <citetitle>Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated "
"Cartoons</citetitle> (New York: Penguin Books, 1987), 34&ndash;35."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1329
msgid ""
"The effect on our little audience was nothing less than electric.  They "
"responded almost instinctively to this union of sound and motion. I thought "
"they were kidding me. So they put me in the audience and ran the action "
"again. It was terrible, but it was wonderful! And it was something "
"new!<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:1344
msgid "Iwerks, Ub"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1341
msgid ""
"Disney's then partner, and one of animation's most extraordinary talents, Ub "
"Iwerks, put it more strongly: <quote>I have never been so thrilled in my "
"life. Nothing since has ever equaled it.</quote> <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1347
msgid ""
"Disney had created something very new, based upon something relatively "
"new. Synchronized sound brought life to a form of creativity that had "
"rarely&mdash;except in Disney's hands&mdash;been anything more than filler "
"for other films. Throughout animation's early history, it was Disney's "
"invention that set the standard that others struggled to match.  And quite "
"often, Disney's great genius, his spark of creativity, was built upon the "
"work of others."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1356
msgid ""
"This much is familiar. What you might not know is that 1928 also marks "
"another important transition. In that year, a comic (as opposed to cartoon) "
"genius created his last independently produced silent film.  That genius was "
"Buster Keaton. The film was <citetitle>Steamboat Bill, Jr</citetitle>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1362
msgid ""
"Keaton was born into a vaudeville family in 1895. In the era of silent film, "
"he had mastered using broad physical comedy as a way to spark uncontrollable "
"laughter from his audience. <citetitle>Steamboat Bill, Jr</citetitle>. was a "
"classic of this form, famous among film buffs for its incredible stunts.  "
"The film was classic Keaton&mdash;wildly popular and among the best of its "
"genre."
msgstr ""

#.  f2 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1376
msgid ""
"I am grateful to David Gerstein and his careful history, described at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #4</ulink>.  According to Dave "
"Smith of the Disney Archives, Disney paid royalties to use the music for "
"five songs in <citetitle>Steamboat Willie</citetitle>: <quote>Steamboat "
"Bill,</quote> <quote>The Simpleton</quote> (Delille), <quote>Mischief "
"Makers</quote> (Carbonara), <quote>Joyful Hurry No. 1</quote> (Baron), and "
"<quote>Gawky Rube</quote> (Lakay). A sixth song, <quote>The Turkey in the "
"Straw,</quote> was already in the public domain. Letter from David Smith to "
"Harry Surden, 10 July 2003, on file with author."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1370
msgid ""
"<citetitle>Steamboat Bill, Jr</citetitle>. appeared before Disney's cartoon "
"Steamboat Willie.  The coincidence of titles is not coincidental. Steamboat "
"Willie is a direct cartoon parody of Steamboat Bill,<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> and both are built upon a common song as a "
"source. It is not just from the invention of synchronized sound in "
"<citetitle>The Jazz Singer</citetitle> that we get <citetitle>Steamboat "
"Willie</citetitle>. It is also from Buster Keaton's invention of Steamboat "
"Bill, Jr., itself inspired by the song <quote>Steamboat Bill,</quote> that "
"we get Steamboat Willie, and then from Steamboat Willie, Mickey Mouse."
msgstr ""

#.  f3 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1397
msgid ""
"He was also a fan of the public domain. See Chris Sprigman, <quote>The Mouse "
"that Ate the Public Domain,</quote> Findlaw, 5 March 2002, at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #5</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1393
msgid ""
"This <quote>borrowing</quote> was nothing unique, either for Disney or for "
"the industry. Disney was always parroting the feature-length mainstream "
"films of his day.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> So did many "
"others. Early cartoons are filled with knockoffs&mdash;slight variations on "
"winning themes; retellings of ancient stories. The key to success was the "
"brilliance of the differences. With Disney, it was sound that gave his "
"animation its spark. Later, it was the quality of his work relative to the "
"production-line cartoons with which he competed. Yet these additions were "
"built upon a base that was borrowed.  Disney added to the work of others "
"before him, creating something new out of something just barely old."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1412
msgid ""
"Sometimes this borrowing was slight. Sometimes it was significant.  Think "
"about the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. If you're as oblivious as I "
"was, you're likely to think that these tales are happy, sweet stories, "
"appropriate for any child at bedtime. In fact, the Grimm fairy tales are, "
"well, for us, grim. It is a rare and perhaps overly ambitious parent who "
"would dare to read these bloody, moralistic stories to his or her child, at "
"bedtime or anytime."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 37 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1421
msgid ""
"Disney took these stories and retold them in a way that carried them into a "
"new age. He animated the stories, with both characters and light. Without "
"removing the elements of fear and danger altogether, he made funny what was "
"dark and injected a genuine emotion of compassion where before there was "
"fear. And not just with the work of the Brothers Grimm. Indeed, the catalog "
"of Disney work drawing upon the work of others is astonishing when set "
"together: <citetitle>Snow White</citetitle> (1937), "
"<citetitle>Fantasia</citetitle> (1940), <citetitle>Pinocchio</citetitle> "
"(1940), <citetitle>Dumbo</citetitle> (1941), <citetitle>Bambi</citetitle> "
"(1942), <citetitle>Song of the South</citetitle> (1946), "
"<citetitle>Cinderella</citetitle> (1950), <citetitle>Alice in "
"Wonderland</citetitle> (1951), <citetitle>Robin Hood</citetitle> (1952), "
"<citetitle>Peter Pan</citetitle> (1953), <citetitle>Lady and the "
"Tramp</citetitle> (1955), <citetitle>Mulan</citetitle> (1998), "
"<citetitle>Sleeping Beauty</citetitle> (1959), <citetitle>101 "
"Dalmatians</citetitle> (1961), <citetitle>The Sword in the Stone</citetitle> "
"(1963), and <citetitle>The Jungle Book</citetitle> (1967)&mdash;not to "
"mention a recent example that we should perhaps quickly forget, "
"<citetitle>Treasure Planet</citetitle> (2003). In all of these cases, Disney "
"(or Disney, Inc.) ripped creativity from the culture around him, mixed that "
"creativity with his own extraordinary talent, and then burned that mix into "
"the soul of his culture. Rip, mix, and burn."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1444
msgid ""
"This is a kind of creativity. It is a creativity that we should remember and "
"celebrate. There are some who would say that there is no creativity except "
"this kind. We don't need to go that far to recognize its importance. We "
"could call this <quote>Disney creativity,</quote> though that would be a bit "
"misleading. It is, more precisely, <quote>Walt Disney "
"creativity</quote>&mdash;a form of expression and genius that builds upon "
"the culture around us and makes it something different."
msgstr ""

#.  f4 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1458
msgid ""
"Until 1976, copyright law granted an author the possibility of two terms: an "
"initial term and a renewal term. I have calculated the "
"<quote>average</quote> term by determining the weighted average of total "
"registrations for any particular year, and the proportion renewing. Thus, if "
"100 copyrights are registered in year 1, and only 15 are renewed, and the "
"renewal term is 28 years, then the average term is 32.2 years. For the "
"renewal data and other relevant data, see the Web site associated with this "
"book, available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link "
"#6</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1452
msgid ""
"In 1928, the culture that Disney was free to draw upon was relatively "
"fresh. The public domain in 1928 was not very old and was therefore quite "
"vibrant. The average term of copyright was just around thirty "
"years&mdash;for that minority of creative work that was in fact "
"copyrighted.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> That means that for "
"thirty years, on average, the authors or copyright holders of a creative "
"work had an <quote>exclusive right</quote> to control certain uses of the "
"work. To use this copyrighted work in limited ways required the permission "
"of the copyright owner."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1475
msgid ""
"At the end of a copyright term, a work passes into the public domain.  No "
"permission is then needed to draw upon or use that work. No permission and, "
"hence, no lawyers. The public domain is a <quote>lawyer-free zone.</quote> "
"Thus, most of the content from the nineteenth century was free for Disney to "
"use and build upon in 1928. It was free for anyone&mdash; whether connected "
"or not, whether rich or not, whether approved or not&mdash;to use and build "
"upon."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 38 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1484
msgid ""
"This is the ways things always were&mdash;until quite recently. For most of "
"our history, the public domain was just over the horizon. From until 1978, "
"the average copyright term was never more than thirty-two years, meaning "
"that most culture just a generation and a half old was free for anyone to "
"build upon without the permission of anyone else.  Today's equivalent would "
"be for creative work from the 1960s and 1970s to now be free for the next "
"Walt Disney to build upon without permission. Yet today, the public domain "
"is presumptive only for content from before the Great Depression."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1497
msgid ""
"Of course, Walt Disney had no monopoly on <quote>Walt Disney "
"creativity.</quote> Nor does America. The norm of free culture has, until "
"recently, and except within totalitarian nations, been broadly exploited and "
"quite universal."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1503
msgid ""
"Consider, for example, a form of creativity that seems strange to many "
"Americans but that is inescapable within Japanese culture: "
"<citetitle>manga</citetitle>, or comics. The Japanese are fanatics about "
"comics. Some 40 percent of publications are comics, and 30 percent of "
"publication revenue derives from comics. They are everywhere in Japanese "
"society, at every magazine stand, carried by a large proportion of commuters "
"on Japan's extraordinary system of public transportation."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1512
msgid ""
"Americans tend to look down upon this form of culture. That's an "
"unattractive characteristic of ours. We're likely to misunderstand much "
"about manga, because few of us have ever read anything close to the stories "
"that these <quote>graphic novels</quote> tell. For the Japanese, manga cover "
"every aspect of social life. For us, comics are <quote>men in "
"tights.</quote> And anyway, it's not as if the New York subways are filled "
"with readers of Joyce or even Hemingway. People of different cultures "
"distract themselves in different ways, the Japanese in this interestingly "
"different way."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1523
msgid ""
"But my purpose here is not to understand manga. It is to describe a variant "
"on manga that from a lawyer's perspective is quite odd, but from a Disney "
"perspective is quite familiar."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 39 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1528
msgid ""
"This is the phenomenon of <citetitle>doujinshi</citetitle>. Doujinshi are "
"also comics, but they are a kind of copycat comic. A rich ethic governs the "
"creation of doujinshi. It is not doujinshi if it is "
"<emphasis>just</emphasis> a copy; the artist must make a contribution to the "
"art he copies, by transforming it either subtly or significantly. A "
"doujinshi comic can thus take a mainstream comic and develop it "
"differently&mdash;with a different story line. Or the comic can keep the "
"character in character but change its look slightly. There is no formula for "
"what makes the doujinshi sufficiently <quote>different.</quote> But they "
"must be different if they are to be considered true doujinshi. Indeed, there "
"are committees that review doujinshi for inclusion within shows and reject "
"any copycat comic that is merely a copy."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1543
msgid ""
"These copycat comics are not a tiny part of the manga market. They are "
"huge. More than 33,000 <quote>circles</quote> of creators from across Japan "
"produce these bits of Walt Disney creativity. More than 450,000 Japanese "
"come together twice a year, in the largest public gathering in the country, "
"to exchange and sell them. This market exists in parallel to the mainstream "
"commercial manga market. In some ways, it obviously competes with that "
"market, but there is no sustained effort by those who control the commercial "
"manga market to shut the doujinshi market down. It flourishes, despite the "
"competition and despite the law."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1554
msgid ""
"The most puzzling feature of the doujinshi market, for those trained in the "
"law, at least, is that it is allowed to exist at all. Under Japanese "
"copyright law, which in this respect (on paper) mirrors American copyright "
"law, the doujinshi market is an illegal one. Doujinshi are plainly "
"<quote>derivative works.</quote> There is no general practice by doujinshi "
"artists of securing the permission of the manga creators. Instead, the "
"practice is simply to take and modify the creations of others, as Walt "
"Disney did with <citetitle>Steamboat Bill, Jr</citetitle>. Under both "
"Japanese and American law, that <quote>taking</quote> without the permission "
"of the original copyright owner is illegal. It is an infringement of the "
"original copyright to make a copy or a derivative work without the original "
"copyright owner's permission."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:1568
msgid "Winick, Judd"
msgstr ""

#.  f5 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1581
msgid ""
"For an excellent history, see Scott McCloud, <citetitle>Reinventing "
"Comics</citetitle> (New York: Perennial, 2000)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1571
msgid ""
"Yet this illegal market exists and indeed flourishes in Japan, and in the "
"view of many, it is precisely because it exists that Japanese manga "
"flourish. As American graphic novelist Judd Winick said to me, <quote>The "
"early days of comics in America are very much like what's going on in Japan "
"now. &hellip; American comics were born out of copying each other. &hellip; "
"That's how [the artists] learn to draw&mdash;by going into comic books and "
"not tracing them, but looking at them and copying them</quote> and building "
"from them.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:1585
msgid "Superman comics"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1587
msgid ""
"American comics now are quite different, Winick explains, in part because of "
"the legal difficulty of adapting comics the way doujinshi are "
"allowed. Speaking of Superman, Winick told me, <quote>there are these rules "
"and you have to stick to them.</quote> There are things Superman "
"<quote>cannot</quote> do. <quote>As a creator, it's frustrating having to "
"stick to some parameters which are fifty years old.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#.  f6 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1604
msgid ""
"See Salil K. Mehra, <quote>Copyright and Comics in Japan: Does Law Explain "
"Why All the Comics My Kid Watches Are Japanese Imports?</quote> "
"<citetitle>Rutgers Law Review</citetitle> 55 (2002): 155, "
"182. <quote>[T]here might be a collective economic rationality that would "
"lead manga and anime artists to forgo bringing legal actions for "
"infringement. One hypothesis is that all manga artists may be better off "
"collectively if they set aside their individual self-interest and decide not "
"to press their legal rights. This is essentially a prisoner's dilemma "
"solved.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1596
msgid ""
"The norm in Japan mitigates this legal difficulty. Some say it is precisely "
"the benefit accruing to the Japanese manga market that explains the "
"mitigation. Temple University law professor Salil Mehra, for example, "
"hypothesizes that the manga market accepts these technical violations "
"because they spur the manga market to be more wealthy and "
"productive. Everyone would be worse off if doujinshi were banned, so the law "
"does not ban doujinshi.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1615
msgid ""
"The problem with this story, however, as Mehra plainly acknowledges, is that "
"the mechanism producing this laissez faire response is not clear. It may "
"well be that the market as a whole is better off if doujinshi are permitted "
"rather than banned, but that doesn't explain why individual copyright owners "
"don't sue nonetheless. If the law has no general exception for doujinshi, "
"and indeed in some cases individual manga artists have sued doujinshi "
"artists, why is there not a more general pattern of blocking this "
"<quote>free taking</quote> by the doujinshi culture?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1626
msgid ""
"I spent four wonderful months in Japan, and I asked this question as often "
"as I could. Perhaps the best account in the end was offered by a friend from "
"a major Japanese law firm. <quote>We don't have enough lawyers,</quote> he "
"told me one afternoon. There <quote>just aren't enough resources to "
"prosecute cases like this.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 41 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1633
msgid ""
"This is a theme to which we will return: that regulation by law is a "
"function of both the words on the books and the costs of making those words "
"have effect. For now, focus on the obvious question that is begged: Would "
"Japan be better off with more lawyers? Would manga be richer if doujinshi "
"artists were regularly prosecuted? Would the Japanese gain something "
"important if they could end this practice of uncompensated sharing? Does "
"piracy here hurt the victims of the piracy, or does it help them? Would "
"lawyers fighting this piracy help their clients or hurt them? Let's pause "
"for a moment."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1646
msgid ""
"If you're like I was a decade ago, or like most people are when they first "
"start thinking about these issues, then just about now you should be puzzled "
"about something you hadn't thought through before."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:1663 freeculture.xml:2875 freeculture.xml:4527 freeculture.xml:4750 freeculture.xml:7345 freeculture.xml:8464
msgid "Vaidhyanathan, Siva"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1656
msgid ""
"The term <citetitle>intellectual property</citetitle> is of relatively "
"recent origin. See Siva Vaidhyanathan, <citetitle>Copyrights and "
"Copywrongs</citetitle>, 11 (New York: New York University Press, 2001). See "
"also Lawrence Lessig, <citetitle>The Future of Ideas</citetitle> (New York: "
"Random House, 2001), 293 n. 26. The term accurately describes a set of "
"<quote>property</quote> rights&mdash;copyright, patents, trademark, and "
"trade-secret&mdash;but the nature of those rights is very different.  "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1651
msgid ""
"We live in a world that celebrates <quote>property.</quote> I am one of "
"those celebrants.  I believe in the value of property in general, and I also "
"believe in the value of that weird form of property that lawyers call "
"<quote>intellectual property.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"0\"/> A large, diverse society cannot survive without property; a "
"large, diverse, and modern society cannot flourish without intellectual "
"property."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1670
msgid ""
"But it takes just a second's reflection to realize that there is plenty of "
"value out there that <quote>property</quote> doesn't capture. I don't mean "
"<quote>money can't buy you love,</quote> but rather, value that is plainly "
"part of a process of production, including commercial as well as "
"noncommercial production.  If Disney animators had stolen a set of pencils "
"to draw Steamboat Willie, we'd have no hesitation in condemning that taking "
"as wrong&mdash; even though trivial, even if unnoticed. Yet there was "
"nothing wrong, at least under the law of the day, with Disney's taking from "
"Buster Keaton or from the Brothers Grimm. There was nothing wrong with the "
"taking from Keaton because Disney's use would have been considered "
"<quote>fair.</quote> There was nothing wrong with the taking from the Grimms "
"because the Grimms' work was in the public domain."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 42 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1685
msgid ""
"Thus, even though the things that Disney took&mdash;or more generally, the "
"things taken by anyone exercising Walt Disney creativity&mdash;are valuable, "
"our tradition does not treat those takings as wrong. Some things remain free "
"for the taking within a free culture, and that freedom is good."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1694
msgid ""
"The same with the doujinshi culture. If a doujinshi artist broke into a "
"publisher's office and ran off with a thousand copies of his latest "
"work&mdash;or even one copy&mdash;without paying, we'd have no hesitation in "
"saying the artist was wrong. In addition to having trespassed, he would have "
"stolen something of value. The law bans that stealing in whatever form, "
"whether large or small."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1702
msgid ""
"Yet there is an obvious reluctance, even among Japanese lawyers, to say that "
"the copycat comic artists are <quote>stealing.</quote> This form of Walt "
"Disney creativity is seen as fair and right, even if lawyers in particular "
"find it hard to say why."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1708
msgid ""
"It's the same with a thousand examples that appear everywhere once you begin "
"to look. Scientists build upon the work of other scientists without asking "
"or paying for the privilege. (<quote>Excuse me, Professor Einstein, but may "
"I have permission to use your theory of relativity to show that you were "
"wrong about quantum physics?</quote>) Acting companies perform adaptations "
"of the works of Shakespeare without securing permission from anyone. (Does "
"<emphasis>anyone</emphasis> believe Shakespeare would be better spread "
"within our culture if there were a central Shakespeare rights clearinghouse "
"that all productions of Shakespeare must appeal to first?) And Hollywood "
"goes through cycles with a certain kind of movie: five asteroid films in the "
"late 1990s; two volcano disaster films in 1997."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 43 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1722
msgid ""
"Creators here and everywhere are always and at all times building upon the "
"creativity that went before and that surrounds them now.  That building is "
"always and everywhere at least partially done without permission and without "
"compensating the original creator. No society, free or controlled, has ever "
"demanded that every use be paid for or that permission for Walt Disney "
"creativity must always be sought. Instead, every society has left a certain "
"bit of its culture free for the taking&mdash;free societies more fully than "
"unfree, perhaps, but all societies to some degree."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1733
msgid ""
"The hard question is therefore not <emphasis>whether</emphasis> a culture is "
"free. All cultures are free to some degree. The hard question instead is "
"<quote><emphasis>How</emphasis> free is this culture?</quote> How much, and "
"how broadly, is the culture free for others to take and build upon? Is that "
"freedom limited to party members? To members of the royal family? To the top "
"ten corporations on the New York Stock Exchange? Or is that freedom spread "
"broadly? To artists generally, whether affiliated with the Met or not? To "
"musicians generally, whether white or not? To filmmakers generally, whether "
"affiliated with a studio or not?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1745
msgid ""
"Free cultures are cultures that leave a great deal open for others to build "
"upon; unfree, or permission, cultures leave much less. Ours was a free "
"culture. It is becoming much less so."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
#: freeculture.xml:1753
msgid "CHAPTER TWO: <quote>Mere Copyists</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:1755
msgid "photography"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:1765
msgid "Daguerre, Louis"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1758
msgid ""
"In 1839, Louis Daguerre invented the first practical technology for "
"producing what we would call <quote>photographs.</quote> Appropriately "
"enough, they were called <quote>daguerreotypes.</quote> The process was "
"complicated and expensive, and the field was thus limited to professionals "
"and a few zealous and wealthy amateurs. (There was even an American Daguerre "
"Association that helped regulate the industry, as do all such associations, "
"by keeping competition down so as to keep prices up.)  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:1777
msgid "Talbot, William"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1768
msgid ""
"Yet despite high prices, the demand for daguerreotypes was strong.  This "
"pushed inventors to find simpler and cheaper ways to make <quote>automatic "
"pictures.</quote> William Talbot soon discovered a process for making "
"<quote>negatives.</quote> But because the negatives were glass, and had to "
"be kept wet, the process still remained expensive and cumbersome. In the "
"1870s, dry plates were developed, making it easier to separate the taking of "
"a picture from its developing. These were still plates of glass, and thus it "
"was still not a process within reach of most amateurs.  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:1780
msgid "Eastman, George"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 45 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1783
msgid ""
"The technological change that made mass photography possible didn't happen "
"until 1888, and was the creation of a single man. George Eastman, himself an "
"amateur photographer, was frustrated by the technology of photographs made "
"with plates. In a flash of insight (so to speak), Eastman saw that if the "
"film could be made to be flexible, it could be held on a single "
"spindle. That roll could then be sent to a developer, driving the costs of "
"photography down substantially. By lowering the costs, Eastman expected he "
"could dramatically broaden the population of photographers."
msgstr ""

#.  f1 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1800
msgid ""
"Reese V. Jenkins, <citetitle>Images and Enterprise</citetitle> (Baltimore: "
"Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975), 112."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:1802
msgid "Kodak Primer, The (Eastman)"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1795
msgid ""
"Eastman developed flexible, emulsion-coated paper film and placed rolls of "
"it in small, simple cameras: the Kodak. The device was marketed on the basis "
"of its simplicity. <quote>You press the button and we do the "
"rest.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> As he described in "
"<citetitle>The Kodak Primer</citetitle>: <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:1819 freeculture.xml:1842
msgid "Coe, Brian"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1817
msgid ""
"Brian Coe, <citetitle>The Birth of Photography</citetitle> (New York: "
"Taplinger Publishing, 1977), 53.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1806
msgid ""
"The principle of the Kodak system is the separation of the work that any "
"person whomsoever can do in making a photograph, from the work that only an "
"expert can do. &hellip; We furnish anybody, man, woman or child, who has "
"sufficient intelligence to point a box straight and press a button, with an "
"instrument which altogether removes from the practice of photography the "
"necessity for exceptional facilities or, in fact, any special knowledge of "
"the art. It can be employed without preliminary study, without a darkroom "
"and without chemicals.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  f3 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1835
msgid "Jenkins, 177."
msgstr ""

#.  f4 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1839
msgid "Based on a chart in Jenkins, p. 178."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1824
msgid ""
"For $25, anyone could make pictures. The camera came preloaded with film, "
"and when it had been used, the camera was returned to an Eastman factory, "
"where the film was developed. Over time, of course, the cost of the camera "
"and the ease with which it could be used both improved. Roll film thus "
"became the basis for the explosive growth of popular photography. Eastman's "
"camera first went on sale in 1888; one year later, Kodak was printing more "
"than six thousand negatives a day.  From 1888 through 1909, while industrial "
"production was rising by 4.7 percent, photographic equipment and material "
"sales increased by 11 percent.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
"Eastman Kodak's sales during the same period experienced an average annual "
"increase of over 17 percent.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  f5 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1857
msgid "Coe, 58."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1846
msgid ""
"The real significance of Eastman's invention, however, was not economic. It "
"was social. Professional photography gave individuals a glimpse of places "
"they would never otherwise see. Amateur photography gave them the ability to "
"record their own lives in a way they had never been able to do before. As "
"author Brian Coe notes, <quote>For the first time the snapshot album "
"provided the man on the street with a permanent record of his family and its "
"activities. &hellip; For the first time in history there exists an authentic "
"visual record of the appearance and activities of the common man made "
"without [literary] interpretation or bias.</quote><placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1861
msgid ""
"In this way, the Kodak camera and film were technologies of expression.  The "
"pencil or paintbrush was also a technology of expression, of course. But it "
"took years of training before they could be deployed by amateurs in any "
"useful or effective way. With the Kodak, expression was possible much sooner "
"and more simply. The barrier to expression was lowered. Snobs would sneer at "
"its <quote>quality</quote>; professionals would discount it as "
"irrelevant. But watch a child study how best to frame a picture and you get "
"a sense of the experience of creativity that the Kodak enabled. Democratic "
"tools gave ordinary people a way to express themselves more easily than any "
"tools could have before."
msgstr ""

#.  f6 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1883
msgid ""
"For illustrative cases, see, for example, <citetitle>Pavesich</citetitle> "
"v. <citetitle>N.E. Life Ins. Co</citetitle>., 50 S.E. 68 (Ga. 1905); "
"<citetitle>Foster-Milburn Co</citetitle>. v. <citetitle>Chinn</citetitle>, "
"123090 S.W. 364, 366 (Ky. 1909); <citetitle>Corliss</citetitle> "
"v. <citetitle>Walker</citetitle>, 64 F. 280 (Mass.  Dist. Ct. 1894)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1874
msgid ""
"What was required for this technology to flourish? Obviously, Eastman's "
"genius was an important part. But also important was the legal environment "
"within which Eastman's invention grew. For early in the history of "
"photography, there was a series of judicial decisions that could well have "
"changed the course of photography substantially.  Courts were asked whether "
"the photographer, amateur or professional, required permission before he "
"could capture and print whatever image he wanted. Their answer was "
"no.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 47 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1891
msgid ""
"The arguments in favor of requiring permission will sound surprisingly "
"familiar. The photographer was <quote>taking</quote> something from the "
"person or building whose photograph he shot&mdash;pirating something of "
"value. Some even thought he was taking the target's soul. Just as Disney was "
"not free to take the pencils that his animators used to draw Mickey, so, "
"too, should these photographers not be free to take images that they thought "
"valuable."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:1913
msgid "Warren, Samuel D."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1910
msgid ""
"Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis, <quote>The Right to Privacy,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Harvard Law Review</citetitle> 4 (1890): 193.  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1903
msgid ""
"On the other side was an argument that should be familiar, as well.  Sure, "
"there may be something of value being used. But citizens should have the "
"right to capture at least those images that stand in public view.  (Louis "
"Brandeis, who would become a Supreme Court Justice, thought the rule should "
"be different for images from private spaces.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"0\"/>) It may be that this means that the photographer gets something "
"for nothing. Just as Disney could take inspiration from <citetitle>Steamboat "
"Bill, Jr</citetitle>. or the Brothers Grimm, the photographer should be free "
"to capture an image without compensating the source."
msgstr ""

#.  f8 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1930
msgid ""
"See Melville B. Nimmer, <quote>The Right of Publicity,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Law and Contemporary Problems</citetitle> 19 (1954): 203; William "
"L. Prosser, <quote>Privacy,</quote> <citetitle>California Law "
"Review</citetitle> 48 (1960) 398&ndash;407; <citetitle>White</citetitle> "
"v. <citetitle>Samsung Electronics America, Inc</citetitle>., 971 F.  2d 1395 "
"(9th Cir. 1992), cert. denied, 508 U.S. 951 (1993)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1920
msgid ""
"Fortunately for Mr. Eastman, and for photography in general, these early "
"decisions went in favor of the pirates. In general, no permission would be "
"required before an image could be captured and shared with others. Instead, "
"permission was presumed. Freedom was the default.  (The law would eventually "
"craft an exception for famous people: commercial photographers who snap "
"pictures of famous people for commercial purposes have more restrictions "
"than the rest of us. But in the ordinary case, the image can be captured "
"without clearing the rights to do the capturing.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>)"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1938
msgid ""
"We can only speculate about how photography would have developed had the law "
"gone the other way. If the presumption had been against the photographer, "
"then the photographer would have had to demonstrate permission. Perhaps "
"Eastman Kodak would have had to demonstrate permission, too, before it "
"developed the film upon which images were captured. After all, if permission "
"were not granted, then Eastman Kodak would be benefiting from the "
"<quote>theft</quote> committed by the photographer. Just as Napster "
"benefited from the copyright infringements committed by Napster users, Kodak "
"would be benefiting from the <quote>image-right</quote> infringement of its "
"photographers. We could imagine the law then requiring that some form of "
"permission be demonstrated before a company developed pictures. We could "
"imagine a system developing to demonstrate that permission."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 48 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1955
msgid ""
"But though we could imagine this system of permission, it would be very hard "
"to see how photography could have flourished as it did if the requirement "
"for permission had been built into the rules that govern it. Photography "
"would have existed. It would have grown in importance over "
"time. Professionals would have continued to use the technology as they "
"did&mdash;since professionals could have more easily borne the burdens of "
"the permission system. But the spread of photography to ordinary people "
"would not have occurred. Nothing like that growth would have been "
"realized. And certainly, nothing like that growth in a democratic technology "
"of expression would have been realized.  If you drive through San "
"Francisco's Presidio, you might see two gaudy yellow school buses painted "
"over with colorful and striking images, and the logo <quote>Just "
"Think!</quote> in place of the name of a school. But there's little that's "
"<quote>just</quote> cerebral in the projects that these busses enable.  "
"These buses are filled with technologies that teach kids to tinker with "
"film. Not the film of Eastman. Not even the film of your VCR.  Rather the "
"<quote>film</quote> of digital cameras. Just Think! is a project that "
"enables kids to make films, as a way to understand and critique the filmed "
"culture that they find all around them. Each year, these busses travel to "
"more than thirty schools and enable three hundred to five hundred children "
"to learn something about media by doing something with media.  By doing, "
"they think. By tinkering, they learn."
msgstr ""

#.  f9 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1988
msgid ""
"H. Edward Goldberg, <quote>Essential Presentation Tools: Hardware and "
"Software You Need to Create Digital Multimedia Presentations,</quote> "
"cadalyst, February 2002, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #7</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:1982
msgid ""
"These buses are not cheap, but the technology they carry is increasingly "
"so. The cost of a high-quality digital video system has fallen "
"dramatically.  As one analyst puts it, <quote>Five years ago, a good "
"real-time digital video editing system cost $25,000. Today you can get "
"professional quality for $595.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"0\"/> These buses are filled with technology that would have cost "
"hundreds of thousands just ten years ago. And it is now feasible to imagine "
"not just buses like this, but classrooms across the country where kids are "
"learning more and more of something teachers call <quote>media "
"literacy.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2005
msgid "Yanofsky, Dave"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2000
msgid ""
"<quote>Media literacy,</quote> as Dave Yanofsky, the executive director of "
"Just Think!, puts it, <quote>is the ability &hellip; to understand, analyze, "
"and deconstruct media images. Its aim is to make [kids] literate about the "
"way media works, the way it's constructed, the way it's delivered, and the "
"way people access it.</quote> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2008
msgid ""
"This may seem like an odd way to think about <quote>literacy.</quote> For "
"most people, literacy is about reading and writing. Faulkner and Hemingway "
"and noticing split infinitives are the things that <quote>literate</quote> "
"people know about."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2013 freeculture.xml:2509 freeculture.xml:6379 freeculture.xml:7209 freeculture.xml:8295 freeculture.xml:8367
msgid "advertising"
msgstr ""

#.  f10 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2019
msgid ""
"Judith Van Evra, <citetitle>Television and Child Development</citetitle> "
"(Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1990); <quote>Findings on "
"Family and TV Study,</quote> <citetitle>Denver Post</citetitle>, 25 May "
"1997, B6."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2015
msgid ""
"Maybe. But in a world where children see on average 390 hours of television "
"commercials per year, or between 20,000 and 45,000 commercials "
"generally,<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> it is increasingly "
"important to understand the <quote>grammar</quote> of media. For just as "
"there is a grammar for the written word, so, too, is there one for "
"media. And just as kids learn how to write by writing lots of terrible "
"prose, kids learn how to write media by constructing lots of (at least at "
"first) terrible media."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2030
msgid ""
"A growing field of academics and activists sees this form of literacy as "
"crucial to the next generation of culture. For though anyone who has written "
"understands how difficult writing is&mdash;how difficult it is to sequence "
"the story, to keep a reader's attention, to craft language to be "
"understandable&mdash;few of us have any real sense of how difficult media "
"is. Or more fundamentally, few of us have a sense of how media works, how it "
"holds an audience or leads it through a story, how it triggers emotion or "
"builds suspense."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2040
msgid ""
"It took filmmaking a generation before it could do these things well.  But "
"even then, the knowledge was in the filming, not in writing about the "
"film. The skill came from experiencing the making of a film, not from "
"reading a book about it. One learns to write by writing and then reflecting "
"upon what one has written. One learns to write with images by making them "
"and then reflecting upon what one has created."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2047
msgid "Crichton, Michael"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2061 freeculture.xml:2121 freeculture.xml:2128 freeculture.xml:2572
msgid "Barish, Stephanie"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2062
msgid "Daley, Elizabeth"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2059
msgid ""
"Interview with Elizabeth Daley and Stephanie Barish, 13 December 2002.  "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  f12 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2073
msgid ""
"See Scott Steinberg, <quote>Crichton Gets Medieval on PCs,</quote> E!online, "
"4 November 2000, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #8</ulink>; "
"<quote>Timeline,</quote> 22 November 2000, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #9</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2049
msgid ""
"This grammar has changed as media has changed. When it was just film, as "
"Elizabeth Daley, executive director of the University of Southern "
"California's Annenberg Center for Communication and dean of the USC School "
"of Cinema-Television, explained to me, the grammar was about <quote>the "
"placement of objects, color, &hellip; rhythm, pacing, and "
"texture.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> But as computers "
"open up an interactive space where a story is <quote>played</quote> as well "
"as experienced, that grammar changes. The simple control of narrative is "
"lost, and so other techniques are necessary. Author Michael Crichton had "
"mastered the narrative of science fiction.  But when he tried to design a "
"computer game based on one of his works, it was a new craft he had to "
"learn. How to lead people through a game without their feeling they have "
"been led was not obvious, even to a wildly successful author.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2080
msgid "computer games"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2082
msgid ""
"This skill is precisely the craft a filmmaker learns. As Daley describes, "
"<quote>people are very surprised about how they are led through a film. [I]t "
"is perfectly constructed to keep you from seeing it, so you have no idea. If "
"a filmmaker succeeds you do not know how you were led.</quote> If you know "
"you were led through a film, the film has failed."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2089
msgid ""
"Yet the push for an expanded literacy&mdash;one that goes beyond text to "
"include audio and visual elements&mdash;is not about making better film "
"directors.  The aim is not to improve the profession of filmmaking at all.  "
"Instead, as Daley explained,"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2096
msgid ""
"From my perspective, probably the most important digital divide is not "
"access to a box. It's the ability to be empowered with the language that "
"that box works in. Otherwise only a very few people can write with this "
"language, and all the rest of us are reduced to being read-only."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2104
msgid ""
"<quote>Read-only.</quote> Passive recipients of culture produced elsewhere.  "
"Couch potatoes. Consumers. This is the world of media from the twentieth "
"century."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2120
msgid "Interview with Daley and Barish.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  f31 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2125 freeculture.xml:3890 freeculture.xml:4939 freeculture.xml:8183
msgid "Ibid."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2109
msgid ""
"The twenty-first century could be different. This is the crucial point: It "
"could be both read and write. Or at least reading and better understanding "
"the craft of writing. Or best, reading and understanding the tools that "
"enable the writing to lead or mislead. The aim of any literacy, and this "
"literacy in particular, is to <quote>empower people to choose the "
"appropriate language for what they need to create or "
"express.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> It is to enable "
"students <quote>to communicate in the language of the twenty-first "
"century.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2130
msgid ""
"As with any language, this language comes more easily to some than to "
"others. It doesn't necessarily come more easily to those who excel in "
"written language. Daley and Stephanie Barish, director of the Institute for "
"Multimedia Literacy at the Annenberg Center, describe one particularly "
"poignant example of a project they ran in a high school.  The high school "
"was a very poor inner-city Los Angeles school. In all the traditional "
"measures of success, this school was a failure. But Daley and Barish ran a "
"program that gave kids an opportunity to use film to express meaning about "
"something the students know something about&mdash;gun violence."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2142
msgid ""
"The class was held on Friday afternoons, and it created a relatively new "
"problem for the school. While the challenge in most classes was getting the "
"kids to come, the challenge in this class was keeping them away. The "
"<quote>kids were showing up at 6 A.M. and leaving at 5 at night,</quote> "
"said Barish. They were working harder than in any other class to do what "
"education should be about&mdash;learning how to express themselves."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2150
msgid ""
"Using whatever <quote>free web stuff they could find,</quote> and relatively "
"simple tools to enable the kids to mix <quote>image, sound, and "
"text,</quote> Barish said this class produced a series of projects that "
"showed something about gun violence that few would otherwise "
"understand. This was an issue close to the lives of these students. The "
"project <quote>gave them a tool and empowered them to be able to both "
"understand it and talk about it,</quote> Barish explained. That tool "
"succeeded in creating expression&mdash;far more successfully and powerfully "
"than could have been created using only text. <quote>If you had said to "
"these students, `you have to do it in text,' they would've just thrown their "
"hands up and gone and done something else,</quote> Barish described, in "
"part, no doubt, because expressing themselves in text is not something these "
"students can do well. Yet neither is text a form in which "
"<emphasis>these</emphasis> ideas can be expressed well. The power of this "
"message depended upon its connection to this form of expression."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 52 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2169
msgid ""
"<quote>But isn't education about teaching kids to write?</quote> I asked. In "
"part, of course, it is. But why are we teaching kids to write? Education, "
"Daley explained, is about giving students a way of <quote>constructing "
"meaning.</quote> To say that that means just writing is like saying teaching "
"writing is only about teaching kids how to spell. Text is one part&mdash;and "
"increasingly, not the most powerful part&mdash;of constructing meaning. As "
"Daley explained in the most moving part of our interview,"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2180
msgid ""
"What you want is to give these students ways of constructing meaning. If all "
"you give them is text, they're not going to do it.  Because they can't. You "
"know, you've got Johnny who can look at a video, he can play a video game, "
"he can do graffiti all over your walls, he can take your car apart, and he "
"can do all sorts of other things. He just can't read your text. So Johnny "
"comes to school and you say, <quote>Johnny, you're illiterate. Nothing you "
"can do matters.</quote> Well, Johnny then has two choices: He can dismiss "
"you or he [can] dismiss himself. If his ego is healthy at all, he's going to "
"dismiss you. [But i]nstead, if you say, <quote>Well, with all these things "
"that you can do, let's talk about this issue. Play for me music that you "
"think reflects that, or show me images that you think reflect that, or draw "
"for me something that reflects that.</quote> Not by giving a kid a video "
"camera and &hellip; saying, <quote>Let's go have fun with the video camera "
"and make a little movie.</quote> But instead, really help you take these "
"elements that you understand, that are your language, and construct meaning "
"about the topic.&hellip;"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2199
msgid ""
"That empowers enormously. And then what happens, of course, is eventually, "
"as it has happened in all these classes, they bump up against the fact, "
"<quote>I need to explain this and I really need to write something.</quote> "
"And as one of the teachers told Stephanie, they would rewrite a paragraph 5, "
"6, 7, 8 times, till they got it right."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 53 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2206
msgid ""
"Because they needed to. There was a reason for doing it. They needed to say "
"something, as opposed to just jumping through your hoops. They actually "
"needed to use a language that they didn't speak very well. But they had come "
"to understand that they had a lot of power with this language."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2217
msgid ""
"When two planes crashed into the World Trade Center, another into the "
"Pentagon, and a fourth into a Pennsylvania field, all media around the world "
"shifted to this news. Every moment of just about every day for that week, "
"and for weeks after, television in particular, and media generally, retold "
"the story of the events we had just witnessed. The telling was a retelling, "
"because we had seen the events that were described. The genius of this awful "
"act of terrorism was that the delayed second attack was perfectly timed to "
"assure that the whole world would be watching."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2228
msgid ""
"These retellings had an increasingly familiar feel. There was music scored "
"for the intermissions, and fancy graphics that flashed across the "
"screen. There was a formula to interviews. There was <quote>balance,</quote> "
"and seriousness. This was news choreographed in the way we have increasingly "
"come to expect it, <quote>news as entertainment,</quote> even if the "
"entertainment is tragedy."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2235 freeculture.xml:8122 freeculture.xml:8361
msgid "ABC"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2236
msgid "CBS"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2238
msgid ""
"But in addition to this produced news about the <quote>tragedy of September "
"11,</quote> those of us tied to the Internet came to see a very different "
"production as well. The Internet was filled with accounts of the same "
"events. Yet these Internet accounts had a very different flavor. Some people "
"constructed photo pages that captured images from around the world and "
"presented them as slide shows with text. Some offered open letters. There "
"were sound recordings. There was anger and frustration.  There were attempts "
"to provide context. There was, in short, an extraordinary worldwide barn "
"raising, in the sense Mike Godwin uses the term in his book <citetitle>Cyber "
"Rights</citetitle>, around a news event that had captured the attention of "
"the world. There was ABC and CBS, but there was also the Internet."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 54 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2252
msgid ""
"I don't mean simply to praise the Internet&mdash;though I do think the "
"people who supported this form of speech should be praised. I mean instead "
"to point to a significance in this form of speech. For like a Kodak, the "
"Internet enables people to capture images. And like in a movie by a student "
"on the <quote>Just Think!</quote> bus, the visual images could be mixed with "
"sound or text."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2262
msgid ""
"But unlike any technology for simply capturing images, the Internet allows "
"these creations to be shared with an extraordinary number of people, "
"practically instantaneously. This is something new in our "
"tradition&mdash;not just that culture can be captured mechanically, and "
"obviously not just that events are commented upon critically, but that this "
"mix of captured images, sound, and commentary can be widely spread "
"practically instantaneously."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2271
msgid ""
"September 11 was not an aberration. It was a beginning. Around the same "
"time, a form of communication that has grown dramatically was just beginning "
"to come into public consciousness: the Web-log, or blog. The blog is a kind "
"of public diary, and within some cultures, such as in Japan, it functions "
"very much like a diary. In those cultures, it records private facts in a "
"public way&mdash;it's a kind of electronic <citetitle>Jerry "
"Springer</citetitle>, available anywhere in the world."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2280
msgid ""
"But in the United States, blogs have taken on a very different character.  "
"There are some who use the space simply to talk about their private "
"life. But there are many who use the space to engage in public "
"discourse. Discussing matters of public import, criticizing others who are "
"mistaken in their views, criticizing politicians about the decisions they "
"make, offering solutions to problems we all see: blogs create the sense of a "
"virtual public meeting, but one in which we don't all hope to be there at "
"the same time and in which conversations are not necessarily linked. The "
"best of the blog entries are relatively short; they point directly to words "
"used by others, criticizing with or adding to them.  They are arguably the "
"most important form of unchoreographed public discourse that we have."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 55 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2294
msgid ""
"That's a strong statement. Yet it says as much about our democracy as it "
"does about blogs. This is the part of America that is most difficult for "
"those of us who love America to accept: Our democracy has atrophied.  Of "
"course we have elections, and most of the time the courts allow those "
"elections to count. A relatively small number of people vote in those "
"elections. The cycle of these elections has become totally professionalized "
"and routinized. Most of us think this is democracy."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2304
msgid "Tocqueville, Alexis de"
msgstr ""

#.  f15 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2321
msgid ""
"See, for example, Alexis de Tocqueville, <citetitle>Democracy in "
"America</citetitle>, bk. 1, trans.  Henry Reeve (New York: Bantam Books, "
"2000), ch. 16."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2306
msgid ""
"But democracy has never just been about elections. Democracy means rule by "
"the people, but rule means something more than mere elections. In our "
"tradition, it also means control through reasoned discourse.  This was the "
"idea that captured the imagination of Alexis de Tocqueville, the "
"nineteenth-century French lawyer who wrote the most important account of "
"early <quote>Democracy in America.</quote> It wasn't popular elections that "
"fascinated him&mdash;it was the jury, an institution that gave ordinary "
"people the right to choose life or death for other citizens.  And most "
"fascinating for him was that the jury didn't just vote about the outcome "
"they would impose. They deliberated. Members argued about the "
"<quote>right</quote> result; they tried to persuade each other of the "
"<quote>right</quote> result, and in criminal cases at least, they had to "
"agree upon a unanimous result for the process to come to an end.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  f16 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2330
msgid ""
"Bruce Ackerman and James Fishkin, <quote>Deliberation Day,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Journal of Political Philosophy</citetitle> 10 (2) (2002): 129."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2326
msgid ""
"Yet even this institution flags in American life today. And in its place, "
"there is no systematic effort to enable citizen deliberation. Some are "
"pushing to create just such an institution.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"0\"/> And in some towns in New England, something close to deliberation "
"remains. But for most of us for most of the time, there is no time or place "
"for <quote>democratic deliberation</quote> to occur."
msgstr ""

#.  f17 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2345
msgid ""
"Cass Sunstein, <citetitle>Republic.com</citetitle> (Princeton: Princeton "
"University Press, 2001), 65&ndash;80, 175, 182, 183, 192."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2338
msgid ""
"More bizarrely, there is generally not even permission for it to occur.  We, "
"the most powerful democracy in the world, have developed a strong norm "
"against talking about politics. It's fine to talk about politics with people "
"you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you "
"disagree with. Political discourse becomes isolated, and isolated discourse "
"becomes more extreme.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> We say what "
"our friends want to hear, and hear very little beyond what our friends say."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 56 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2351
msgid ""
"Enter the blog. The blog's very architecture solves one part of this "
"problem. People post when they want to post, and people read when they want "
"to read. The most difficult time is synchronous time.  Technologies that "
"enable asynchronous communication, such as e-mail, increase the opportunity "
"for communication. Blogs allow for public discourse without the public ever "
"needing to gather in a single public place."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2362
msgid ""
"But beyond architecture, blogs also have solved the problem of "
"norms. There's no norm (yet) in blog space not to talk about politics.  "
"Indeed, the space is filled with political speech, on both the right and the "
"left. Some of the most popular sites are conservative or libertarian, but "
"there are many of all political stripes. And even blogs that are not "
"political cover political issues when the occasion merits."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2374
msgid "Dean, Howard"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2370
msgid ""
"The significance of these blogs is tiny now, though not so tiny. The name "
"Howard Dean may well have faded from the 2004 presidential race but for "
"blogs. Yet even if the number of readers is small, the reading is having an "
"effect.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2376
msgid "Thurmond, Strom"
msgstr ""

#.  f18 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2389
msgid ""
"Noah Shachtman, <quote>With Incessant Postings, a Pundit Stirs the "
"Pot,</quote> New York Times, 16 January 2003, G5."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2392
msgid "Lott, Trent"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2378
msgid ""
"One direct effect is on stories that had a different life cycle in the "
"mainstream media. The Trent Lott affair is an example. When Lott "
"<quote>misspoke</quote> at a party for Senator Strom Thurmond, essentially "
"praising Thurmond's segregationist policies, he calculated correctly that "
"this story would disappear from the mainstream press within forty-eight "
"hours. It did. But he didn't calculate its life cycle in blog space. The "
"bloggers kept researching the story. Over time, more and more instances of "
"the same <quote>misspeaking</quote> emerged. Finally, the story broke back "
"into the mainstream press. In the end, Lott was forced to resign as senate "
"majority leader.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2395
msgid ""
"This different cycle is possible because the same commercial pressures don't "
"exist with blogs as with other ventures. Television and newspapers are "
"commercial entities. They must work to keep attention.  If they lose "
"readers, they lose revenue. Like sharks, they must move on."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2402
msgid ""
"But bloggers don't have a similar constraint. They can obsess, they can "
"focus, they can get serious. If a particular blogger writes a particularly "
"interesting story, more and more people link to that story. And as the "
"number of links to a particular story increases, it rises in the ranks of "
"stories. People read what is popular; what is popular has been selected by a "
"very democratic process of peer-generated rankings."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2411
msgid "Winer, Dave"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 57 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2414
msgid ""
"There's a second way, as well, in which blogs have a different cycle from "
"the mainstream press. As Dave Winer, one of the fathers of this movement and "
"a software author for many decades, told me, another difference is the "
"absence of a financial <quote>conflict of interest.</quote> <quote>I think "
"you have to take the conflict of interest</quote> out of journalism, Winer "
"told me.  <quote>An amateur journalist simply doesn't have a conflict of "
"interest, or the conflict of interest is so easily disclosed that you know "
"you can sort of get it out of the way.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2424 freeculture.xml:2477
msgid "CNN"
msgstr ""

#.  f19 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2432
msgid "Telephone interview with David Winer, 16 April 2003."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2426
msgid ""
"These conflicts become more important as media becomes more concentrated "
"(more on this below). A concentrated media can hide more from the public "
"than an unconcentrated media can&mdash;as CNN admitted it did after the Iraq "
"war because it was afraid of the consequences to its own "
"employees.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> It also needs to sustain "
"a more coherent account. (In the middle of the Iraq war, I read a post on "
"the Internet from someone who was at that time listening to a satellite "
"uplink with a reporter in Iraq. The New York headquarters was telling the "
"reporter over and over that her account of the war was too bleak: She needed "
"to offer a more optimistic story. When she told New York that wasn't "
"warranted, they told her that <emphasis>they</emphasis> were writing "
"<quote>the story.</quote>)"
msgstr ""

#.  f20 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2450
msgid ""
"John Schwartz, <quote>Loss of the Shuttle: The Internet; A Wealth of "
"Information Online,</quote> <citetitle>New York Times</citetitle>, 2 "
"February 2003, A28; Staci D. Kramer, <quote>Shuttle Disaster Coverage Mixed, "
"but Strong Overall,</quote> Online Journalism Review, 2 February 2003, "
"available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #10</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2442
msgid ""
"Blog space gives amateurs a way to enter the "
"debate&mdash;<quote>amateur</quote> not in the sense of inexperienced, but "
"in the sense of an Olympic athlete, meaning not paid by anyone to give their "
"reports. It allows for a much broader range of input into a story, as "
"reporting on the Columbia disaster revealed, when hundreds from across the "
"southwest United States turned to the Internet to retell what they had "
"seen.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> And it drives readers to read "
"across the range of accounts and <quote>triangulate,</quote> as Winer puts "
"it, the truth. Blogs, Winer says, are <quote>communicating directly with our "
"constituency, and the middle man is out of it</quote>&mdash;with all the "
"benefits, and costs, that might entail."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2478
msgid "Olafson, Steve"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2469
msgid ""
"See Michael Falcone, <quote>Does an Editor's Pencil Ruin a Web Log?</quote> "
"<citetitle>New York Times</citetitle>, 29 September 2003, C4. (<quote>Not "
"all news organizations have been as accepting of employees who blog. Kevin "
"Sites, a CNN correspondent in Iraq who started a blog about his reporting of "
"the war on March 9, stopped posting 12 days later at his bosses' "
"request. Last year Steve Olafson, a <citetitle>Houston Chronicle</citetitle> "
"reporter, was fired for keeping a personal Web log, published under a "
"pseudonym, that dealt with some of the issues and people he was "
"covering.</quote>)  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 58 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2462
msgid ""
"Winer is optimistic about the future of journalism infected with "
"blogs. <quote>It's going to become an essential skill,</quote> Winer "
"predicts, for public figures and increasingly for private figures as "
"well. It's not clear that <quote>journalism</quote> is happy about "
"this&mdash;some journalists have been told to curtail their "
"blogging.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> But it is clear that we "
"are still in transition. <quote>A lot of what we are doing now is warm-up "
"exercises,</quote> Winer told me.  There is a lot that must mature before "
"this space has its mature effect.  And as the inclusion of content in this "
"space is the least infringing use of the Internet (meaning infringing on "
"copyright), Winer said, <quote>we will be the last thing that gets shut "
"down.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2490
msgid ""
"This speech affects democracy. Winer thinks that happens because <quote>you "
"don't have to work for somebody who controls, [for] a gatekeeper.</quote> "
"That is true. But it affects democracy in another way as well.  As more and "
"more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will "
"change the way people understand public issues. It is easy to be wrong and "
"misguided in your head. It is harder when the product of your mind can be "
"criticized by others. Of course, it is a rare human who admits that he has "
"been persuaded that he is wrong. But it is even rarer for a human to ignore "
"when he has been proven wrong.  The writing of ideas, arguments, and "
"criticism improves democracy.  Today there are probably a couple of million "
"blogs where such writing happens. When there are ten million, there will be "
"something extraordinary to report."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2506
msgid "Brown, John Seely"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2512
msgid ""
"John Seely Brown is the chief scientist of the Xerox Corporation.  His work, "
"as his Web site describes it, is <quote>human learning and &hellip; the "
"creation of knowledge ecologies for creating &hellip; innovation.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2517
msgid ""
"Brown thus looks at these technologies of digital creativity a bit "
"differently from the perspectives I've sketched so far. I'm sure he would be "
"excited about any technology that might improve democracy. But his real "
"excitement comes from how these technologies affect learning."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 59 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2524
msgid ""
"As Brown believes, we learn by tinkering. When <quote>a lot of us grew "
"up,</quote> he explains, that tinkering was done <quote>on motorcycle "
"engines, lawnmower engines, automobiles, radios, and so on.</quote> But "
"digital technologies enable a different kind of tinkering&mdash;with "
"abstract ideas though in concrete form. The kids at Just Think! not only "
"think about how a commercial portrays a politician; using digital "
"technology, they can take the commercial apart and manipulate it, tinker "
"with it to see how it does what it does. Digital technologies launch a kind "
"of bricolage, or <quote>free collage,</quote> as Brown calls it. Many get to "
"add to or transform the tinkering of many others."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2537
msgid ""
"The best large-scale example of this kind of tinkering so far is free "
"software or open-source software (FS/OSS). FS/OSS is software whose source "
"code is shared. Anyone can download the technology that makes a FS/OSS "
"program run. And anyone eager to learn how a particular bit of FS/OSS "
"technology works can tinker with the code."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2544
msgid ""
"This opportunity creates a <quote>completely new kind of learning "
"platform,</quote> as Brown describes. <quote>As soon as you start doing "
"that, you &hellip; unleash a free collage on the community, so that other "
"people can start looking at your code, tinkering with it, trying it out, "
"seeing if they can improve it.</quote> Each effort is a kind of "
"apprenticeship. <quote>Open source becomes a major apprenticeship "
"platform.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2552
msgid ""
"In this process, <quote>the concrete things you tinker with are abstract.  "
"They are code.</quote> Kids are <quote>shifting to the ability to tinker in "
"the abstract, and this tinkering is no longer an isolated activity that "
"you're doing in your garage. You are tinkering with a community "
"platform. &hellip; You are tinkering with other people's stuff. The more you "
"tinker the more you improve.</quote> The more you improve, the more you "
"learn."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2561
msgid ""
"This same thing happens with content, too. And it happens in the same "
"collaborative way when that content is part of the Web. As Brown puts it, "
"<quote>the Web [is] the first medium that truly honors multiple forms of "
"intelligence.</quote> Earlier technologies, such as the typewriter or word "
"processors, helped amplify text. But the Web amplifies much more than "
"text. <quote>The Web &hellip; says if you are musical, if you are artistic, "
"if you are visual, if you are interested in film &hellip; [then] there is a "
"lot you can start to do on this medium. [It] can now amplify and honor these "
"multiple forms of intelligence.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 60 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2574
msgid ""
"Brown is talking about what Elizabeth Daley, Stephanie Barish, and Just "
"Think! teach: that this tinkering with culture teaches as well as "
"creates. It develops talents differently, and it builds a different kind of "
"recognition."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2582
msgid ""
"Yet the freedom to tinker with these objects is not guaranteed.  Indeed, as "
"we'll see through the course of this book, that freedom is increasingly "
"highly contested. While there's no doubt that your father had the right to "
"tinker with the car engine, there's great doubt that your child will have "
"the right to tinker with the images she finds all around.  The law and, "
"increasingly, technology interfere with a freedom that technology, and "
"curiosity, would otherwise ensure."
msgstr ""

#.  f22 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2598
msgid ""
"See, for example, Edward Felten and Andrew Appel, <quote>Technological "
"Access Control Interferes with Noninfringing Scholarship,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Communications of the Association for Computer "
"Machinery</citetitle> 43 (2000): 9."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2591
msgid ""
"These restrictions have become the focus of researchers and scholars.  "
"Professor Ed Felten of Princeton (whom we'll see more of in chapter <xref "
"xrefstyle=\"select: labelnumber\" linkend=\"property-i\"/>)  has developed a "
"powerful argument in favor of the <quote>right to tinker</quote> as it "
"applies to computer science and to knowledge in general.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> But Brown's concern is earlier, or younger, or "
"more fundamental. It is about the learning that kids can do, or can't do, "
"because of the law."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2606
msgid ""
"<quote>This is where education in the twenty-first century is going,</quote> "
"Brown explains. We need to <quote>understand how kids who grow up digital "
"think and want to learn.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2611
msgid ""
"<quote>Yet,</quote> as Brown continued, and as the balance of this book will "
"evince, <quote>we are building a legal system that completely suppresses the "
"natural tendencies of today's digital kids. &hellip; We're building an "
"architecture that unleashes 60 percent of the brain [and] a legal system "
"that closes down that part of the brain.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2619
msgid ""
"We're building a technology that takes the magic of Kodak, mixes moving "
"images and sound, and adds a space for commentary and an opportunity to "
"spread that creativity everywhere. But we're building the law to close down "
"that technology."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2625
msgid ""
"<quote>No way to run a culture,</quote> as Brewster Kahle, whom we'll meet "
"in chapter <xref xrefstyle=\"select: labelnumber\" linkend=\"collectors\"/>, "
"quipped to me in a rare moment of despondence."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
#: freeculture.xml:2632
msgid "CHAPTER THREE: Catalogs"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2633
msgid "RPI"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2633 freeculture.xml:2635
msgid "Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2638
msgid ""
"In the fall of 2002, Jesse Jordan of Oceanside, New York, enrolled as a "
"freshman at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, New York.  His major "
"at RPI was information technology. Though he is not a programmer, in October "
"Jesse decided to begin to tinker with search engine technology that was "
"available on the RPI network."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2645
msgid ""
"RPI is one of America's foremost technological research institutions.  It "
"offers degrees in fields ranging from architecture and engineering to "
"information sciences. More than 65 percent of its five thousand "
"undergraduates finished in the top 10 percent of their high school "
"class. The school is thus a perfect mix of talent and experience to imagine "
"and then build, a generation for the network age."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2653
msgid ""
"RPI's computer network links students, faculty, and administration to one "
"another. It also links RPI to the Internet. Not everything available on the "
"RPI network is available on the Internet. But the network is designed to "
"enable students to get access to the Internet, as well as more intimate "
"access to other members of the RPI community."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 62 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2660
msgid ""
"Search engines are a measure of a network's intimacy. Google brought the "
"Internet much closer to all of us by fantastically improving the quality of "
"search on the network. Specialty search engines can do this even better. The "
"idea of <quote>intranet</quote> search engines, search engines that search "
"within the network of a particular institution, is to provide users of that "
"institution with better access to material from that institution.  "
"Businesses do this all the time, enabling employees to have access to "
"material that people outside the business can't get. Universities do it as "
"well."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2672
msgid ""
"These engines are enabled by the network technology itself.  Microsoft, for "
"example, has a network file system that makes it very easy for search "
"engines tuned to that network to query the system for information about the "
"publicly (within that network) available content.  Jesse's search engine was "
"built to take advantage of this technology. It used Microsoft's network file "
"system to build an index of all the files available within the RPI network."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2681
msgid ""
"Jesse's wasn't the first search engine built for the RPI network.  Indeed, "
"his engine was a simple modification of engines that others had built. His "
"single most important improvement over those engines was to fix a bug within "
"the Microsoft file-sharing system that could cause a user's computer to "
"crash. With the engines that existed before, if you tried to access a file "
"through a Windows browser that was on a computer that was off-line, your "
"computer could crash. Jesse modified the system a bit to fix that problem, "
"by adding a button that a user could click to see if the machine holding the "
"file was still on-line."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2693
msgid ""
"Jesse's engine went on-line in late October. Over the following six months, "
"he continued to tweak it to improve its functionality. By March, the system "
"was functioning quite well. Jesse had more than one million files in his "
"directory, including every type of content that might be on users' "
"computers."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 63 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2700
msgid ""
"Thus the index his search engine produced included pictures, which students "
"could use to put on their own Web sites; copies of notes or research; copies "
"of information pamphlets; movie clips that students might have created; "
"university brochures&mdash;basically anything that users of the RPI network "
"made available in a public folder of their computer."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2709
msgid ""
"But the index also included music files. In fact, one quarter of the files "
"that Jesse's search engine listed were music files. But that means, of "
"course, that three quarters were not, and&mdash;so that this point is "
"absolutely clear&mdash;Jesse did nothing to induce people to put music files "
"in their public folders. He did nothing to target the search engine to these "
"files. He was a kid tinkering with a Google-like technology at a university "
"where he was studying information science, and hence, tinkering was the "
"aim. Unlike Google, or Microsoft, for that matter, he made no money from "
"this tinkering; he was not connected to any business that would make any "
"money from this experiment. He was a kid tinkering with technology in an "
"environment where tinkering with technology was precisely what he was "
"supposed to do."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2724
msgid ""
"On April 3, 2003, Jesse was contacted by the dean of students at RPI. The "
"dean informed Jesse that the Recording Industry Association of America, the "
"RIAA, would be filing a lawsuit against him and three other students whom he "
"didn't even know, two of them at other universities.  A few hours later, "
"Jesse was served with papers from the suit.  As he read these papers and "
"watched the news reports about them, he was increasingly astonished."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2733
msgid ""
"<quote>It was absurd,</quote> he told me. <quote>I don't think I did "
"anything wrong. &hellip; I don't think there's anything wrong with the "
"search engine that I ran or &hellip; what I had done to it. I mean, I hadn't "
"modified it in any way that promoted or enhanced the work of pirates. I just "
"modified the search engine in a way that would make it easier to "
"use</quote>&mdash;again, a <emphasis>search engine</emphasis>, which Jesse "
"had not himself built, using the Windows filesharing system, which Jesse had "
"not himself built, to enable members of the RPI community to get access to "
"content, which Jesse had not himself created or posted, and the vast "
"majority of which had nothing to do with music."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2745
msgid "statutory damages"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 64 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2747
msgid ""
"But the RIAA branded Jesse a pirate. They claimed he operated a network and "
"had therefore <quote>willfully</quote> violated copyright laws. They "
"demanded that he pay them the damages for his wrong. For cases of "
"<quote>willful infringement,</quote> the Copyright Act specifies something "
"lawyers call <quote>statutory damages.</quote> These damages permit a "
"copyright owner to claim $150,000 per infringement. As the RIAA alleged more "
"than one hundred specific copyright infringements, they therefore demanded "
"that Jesse pay them at least $15,000,000."
msgstr ""

#.  f1 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2770
msgid ""
"Tim Goral, <quote>Recording Industry Goes After Campus P-2-P Networks: Suit "
"Alleges $97.8 Billion in Damages,</quote> <citetitle>Professional Media "
"Group LCC</citetitle> 6 (2003): 5, available at 2003 WL 55179443."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2758
msgid ""
"Similar lawsuits were brought against three other students: one other "
"student at RPI, one at Michigan Technical University, and one at "
"Princeton. Their situations were similar to Jesse's. Though each case was "
"different in detail, the bottom line in each was exactly the same: huge "
"demands for <quote>damages</quote> that the RIAA claimed it was entitled "
"to.  If you added up the claims, these four lawsuits were asking courts in "
"the United States to award the plaintiffs close to $100 "
"<emphasis>billion</emphasis>&mdash;six times the <emphasis>total</emphasis> "
"profit of the film industry in 2001.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2777
msgid ""
"Jesse called his parents. They were supportive but a bit frightened.  An "
"uncle was a lawyer. He began negotiations with the RIAA. They demanded to "
"know how much money Jesse had. Jesse had saved $12,000 from summer jobs and "
"other employment. They demanded $12,000 to dismiss the case."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2783
msgid "Oppenheimer, Matt"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2785
msgid ""
"The RIAA wanted Jesse to admit to doing something wrong. He refused. They "
"wanted him to agree to an injunction that would essentially make it "
"impossible for him to work in many fields of technology for the rest of his "
"life. He refused. They made him understand that this process of being sued "
"was not going to be pleasant. (As Jesse's father recounted to me, the chief "
"lawyer on the case, Matt Oppenheimer, told Jesse, <quote>You don't want to "
"pay another visit to a dentist like me.</quote>) And throughout, the RIAA "
"insisted it would not settle the case until it took every penny Jesse had "
"saved."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 65 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2796
msgid ""
"Jesse's family was outraged at these claims. They wanted to fight.  But "
"Jesse's uncle worked to educate the family about the nature of the American "
"legal system. Jesse could fight the RIAA. He might even win. But the cost of "
"fighting a lawsuit like this, Jesse was told, would be at least $250,000. If "
"he won, he would not recover that money. If he won, he would have a piece of "
"paper saying he had won, and a piece of paper saying he and his family were "
"bankrupt."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2806
msgid ""
"So Jesse faced a mafia-like choice: $250,000 and a chance at winning, or "
"$12,000 and a settlement."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2810 freeculture.xml:3165 freeculture.xml:4086 freeculture.xml:5186 freeculture.xml:5237 freeculture.xml:9607 freeculture.xml:9708 freeculture.xml:9882 freeculture.xml:14414 freeculture.xml:14482
msgid "artists"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><indexterm><secondary>
#: freeculture.xml:2811 freeculture.xml:3166 freeculture.xml:4087 freeculture.xml:9608 freeculture.xml:9709 freeculture.xml:9883 freeculture.xml:14415 freeculture.xml:14483
msgid "recording industry payments to"
msgstr ""

#.  f2 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2822
msgid ""
"Occupational Employment Survey, U.S. Dept. of Labor (2001)  "
"(27&ndash;2042&mdash;Musicians and Singers). See also National Endowment for "
"the Arts, <citetitle>More Than One in a Blue Moon</citetitle> (2000)."
msgstr ""

#.  f3 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2830
msgid ""
"Douglas Lichtman makes a related point in <quote>KaZaA and "
"Punishment,</quote> <citetitle>Wall Street Journal</citetitle>, 10 September "
"2003, A24."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2814
msgid ""
"The recording industry insists this is a matter of law and morality.  Let's "
"put the law aside for a moment and think about the morality.  Where is the "
"morality in a lawsuit like this? What is the virtue in scapegoatism? The "
"RIAA is an extraordinarily powerful lobby. The president of the RIAA is "
"reported to make more than $1 million a year.  Artists, on the other hand, "
"are not well paid. The average recording artist makes $45,900.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> There are plenty of ways for the RIAA to affect "
"and direct policy. So where is the morality in taking money from a student "
"for running a search engine?<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2835
msgid ""
"On June 23, Jesse wired his savings to the lawyer working for the RIAA. The "
"case against him was then dismissed. And with this, this kid who had "
"tinkered a computer into a $15 million lawsuit became an activist:"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2842
msgid ""
"I was definitely not an activist [before]. I never really meant to be an "
"activist. &hellip; [But] I've been pushed into this. In no way did I ever "
"foresee anything like this, but I think it's just completely absurd what the "
"RIAA has done."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2849
msgid ""
"Jesse's parents betray a certain pride in their reluctant activist. As his "
"father told me, Jesse <quote>considers himself very conservative, and so do "
"I. &hellip; He's not a tree hugger. &hellip; I think it's bizarre that they "
"would pick on him. But he wants to let people know that they're sending the "
"wrong message. And he wants to correct the record.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
#: freeculture.xml:2858
msgid "CHAPTER FOUR: <quote>Pirates</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2860
msgid ""
"If <quote>piracy</quote> means using the creative property of others without "
"their permission&mdash;if <quote>if value, then right</quote> is "
"true&mdash;then the history of the content industry is a history of "
"piracy. Every important sector of <quote>big media</quote> today&mdash;film, "
"records, radio, and cable TV&mdash;was born of a kind of piracy so "
"defined. The consistent story is how last generation's pirates join this "
"generation's country club&mdash;until now."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:2868
msgid "Film"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2872
msgid ""
"I am grateful to Peter DiMauro for pointing me to this extraordinary "
"history. See also Siva Vaidhyanathan, <citetitle>Copyrights and "
"Copywrongs</citetitle>, 87&ndash;93, which details Edison's "
"<quote>adventures</quote> with copyright and patent.  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 67 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2870
msgid ""
"The film industry of Hollywood was built by fleeing pirates.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Creators and directors migrated from the East "
"Coast to California in the early twentieth century in part to escape "
"controls that patents granted the inventor of filmmaking, Thomas "
"Edison. These controls were exercised through a monopoly "
"<quote>trust,</quote> the Motion Pictures Patents Company, and were based on "
"Thomas Edison's creative property&mdash;patents.  Edison formed the MPPC to "
"exercise the rights this creative property gave him, and the MPPC was "
"serious about the control it demanded."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2888
msgid "As one commentator tells one part of the story,"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2892
msgid ""
"A January 1909 deadline was set for all companies to comply with the "
"license. By February, unlicensed outlaws, who referred to themselves as "
"independents protested the trust and carried on business without submitting "
"to the Edison monopoly. In the summer of 1909 the independent movement was "
"in full-swing, with producers and theater owners using illegal equipment and "
"imported film stock to create their own underground market."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2923 freeculture.xml:4299 freeculture.xml:9483 freeculture.xml:9601
msgid "broadcast flag"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2912
msgid ""
"J. A. Aberdeen, <citetitle>Hollywood Renegades: The Society of Independent "
"Motion Picture Producers</citetitle> (Cobblestone Entertainment, 2000) and "
"expanded texts posted at <quote>The Edison Movie Monopoly: The Motion "
"Picture Patents Company vs. the Independent Outlaws,</quote> available at "
"<ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #11</ulink>. For a "
"discussion of the economic motive behind both these limits and the limits "
"imposed by Victor on phonographs, see Randal C. Picker, <quote>From Edison "
"to the Broadcast Flag: Mechanisms of Consent and Refusal and the "
"Propertization of Copyright</quote> (September 2002), University of Chicago "
"Law School, James M. Olin Program in Law and Economics, Working Paper "
"No. 159.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2925
msgid "Fox, William"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2926
msgid "General Film Company"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2927 freeculture.xml:3185 freeculture.xml:4300 freeculture.xml:9752
msgid "Picker, Randal C."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2901
msgid ""
"With the country experiencing a tremendous expansion in the number of "
"nickelodeons, the Patents Company reacted to the independent movement by "
"forming a strong-arm subsidiary known as the General Film Company to block "
"the entry of non-licensed independents. With coercive tactics that have "
"become legendary, General Film confiscated unlicensed equipment, "
"discontinued product supply to theaters which showed unlicensed films, and "
"effectively monopolized distribution with the acquisition of all U.S. film "
"exchanges, except for the one owned by the independent William Fox who "
"defied the Trust even after his license was revoked.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/> "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"2\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"3\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  f3 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2937
msgid ""
"Marc Wanamaker, <quote>The First Studios,</quote> <citetitle>The Silents "
"Majority</citetitle>, archived at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #12</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2931
msgid ""
"The Napsters of those days, the <quote>independents,</quote> were companies "
"like Fox. And no less than today, these independents were vigorously "
"resisted.  <quote>Shooting was disrupted by machinery stolen, and "
"`accidents' resulting in loss of negatives, equipment, buildings and "
"sometimes life and limb frequently occurred.</quote><placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> That led the independents to flee the East "
"Coast. California was remote enough from Edison's reach that filmmakers "
"there could pirate his inventions without fear of the law. And the leaders "
"of Hollywood filmmaking, Fox most prominently, did just that."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 68 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2947
msgid ""
"Of course, California grew quickly, and the effective enforcement of federal "
"law eventually spread west. But because patents grant the patent holder a "
"truly <quote>limited</quote> monopoly (just seventeen years at that time), "
"by the time enough federal marshals appeared, the patents had expired. A new "
"industry had been born, in part from the piracy of Edison's creative "
"property."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:2958
msgid "Recorded Music"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2960
msgid ""
"The record industry was born of another kind of piracy, though to see how "
"requires a bit of detail about the way the law regulates music."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2964
msgid "Fourneaux, Henri"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2966
msgid "Russel, Phil"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2968
msgid ""
"At the time that Edison and Henri Fourneaux invented machines for "
"reproducing music (Edison the phonograph, Fourneaux the player piano), the "
"law gave composers the exclusive right to control copies of their music and "
"the exclusive right to control public performances of their music. In other "
"words, in 1900, if I wanted a copy of Phil Russel's 1899 hit <quote>Happy "
"Mose,</quote> the law said I would have to pay for the right to get a copy "
"of the musical score, and I would also have to pay for the right to perform "
"it publicly."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:2977 freeculture.xml:3126
msgid "Beatles"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2979
msgid ""
"But what if I wanted to record <quote>Happy Mose,</quote> using Edison's "
"phonograph or Fourneaux's player piano? Here the law stumbled. It was clear "
"enough that I would have to buy any copy of the musical score that I "
"performed in making this recording. And it was clear enough that I would "
"have to pay for any public performance of the work I was recording.  But it "
"wasn't totally clear that I would have to pay for a <quote>public "
"performance</quote> if I recorded the song in my own house (even today, you "
"don't owe the Beatles anything if you sing their songs in the shower), or if "
"I recorded the song from memory (copies in your brain are "
"not&mdash;yet&mdash; regulated by copyright law). So if I simply sang the "
"song into a recording device in the privacy of my own home, it wasn't clear "
"that I owed the composer anything. And more importantly, it wasn't clear "
"whether I owed the composer anything if I then made copies of those "
"recordings.  Because of this gap in the law, then, I could effectively "
"pirate someone else's song without paying its composer anything."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3002 freeculture.xml:3019
msgid "Kittredge, Alfred"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:2998
msgid ""
"The composers (and publishers) were none too happy about this capacity to "
"pirate. As South Dakota senator Alfred Kittredge put it, <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3013
msgid ""
"To Amend and Consolidate the Acts Respecting Copyright: Hearings on S. 6330 "
"and H.R. 19853 Before the ( Joint) Committees on Patents, 59th Cong. 59, 1st "
"sess. (1906) (statement of Senator Alfred B. Kittredge, of South Dakota, "
"chairman), reprinted in <citetitle>Legislative History of the Copyright "
"Act</citetitle>, E. Fulton Brylawski and Abe Goldman, eds. (South "
"Hackensack, N.J.: Rothman Reprints, 1976).  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3006
msgid ""
"Imagine the injustice of the thing. A composer writes a song or an opera. A "
"publisher buys at great expense the rights to the same and copyrights "
"it. Along come the phonographic companies and companies who cut music rolls "
"and deliberately steal the work of the brain of the composer and publisher "
"without any regard for [their] rights.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3023
msgid "Sousa, John Philip"
msgstr ""

#.  f5 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3029
msgid ""
"To Amend and Consolidate the Acts Respecting Copyright, 223 (statement of "
"Nathan Burkan, attorney for the Music Publishers Association)."
msgstr ""

#.  f6 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3035
msgid ""
"To Amend and Consolidate the Acts Respecting Copyright, 226 (statement of "
"Nathan Burkan, attorney for the Music Publishers Association)."
msgstr ""

#.  f7 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3042
msgid ""
"To Amend and Consolidate the Acts Respecting Copyright, 23 (statement of "
"John Philip Sousa, composer)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3025
msgid ""
"The innovators who developed the technology to record other people's works "
"were <quote>sponging upon the toil, the work, the talent, and genius of "
"American composers,</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> and the "
"<quote>music publishing industry</quote> was thereby <quote>at the complete "
"mercy of this one pirate.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> "
"As John Philip Sousa put it, in as direct a way as possible, <quote>When "
"they make money out of my pieces, I want a share of it.</quote><placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"2\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  f8 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3055
msgid ""
"To Amend and Consolidate the Acts Respecting Copyright, 283&ndash;84 "
"(statement of Albert Walker, representative of the Auto-Music Perforating "
"Company of New York)."
msgstr ""

#.  f9 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3066
msgid ""
"To Amend and Consolidate the Acts Respecting Copyright, 376 (prepared "
"memorandum of Philip Mauro, general patent counsel of the American "
"Graphophone Company Association)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3070
msgid "American Graphophone Company"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3047
msgid ""
"These arguments have familiar echoes in the wars of our day. So, too, do the "
"arguments on the other side. The innovators who developed the player piano "
"argued that <quote>it is perfectly demonstrable that the introduction of "
"automatic music players has not deprived any composer of anything he had "
"before their introduction.</quote> Rather, the machines increased the sales "
"of sheet music.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> In any case, the "
"innovators argued, the job of Congress was <quote>to consider first the "
"interest of [the public], whom they represent, and whose servants they "
"are.</quote> <quote>All talk about `theft,'</quote> the general counsel of "
"the American Graphophone Company wrote, <quote>is the merest claptrap, for "
"there exists no property in ideas musical, literary or artistic, except as "
"defined by statute.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"2\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 70 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3073
msgid ""
"The law soon resolved this battle in favor of the composer "
"<emphasis>and</emphasis> the recording artist. Congress amended the law to "
"make sure that composers would be paid for the <quote>mechanical "
"reproductions</quote> of their music. But rather than simply granting the "
"composer complete control over the right to make mechanical reproductions, "
"Congress gave recording artists a right to record the music, at a price set "
"by Congress, once the composer allowed it to be recorded once. This is the "
"part of copyright law that makes cover songs possible. Once a composer "
"authorizes a recording of his song, others are free to record the same song, "
"so long as they pay the original composer a fee set by the law."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3088
msgid ""
"American law ordinarily calls this a <quote>compulsory license,</quote> but "
"I will refer to it as a <quote>statutory license.</quote> A statutory "
"license is a license whose key terms are set by law. After Congress's "
"amendment of the Copyright Act in 1909, record companies were free to "
"distribute copies of recordings so long as they paid the composer (or "
"copyright holder)  the fee set by the statute."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3103 freeculture.xml:14114
msgid "Grisham, John"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3096
msgid ""
"This is an exception within the law of copyright. When John Grisham writes a "
"novel, a publisher is free to publish that novel only if Grisham gives the "
"publisher permission. Grisham, in turn, is free to charge whatever he wants "
"for that permission. The price to publish Grisham is thus set by Grisham, "
"and copyright law ordinarily says you have no permission to use Grisham's "
"work except with permission of Grisham.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  f10 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3120
msgid ""
"Copyright Law Revision: Hearings on S. 2499, S. 2900, H.R. 243, and "
"H.R. 11794 Before the ( Joint) Committee on Patents, 60th Cong., 1st sess., "
"217 (1908) (statement of Senator Reed Smoot, chairman), reprinted in "
"<citetitle>Legislative History of the 1909 Copyright Act</citetitle>, "
"E. Fulton Brylawski and Abe Goldman, eds. (South Hackensack, N.J.: Rothman "
"Reprints, 1976)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3106
msgid ""
"But the law governing recordings gives recording artists less. And thus, in "
"effect, the law <emphasis>subsidizes</emphasis> the recording industry "
"through a kind of piracy&mdash;by giving recording artists a weaker right "
"than it otherwise gives creative authors. The Beatles have less control over "
"their creative work than Grisham does. And the beneficiaries of this less "
"control are the recording industry and the public. The recording industry "
"gets something of value for less than it otherwise would pay; the public "
"gets access to a much wider range of musical creativity. Indeed, Congress "
"was quite explicit about its reasons for granting this right. Its fear was "
"the monopoly power of rights holders, and that that power would stifle "
"follow-on creativity.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3129
msgid ""
"While the recording industry has been quite coy about this recently, "
"historically it has been quite a supporter of the statutory license for "
"records. As a 1967 report from the House Committee on the Judiciary relates,"
msgstr ""

#.  f11 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3151
msgid ""
"Copyright Law Revision: Report to Accompany H.R. 2512, House Committee on "
"the Judiciary, 90th Cong., 1st sess., House Document no. 83, (8 March "
"1967). I am grateful to Glenn Brown for drawing my attention to this report."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3136
msgid ""
"the record producers argued vigorously that the compulsory license system "
"must be retained. They asserted that the record industry is a "
"half-billion-dollar business of great economic importance in the United "
"States and throughout the world; records today are the principal means of "
"disseminating music, and this creates special problems, since performers "
"need unhampered access to musical material on nondiscriminatory "
"terms. Historically, the record producers pointed out, there were no "
"recording rights before 1909 and the 1909 statute adopted the compulsory "
"license as a deliberate anti-monopoly condition on the grant of these "
"rights. They argue that the result has been an outpouring of recorded music, "
"with the public being given lower prices, improved quality, and a greater "
"choice.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3158
msgid ""
"By limiting the rights musicians have, by partially pirating their creative "
"work, the record producers, and the public, benefit."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
#: freeculture.xml:3163 freeculture.xml:4264
msgid "Radio"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3169
msgid "Radio was also born of piracy."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3184
msgid "Hand, Learned"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3175
msgid ""
"See 17 <citetitle>United States Code</citetitle>, sections 106 and 110. At "
"the beginning, record companies printed <quote>Not Licensed for Radio "
"Broadcast</quote> and other messages purporting to restrict the ability to "
"play a record on a radio station.  Judge Learned Hand rejected the argument "
"that a warning attached to a record might restrict the rights of the radio "
"station. See <citetitle>RCA Manufacturing "
"Co</citetitle>. v. <citetitle>Whiteman</citetitle>, 114 F. 2d 86 (2nd "
"Cir. 1940). See also Randal C.  Picker, <quote>From Edison to the Broadcast "
"Flag: Mechanisms of Consent and Refusal and the Propertization of "
"Copyright,</quote> <citetitle>University of Chicago Law Review</citetitle> "
"70 (2003): 281.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3172
msgid ""
"When a radio station plays a record on the air, that constitutes a "
"<quote>public performance</quote> of the composer's work.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> As I described above, the law gives the "
"composer (or copyright holder)  an exclusive right to public performances of "
"his work. The radio station thus owes the composer money for that "
"performance."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3202 freeculture.xml:8827 freeculture.xml:9288 freeculture.xml:12252
msgid "Lovett, Lyle"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 72 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3192
msgid ""
"But when the radio station plays a record, it is not only performing a copy "
"of the <emphasis>composer's</emphasis> work. The radio station is also "
"performing a copy of the <emphasis>recording artist's</emphasis> work. It's "
"one thing to have <quote>Happy Birthday</quote> sung on the radio by the "
"local children's choir; it's quite another to have it sung by the Rolling "
"Stones or Lyle Lovett. The recording artist is adding to the value of the "
"composition performed on the radio station.  And if the law were perfectly "
"consistent, the radio station would have to pay the recording artist for his "
"work, just as it pays the composer of the music for his work.  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3207
msgid ""
"But it doesn't. Under the law governing radio performances, the radio "
"station does not have to pay the recording artist. The radio station need "
"only pay the composer. The radio station thus gets a bit of something for "
"nothing. It gets to perform the recording artist's work for free, even if it "
"must pay the composer something for the privilege of playing the song."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3215 freeculture.xml:3722 freeculture.xml:6132
msgid "Madonna"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3218
msgid ""
"This difference can be huge. Imagine you compose a piece of music.  Imagine "
"it is your first. You own the exclusive right to authorize public "
"performances of that music. So if Madonna wants to sing your song in public, "
"she has to get your permission."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3224
msgid ""
"Imagine she does sing your song, and imagine she likes it a lot. She then "
"decides to make a recording of your song, and it becomes a top hit. Under "
"our law, every time a radio station plays your song, you get some money. But "
"Madonna gets nothing, save the indirect effect on the sale of her CDs. The "
"public performance of her recording is not a <quote>protected</quote> "
"right. The radio station thus gets to <emphasis>pirate</emphasis> the value "
"of Madonna's work without paying her anything."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3235
msgid ""
"No doubt, one might argue that, on balance, the recording artists "
"benefit. On average, the promotion they get is worth more than the "
"performance rights they give up. Maybe. But even if so, the law ordinarily "
"gives the creator the right to make this choice. By making the choice for "
"him or her, the law gives the radio station the right to take something for "
"nothing."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
#: freeculture.xml:3245 freeculture.xml:4270
msgid "Cable TV"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3248
msgid "Cable TV was also born of a kind of piracy."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 73 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3251
msgid ""
"When cable entrepreneurs first started wiring communities with cable "
"television in 1948, most refused to pay broadcasters for the content that "
"they echoed to their customers. Even when the cable companies started "
"selling access to television broadcasts, they refused to pay for what they "
"sold. Cable companies were thus Napsterizing broadcasters' content, but more "
"egregiously than anything Napster ever did&mdash; Napster never charged for "
"the content it enabled others to give away."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3261
msgid "Anello, Douglas"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3262
msgid "Burdick, Quentin"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3263 freeculture.xml:3274
msgid "Hyde, Rosel H."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3269
msgid ""
"Copyright Law Revision&mdash;CATV: Hearing on S. 1006 Before the "
"Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights of the Senate Committee "
"on the Judiciary, 89th Cong., 2nd sess., 78 (1966)  (statement of Rosel "
"H. Hyde, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission).  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  f14 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3281
msgid ""
"Copyright Law Revision&mdash;CATV, 116 (statement of Douglas A. Anello, "
"general counsel of the National Association of Broadcasters)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3265
msgid ""
"Broadcasters and copyright owners were quick to attack this theft.  Rosel "
"Hyde, chairman of the FCC, viewed the practice as a kind of <quote>unfair "
"and potentially destructive competition.</quote><placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> There may have been a <quote>public "
"interest</quote> in spreading the reach of cable TV, but as Douglas Anello, "
"general counsel to the National Association of Broadcasters, asked Senator "
"Quentin Burdick during testimony, <quote>Does public interest dictate that "
"you use somebody else's property?</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"1\"/> As another broadcaster put it,"
msgstr ""

#.  f15 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3292
msgid ""
"Copyright Law Revision&mdash;CATV, 126 (statement of Ernest W. Jennes, "
"general counsel of the Association of Maximum Service Telecasters, Inc.)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3288
msgid ""
"The extraordinary thing about the CATV business is that it is the only "
"business I know of where the product that is being sold is not paid "
"for.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3298
msgid "Again, the demand of the copyright holders seemed reasonable enough:"
msgstr ""

#.  f16 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3307
msgid ""
"Copyright Law Revision&mdash;CATV, 169 (joint statement of Arthur B.  Krim, "
"president of United Artists Corp., and John Sinn, president of United "
"Artists Television, Inc.)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3302
msgid ""
"All we are asking for is a very simple thing, that people who now take our "
"property for nothing pay for it. We are trying to stop piracy and I don't "
"think there is any lesser word to describe it. I think there are harsher "
"words which would fit it.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3313 freeculture.xml:3321
msgid "Heston, Charlton"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3319
msgid ""
"Copyright Law Revision&mdash;CATV, 209 (statement of Charlton Heston, "
"president of the Screen Actors Guild).  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3315
msgid ""
"These were <quote>free-ride[rs],</quote> Screen Actor's Guild president "
"Charlton Heston said, who were <quote>depriving actors of "
"compensation.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3326
msgid ""
"But again, there was another side to the debate. As Assistant Attorney "
"General Edwin Zimmerman put it,"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3342 freeculture.xml:3344
msgid "Zimmerman, Edwin"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3340
msgid ""
"Copyright Law Revision&mdash;CATV, 216 (statement of Edwin M.  Zimmerman, "
"acting assistant attorney general).  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3331
msgid ""
"Our point here is that unlike the problem of whether you have any copyright "
"protection at all, the problem here is whether copyright holders who are "
"already compensated, who already have a monopoly, should be permitted to "
"extend that monopoly. &hellip; The question here is how much compensation "
"they should have and how far back they should carry their right to "
"compensation.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3348
msgid ""
"Copyright owners took the cable companies to court. Twice the Supreme Court "
"held that the cable companies owed the copyright owners nothing."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3352
msgid ""
"It took Congress almost thirty years before it resolved the question of "
"whether cable companies had to pay for the content they "
"<quote>pirated.</quote> In the end, Congress resolved this question in the "
"same way that it resolved the question about record players and player "
"pianos. Yes, cable companies would have to pay for the content that they "
"broadcast; but the price they would have to pay was not set by the copyright "
"owner.  The price was set by law, so that the broadcasters couldn't exercise "
"veto power over the emerging technologies of cable. Cable companies thus "
"built their empire in part upon a <quote>piracy</quote> of the value created "
"by broadcasters' content."
msgstr ""

#.  f19 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3369
msgid ""
"See, for example, National Music Publisher's Association, <citetitle>The "
"Engine of Free Expression: Copyright on the Internet&mdash;The Myth of Free "
"Information</citetitle>, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #13</ulink>. <quote>The threat of "
"piracy&mdash;the use of someone else's creative work without permission or "
"compensation&mdash;has grown with the Internet.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3364
msgid ""
"These separate stories sing a common theme. If <quote>piracy</quote> means "
"using value from someone else's creative property without permission from "
"that creator&mdash;as it is increasingly described today<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> &mdash; then <emphasis>every</emphasis> "
"industry affected by copyright today is the product and beneficiary of a "
"certain kind of piracy. Film, records, radio, cable TV. &hellip; The list is "
"long and could well be expanded. Every generation welcomes the pirates from "
"the last. Every generation&mdash;until now."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
#: freeculture.xml:3386
msgid "CHAPTER FIVE: <quote>Piracy</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3388
msgid ""
"There is piracy of copyrighted material. Lots of it. This piracy comes in "
"many forms. The most significant is commercial piracy, the unauthorized "
"taking of other people's content within a commercial context. Despite the "
"many justifications that are offered in its defense, this taking is "
"wrong. No one should condone it, and the law should stop it."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 76 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3396
msgid ""
"But as well as copy-shop piracy, there is another kind of "
"<quote>taking</quote> that is more directly related to the Internet. That "
"taking, too, seems wrong to many, and it is wrong much of the time. Before "
"we paint this taking <quote>piracy,</quote> however, we should understand "
"its nature a bit more.  For the harm of this taking is significantly more "
"ambiguous than outright copying, and the law should account for that "
"ambiguity, as it has so often done in the past."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:3406
msgid "Piracy I"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3407 freeculture.xml:3486 freeculture.xml:3535 freeculture.xml:14514
msgid "Asia, commercial piracy in"
msgstr ""

#.  f1 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3415
msgid ""
"See IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), "
"<citetitle>The Recording Industry Commercial Piracy Report 2003</citetitle>, "
"July 2003, available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link "
"#14</ulink>. See also Ben Hunt, <quote>Companies Warned on Music Piracy "
"Risk,</quote> <citetitle>Financial Times</citetitle>, 14 February 2003, 11."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3409
msgid ""
"All across the world, but especially in Asia and Eastern Europe, there are "
"businesses that do nothing but take others people's copyrighted content, "
"copy it, and sell it&mdash;all without the permission of a copyright "
"owner. The recording industry estimates that it loses about $4.6 billion "
"every year to physical piracy<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> (that "
"works out to one in three CDs sold worldwide). The MPAA estimates that it "
"loses $3 billion annually worldwide to piracy."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3425
msgid ""
"This is piracy plain and simple. Nothing in the argument of this book, nor "
"in the argument that most people make when talking about the subject of this "
"book, should draw into doubt this simple point: This piracy is wrong."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3431
msgid ""
"Which is not to say that excuses and justifications couldn't be made for "
"it. We could, for example, remind ourselves that for the first one hundred "
"years of the American Republic, America did not honor foreign copyrights. We "
"were born, in this sense, a pirate nation. It might therefore seem "
"hypocritical for us to insist so strongly that other developing nations "
"treat as wrong what we, for the first hundred years of our existence, "
"treated as right."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3440
msgid ""
"That excuse isn't terribly strong. Technically, our law did not ban the "
"taking of foreign works. It explicitly limited itself to American "
"works. Thus the American publishers who published foreign works without the "
"permission of foreign authors were not violating any rule.  The copy shops "
"in Asia, by contrast, are violating Asian law. Asian law does protect "
"foreign copyrights, and the actions of the copy shops violate that law. So "
"the wrong of piracy that they engage in is not just a moral wrong, but a "
"legal wrong, and not just an internationally legal wrong, but a locally "
"legal wrong as well."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3451
msgid ""
"True, these local rules have, in effect, been imposed upon these "
"countries. No country can be part of the world economy and choose <beginpage "
"pagenum=\"77\"/> not to protect copyright internationally. We may have been "
"born a pirate nation, but we will not allow any other nation to have a "
"similar childhood."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3479
msgid "agricultural patents"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3480 freeculture.xml:12541 freeculture.xml:12985 freeculture.xml:12992
msgid "Drahos, Peter"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3464
msgid ""
"See Peter Drahos with John Braithwaite, Information Feudalism: "
"<citetitle>Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?</citetitle> (New York: The New "
"Press, 2003), 10&ndash;13, 209.  The Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual "
"Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement obligates member nations to create "
"administrative and enforcement mechanisms for intellectual property rights, "
"a costly proposition for developing countries. Additionally, patent rights "
"may lead to higher prices for staple industries such as agriculture. Critics "
"of TRIPS question the disparity between burdens imposed upon developing "
"countries and benefits conferred to industrialized nations. TRIPS does "
"permit governments to use patents for public, noncommercial uses without "
"first obtaining the patent holder's permission. Developing nations may be "
"able to use this to gain the benefits of foreign patents at lower "
"prices. This is a promising strategy for developing nations within the TRIPS "
"framework.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3459
msgid ""
"If a country is to be treated as a sovereign, however, then its laws are its "
"laws regardless of their source. The international law under which these "
"nations live gives them some opportunities to escape the burden of "
"intellectual property law.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> In my "
"view, more developing nations should take advantage of that opportunity, but "
"when they don't, then their laws should be respected. And under the laws of "
"these nations, this piracy is wrong."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3501 freeculture.xml:3769 freeculture.xml:14658
msgid "Liebowitz, Stan"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3494
msgid ""
"For an analysis of the economic impact of copying technology, see Stan "
"Liebowitz, <citetitle>Rethinking the Network Economy</citetitle> (New York: "
"Amacom, 2002), 144&ndash;90. <quote>In some instances &hellip; the impact of "
"piracy on the copyright holder's ability to appropriate the value of the "
"work will be negligible. One obvious instance is the case where the "
"individual engaging in pirating would not have purchased an original even if "
"pirating were not an option.</quote> Ibid., 149.  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3488
msgid ""
"Alternatively, we could try to excuse this piracy by noting that in any "
"case, it does no harm to the industry. The Chinese who get access to "
"American CDs at 50 cents a copy are not people who would have bought those "
"American CDs at $15 a copy. So no one really has any less money than they "
"otherwise would have had.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3505
msgid ""
"This is often true (though I have friends who have purchased many thousands "
"of pirated DVDs who certainly have enough money to pay for the content they "
"have taken), and it does mitigate to some degree the harm caused by such "
"taking. Extremists in this debate love to say, <quote>You wouldn't go into "
"Barnes &amp; Noble and take a book off of the shelf without paying; why "
"should it be any different with on-line music?</quote> The difference is, of "
"course, that when you take a book from Barnes &amp; Noble, it has one less "
"book to sell. By contrast, when you take an MP3 from a computer network, "
"there is not one less CD that can be sold.  The physics of piracy of the "
"intangible are different from the physics of piracy of the tangible."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 78 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3518
msgid ""
"This argument is still very weak. However, although copyright is a property "
"right of a very special sort, it <emphasis>is</emphasis> a property "
"right. Like all property rights, the copyright gives the owner the right to "
"decide the terms under which content is shared. If the copyright owner "
"doesn't want to sell, she doesn't have to. There are exceptions: important "
"statutory licenses that apply to copyrighted content regardless of the wish "
"of the copyright owner. Those licenses give people the right to "
"<quote>take</quote> copyrighted content whether or not the copyright owner "
"wants to sell. But where the law does not give people the right to take "
"content, it is wrong to take that content even if the wrong does no harm. If "
"we have a property system, and that system is properly balanced to the "
"technology of a time, then it is wrong to take property without the "
"permission of a property owner. That is exactly what <quote>property</quote> "
"means."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3548 freeculture.xml:3576 freeculture.xml:11373 freeculture.xml:12866 freeculture.xml:13421
msgid "GNU/Linux operating system"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3549 freeculture.xml:3579 freeculture.xml:11375 freeculture.xml:12867 freeculture.xml:13422
msgid "Linux operating system"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3551
msgid "Microsoft"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><secondary>
#: freeculture.xml:3552
msgid "Windows operating system of"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3554
msgid "Windows"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3537
msgid ""
"Finally, we could try to excuse this piracy with the argument that the "
"piracy actually helps the copyright owner. When the Chinese "
"<quote>steal</quote> Windows, that makes the Chinese dependent on "
"Microsoft.  Microsoft loses the value of the software that was taken. But it "
"gains users who are used to life in the Microsoft world. Over time, as the "
"nation grows more wealthy, more and more people will buy software rather "
"than steal it. And hence over time, because that buying will benefit "
"Microsoft, Microsoft benefits from the piracy. If instead of pirating "
"Microsoft Windows, the Chinese used the free GNU/Linux operating system, "
"then these Chinese users would not eventually be buying Microsoft.  Without "
"piracy, then, Microsoft would lose.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/> <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"2\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"3\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3557
msgid ""
"This argument, too, is somewhat true. The addiction strategy is a good "
"one. Many businesses practice it. Some thrive because of it. Law students, "
"for example, are given free access to the two largest legal databases. The "
"companies marketing both hope the students will become so used to their "
"service that they will want to use it and not the other when they become "
"lawyers (and must pay high subscription fees)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3577
msgid "Internet Explorer"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3578
msgid "Netscape"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3565
msgid ""
"Still, the argument is not terribly persuasive. We don't give the alcoholic "
"a defense when he steals his first beer, merely because that will make it "
"more likely that he will buy the next three. Instead, we ordinarily allow "
"businesses to decide for themselves when it is best to give their product "
"away. If Microsoft fears the competition of GNU/Linux, then Microsoft can "
"give its product away, as it did, for example, with Internet Explorer to "
"fight Netscape. A property right means giving the property owner the right "
"to say who gets access to what&mdash;at least ordinarily. And if the law "
"properly balances the rights of the copyright owner with the rights of "
"access, then violating the law is still wrong.  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/> "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"2\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"3\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 79 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3583
msgid ""
"Thus, while I understand the pull of these justifications for piracy, and I "
"certainly see the motivation, in my view, in the end, these efforts at "
"justifying commercial piracy simply don't cut it. This kind of piracy is "
"rampant and just plain wrong. It doesn't transform the content it steals; it "
"doesn't transform the market it competes in. It merely gives someone access "
"to something that the law says he should not have.  Nothing has changed to "
"draw that law into doubt. This form of piracy is flat out wrong."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3593
msgid ""
"But as the examples from the four chapters that introduced this part "
"suggest, even if some piracy is plainly wrong, not all <quote>piracy</quote> "
"is. Or at least, not all <quote>piracy</quote> is wrong if that term is "
"understood in the way it is increasingly used today. Many kinds of "
"<quote>piracy</quote> are useful and productive, to produce either new "
"content or new ways of doing business.  Neither our tradition nor any "
"tradition has ever banned all <quote>piracy</quote> in that sense of the "
"term."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3602
msgid ""
"This doesn't mean that there are no questions raised by the latest piracy "
"concern, peer-to-peer file sharing. But it does mean that we need to "
"understand the harm in peer-to-peer sharing a bit more before we condemn it "
"to the gallows with the charge of piracy."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3608
msgid ""
"For (1) like the original Hollywood, p2p sharing escapes an overly "
"controlling industry; and (2) like the original recording industry, it "
"simply exploits a new way to distribute content; but (3) unlike cable TV, no "
"one is selling the content that is shared on p2p services."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3614
msgid ""
"These differences distinguish p2p sharing from true piracy. They should push "
"us to find a way to protect artists while enabling this sharing to survive."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:3620
msgid "Piracy II"
msgstr ""

#.  f4 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3625
msgid ""
"<citetitle>Bach</citetitle> v. <citetitle>Longman</citetitle>, 98 "
"Eng. Rep. 1274 (1777)."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 80 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3622
msgid ""
"The key to the <quote>piracy</quote> that the law aims to quash is a use "
"that <quote>rob[s] the author of [his] profit.</quote><placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> This means we must determine whether and how "
"much p2p sharing harms before we know how strongly the law should seek to "
"either prevent it or find an alternative to assure the author of his profit."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3648 freeculture.xml:8252
msgid "Christensen, Clayton M."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3639
msgid ""
"See Clayton M. Christensen, <citetitle>The Innovator's Dilemma: The "
"Revolutionary National Bestseller That Changed the Way We Do "
"Business</citetitle> (New York: HarperBusiness, 2000). Professor Christensen "
"examines why companies that give rise to and dominate a product area are "
"frequently unable to come up with the most creative, paradigm-shifting uses "
"for their own products.  This job usually falls to outside innovators, who "
"reassemble existing technology in inventive ways. For a discussion of "
"Christensen's ideas, see Lawrence Lessig, <citetitle>Future</citetitle>, "
"89&ndash;92, 139.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3651
msgid "Fanning, Shawn"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3634
msgid ""
"Peer-to-peer sharing was made famous by Napster. But the inventors of the "
"Napster technology had not made any major technological innovations.  Like "
"every great advance in innovation on the Internet (and, arguably, off the "
"Internet as well<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>), Shawn Fanning "
"and crew had simply put together components that had been developed "
"independently.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  f6 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3659
msgid ""
"See Carolyn Lochhead, <quote>Silicon Valley Dream, Hollywood "
"Nightmare,</quote> <citetitle>San Francisco Chronicle</citetitle>, 24 "
"September 2002, A1; <quote>Rock 'n' Roll Suicide,</quote> <citetitle>New "
"Scientist</citetitle>, 6 July 2002, 42; Benny Evangelista, <quote>Napster "
"Names CEO, Secures New Financing,</quote> <citetitle>San Francisco "
"Chronicle</citetitle>, 23 May 2003, C1; <quote>Napster's Wake-Up "
"Call,</quote> <citetitle>Economist</citetitle>, 24 June 2000, 23; John "
"Naughton, <quote>Hollywood at War with the Internet</quote> (London) "
"<citetitle>Times</citetitle>, 26 July 2002, 18."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3654
msgid ""
"The result was spontaneous combustion. Launched in July 1999, Napster "
"amassed over 10 million users within nine months. After eighteen months, "
"there were close to 80 million registered users of the system.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Courts quickly shut Napster down, but other "
"services emerged to take its place. (Kazaa is currently the most popular p2p "
"service. It boasts over 100 million members.) These services' systems are "
"different architecturally, though not very different in function: Each "
"enables users to make content available to any number of other users. With a "
"p2p system, you can share your favorite songs with your best friend&mdash; "
"or your 20,000 best friends."
msgstr ""

#.  f7 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3681
msgid ""
"See Ipsos-Insight, <citetitle>TEMPO: Keeping Pace with Online Music "
"Distribution</citetitle> (September 2002), reporting that 28 percent of "
"Americans aged twelve and older have downloaded music off of the Internet "
"and 30 percent have listened to digital music files stored on their "
"computers."
msgstr ""

#.  f8 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3690
msgid ""
"Amy Harmon, <quote>Industry Offers a Carrot in Online Music Fight,</quote> "
"<citetitle>New York Times</citetitle>, 6 June 2003, A1."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3675
msgid ""
"According to a number of estimates, a huge proportion of Americans have "
"tasted file-sharing technology. A study by Ipsos-Insight in September 2002 "
"estimated that 60 million Americans had downloaded music&mdash;28 percent of "
"Americans older than 12.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> A survey "
"by the NPD group quoted in <citetitle>The New York Times</citetitle> "
"estimated that 43 million citizens used file-sharing networks to exchange "
"content in May 2003.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> The vast "
"majority of these are not kids. Whatever the actual figure, a massive "
"quantity of content is being <quote>taken</quote> on these networks. The "
"ease and inexpensiveness of file-sharing networks have inspired millions to "
"enjoy music in a way that they hadn't before."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3699
msgid ""
"Some of this enjoying involves copyright infringement. Some of it does "
"not. And even among the part that is technically copyright infringement, "
"calculating the actual harm to copyright owners is more complicated than one "
"might think. So consider&mdash;a bit more carefully than the polarized "
"voices around this debate usually do&mdash;the kinds of sharing that file "
"sharing enables, and the kinds of harm it entails."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 81 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3709
msgid ""
"File sharers share different kinds of content. We can divide these different "
"kinds into four types."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3715
msgid ""
"There are some who use sharing networks as substitutes for purchasing "
"content. Thus, when a new Madonna CD is released, rather than buying the CD, "
"these users simply take it. We might quibble about whether everyone who "
"takes it would actually have bought it if sharing didn't make it available "
"for free. Most probably wouldn't have, but clearly there are some who "
"would.  The latter are the target of category A: users who download instead "
"of purchasing.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  B. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3726
msgid ""
"There are some who use sharing networks to sample music before purchasing "
"it. Thus, a friend sends another friend an MP3 of an artist he's not heard "
"of. The other friend then buys CDs by that artist. This is a kind of "
"targeted advertising, quite likely to succeed.  If the friend recommending "
"the album gains nothing from a bad recommendation, then one could expect "
"that the recommendations will actually be quite good. The net effect of this "
"sharing could increase the quantity of music purchased."
msgstr ""

#.  C. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3737
msgid ""
"There are many who use sharing networks to get access to copyrighted content "
"that is no longer sold or that they would not have purchased because the "
"transaction costs off the Net are too high. This use of sharing networks is "
"among the most rewarding for many. Songs that were part of your childhood "
"but have long vanished from the marketplace magically appear again on the "
"network. (One friend told me that when she discovered Napster, she spent a "
"solid weekend <quote>recalling</quote> old songs. She was astonished at the "
"range and mix of content that was available.)  For content not sold, this is "
"still technically a violation of copyright, though because the copyright "
"owner is not selling the content anymore, the economic harm is "
"zero&mdash;the same harm that occurs when I sell my collection of 1960s "
"45-rpm records to a local collector."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 82 
#.  D. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3754
msgid ""
"Finally, there are many who use sharing networks to get access to content "
"that is not copyrighted or that the copyright owner wants to give away."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3760
msgid "How do these different types of sharing balance out?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3768
msgid ""
"See Liebowitz, <citetitle>Rethinking the Network Economy</citetitle>, "
"148&ndash;49.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3763
msgid ""
"Let's start with some simple but important points. From the perspective of "
"the law, only type D sharing is clearly legal. From the perspective of "
"economics, only type A sharing is clearly harmful.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Type B sharing is illegal but plainly "
"beneficial. Type C sharing is illegal, yet good for society (since more "
"exposure to music is good)  and harmless to the artist (since the work is "
"not otherwise available). So how sharing matters on balance is a hard "
"question to answer&mdash;and certainly much more difficult than the current "
"rhetoric around the issue suggests."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3779
msgid ""
"Whether on balance sharing is harmful depends importantly on how harmful "
"type A sharing is. Just as Edison complained about Hollywood, composers "
"complained about piano rolls, recording artists complained about radio, and "
"broadcasters complained about cable TV, the music industry complains that "
"type A sharing is a kind of <quote>theft</quote> that is "
"<quote>devastating</quote> the industry."
msgstr ""

#.  f10 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3794
msgid ""
"See Cap Gemini Ernst &amp; Young, <citetitle>Technology Evolution and the "
"Music Industry's Business Model Crisis</citetitle> (2003), 3. This report "
"describes the music industry's effort to stigmatize the budding practice of "
"cassette taping in the 1970s, including an advertising campaign featuring a "
"cassette-shape skull and the caption <quote>Home taping is killing "
"music.</quote> At the time digital audio tape became a threat, the Office of "
"Technical Assessment conducted a survey of consumer behavior. In 1988, 40 "
"percent of consumers older than ten had taped music to a cassette "
"format. U.S.  Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, "
"<citetitle>Copyright and Home Copying: Technology Challenges the "
"Law</citetitle>, OTA-CIT-422 (Washington, D.C.: U.S.  Government Printing "
"Office, October 1989), 145&ndash;56."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3787
msgid ""
"While the numbers do suggest that sharing is harmful, how harmful is harder "
"to reckon. It has long been the recording industry's practice to blame "
"technology for any drop in sales. The history of cassette recording is a "
"good example. As a study by Cap Gemini Ernst &amp; Young put it, "
"<quote>Rather than exploiting this new, popular technology, the labels "
"fought it.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> The labels "
"claimed that every album taped was an album unsold, and when record sales "
"fell by 11.4 percent in 1981, the industry claimed that its point was "
"proved. Technology was the problem, and banning or regulating technology was "
"the answer."
msgstr ""

#.  f11 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3820
msgid "U.S. Congress, <citetitle>Copyright and Home Copying</citetitle>, 4."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3812
msgid ""
"Yet soon thereafter, and before Congress was given an opportunity to enact "
"regulation, MTV was launched, and the industry had a record "
"turnaround. <quote>In the end,</quote> Cap Gemini concludes, <quote>the "
"`crisis' &hellip; was not the fault of the tapers&mdash;who did not [stop "
"after MTV came into being]&mdash;but had to a large extent resulted from "
"stagnation in musical innovation at the major labels.</quote><placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3824
msgid ""
"But just because the industry was wrong before does not mean it is wrong "
"today. To evaluate the real threat that p2p sharing presents to the industry "
"in particular, and society in general&mdash;or at least the society that "
"inherits the tradition that gave us the film industry, the record industry, "
"the radio industry, cable TV, and the VCR&mdash;the question is not simply "
"whether type A sharing is harmful. The question is also "
"<emphasis>how</emphasis> harmful type A sharing is, and how beneficial the "
"other types of sharing are."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3834
msgid ""
"We start to answer this question by focusing on the net harm, from the "
"standpoint of the industry as a whole, that sharing networks cause.  The "
"<quote>net harm</quote> to the industry as a whole is the amount by which "
"type A sharing exceeds type B. If the record companies sold more records "
"through sampling than they lost through substitution, then sharing networks "
"would actually benefit music companies on balance. They would therefore have "
"little <emphasis>static</emphasis> reason to resist them."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3845
msgid ""
"Could that be true? Could the industry as a whole be gaining because of file "
"sharing? Odd as that might sound, the data about CD sales actually suggest "
"it might be close."
msgstr ""

#.  f12 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3854
msgid ""
"See Recording Industry Association of America, <citetitle>2002 Yearend "
"Statistics</citetitle>, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #15</ulink>. A later report "
"indicates even greater losses. See Recording Industry Association of "
"America, <citetitle>Some Facts About Music Piracy</citetitle>, 25 June 2003, "
"available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #16</ulink>: "
"<quote>In the past four years, unit shipments of recorded music have fallen "
"by 26 percent from 1.16 billion units in to 860 million units in 2002 in the "
"United States (based on units shipped).  In terms of sales, revenues are "
"down 14 percent, from $14.6 billion in to $12.6 billion last year (based on "
"U.S. dollar value of shipments). The music industry worldwide has gone from "
"a $39 billion industry in 2000 down to a $32 billion industry in 2002 (based "
"on U.S. dollar value of shipments).</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3881
msgid "Black, Jane"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3878
msgid ""
"Jane Black, <quote>Big Music's Broken Record,</quote> BusinessWeek online, "
"13 February 2003, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #17</ulink>.  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3850
msgid ""
"In 2002, the RIAA reported that CD sales had fallen by 8.9 percent, from 882 "
"million to 803 million units; revenues fell 6.7 percent.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> This confirms a trend over the past few "
"years. The RIAA blames Internet piracy for the trend, though there are many "
"other causes that could account for this drop. SoundScan, for example, "
"reports a more than 20 percent drop in the number of CDs released since "
"1999. That no doubt accounts for some of the decrease in sales. Rising "
"prices could account for at least some of the loss. <quote>From 1999 to "
"2001, the average price of a CD rose 7.2 percent, from $13.04 to "
"$14.19.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> Competition from "
"other forms of media could also account for some of the decline. As Jane "
"Black of <citetitle>BusinessWeek</citetitle> notes, <quote>The soundtrack to "
"the film <citetitle>High Fidelity</citetitle> has a list price of "
"$18.98. You could get the whole movie [on DVD] for "
"$19.99.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"2\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 84 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3896
msgid ""
"But let's assume the RIAA is right, and all of the decline in CD sales is "
"because of Internet sharing. Here's the rub: In the same period that the "
"RIAA estimates that 803 million CDs were sold, the RIAA estimates that 2.1 "
"billion CDs were downloaded for free. Thus, although 2.6 times the total "
"number of CDs sold were downloaded for free, sales revenue fell by just 6.7 "
"percent."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3904
msgid ""
"There are too many different things happening at the same time to explain "
"these numbers definitively, but one conclusion is unavoidable: The recording "
"industry constantly asks, <quote>What's the difference between downloading a "
"song and stealing a CD?</quote>&mdash;but their own numbers reveal the "
"difference. If I steal a CD, then there is one less CD to sell. Every taking "
"is a lost sale. But on the basis of the numbers the RIAA provides, it is "
"absolutely clear that the same is not true of downloads. If every download "
"were a lost sale&mdash;if every use of Kazaa <quote>rob[bed] the author of "
"[his] profit</quote>&mdash;then the industry would have suffered a 100 "
"percent drop in sales last year, not a 7 percent drop. If 2.6 times the "
"number of CDs sold were downloaded for free, and yet sales revenue dropped "
"by just 6.7 percent, then there is a huge difference between "
"<quote>downloading a song and stealing a CD.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3919
msgid ""
"These are the harms&mdash;alleged and perhaps exaggerated but, let's assume, "
"real. What of the benefits? File sharing may impose costs on the recording "
"industry. What value does it produce in addition to these costs?"
msgstr ""

#.  f15 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3931
msgid ""
"By one estimate, 75 percent of the music released by the major labels is no "
"longer in print. See Online Entertainment and Copyright Law&mdash;Coming "
"Soon to a Digital Device Near You: Hearing Before the Senate Committee on "
"the Judiciary, 107th Cong., 1st sess. (3 April 2001) (prepared statement of "
"the Future of Music Coalition), available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #18</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3925
msgid ""
"One benefit is type C sharing&mdash;making available content that is "
"technically still under copyright but is no longer commercially available.  "
"This is not a small category of content. There are millions of tracks that "
"are no longer commercially available.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"0\"/> And while it's conceivable that some of this content is not "
"available because the artist producing the content doesn't want it to be "
"made available, the vast majority of it is unavailable solely because the "
"publisher or the distributor has decided it no longer makes economic sense "
"<emphasis>to the company</emphasis> to make it available."
msgstr ""

#.  f16 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3951
msgid ""
"While there are not good estimates of the number of used record stores in "
"existence, in 2002, there were 7,198 used book dealers in the United States, "
"an increase of 20 percent since 1993. See Book Hunter Press, <citetitle>The "
"Quiet Revolution: The Expansion of the Used Book Market</citetitle> (2002), "
"available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link "
"#19</ulink>. Used records accounted for $260 million in sales in 2002. See "
"National Association of Recording Merchandisers, <quote>2002 Annual Survey "
"Results,</quote> available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #20</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3945
msgid ""
"In real space&mdash;long before the Internet&mdash;the market had a simple "
"response to this problem: used book and record stores. There are thousands "
"of used book and used record stores in America today.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> These stores buy content from owners, then sell "
"the content they buy. And under American copyright law, when they buy and "
"sell this content, <emphasis>even if the content is still under "
"copyright</emphasis>, the copyright owner doesn't get a dime. Used book and "
"record stores are commercial entities; their owners make money from the "
"content they sell; but as with cable companies before statutory licensing, "
"they don't have to pay the copyright owner for the content they sell."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:3971
msgid "Bernstein, Leonard"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3973
msgid ""
"Type C sharing, then, is very much like used book stores or used record "
"stores. It is different, of course, because the person making the content "
"available isn't making money from making the content available.  It is also "
"different, of course, because in real space, when I sell a record, I don't "
"have it anymore, while in cyberspace, when someone shares my 1949 recording "
"of Bernstein's <quote>Two Love Songs,</quote> I still have it. That "
"difference would matter economically if the owner of the copyright were "
"selling the record in competition to my sharing. But we're talking about the "
"class of content that is not currently commercially available. The Internet "
"is making it available, through cooperative sharing, without competing with "
"the market."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3986
msgid ""
"It may well be, all things considered, that it would be better if the "
"copyright owner got something from this trade. But just because it may well "
"be better, it doesn't follow that it would be good to ban used book "
"stores. Or put differently, if you think that type C sharing should be "
"stopped, do you think that libraries and used book stores should be shut as "
"well?"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 86 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:3994
msgid ""
"Finally, and perhaps most importantly, file-sharing networks enable type D "
"sharing to occur&mdash;the sharing of content that copyright owners want to "
"have shared or for which there is no continuing copyright. This sharing "
"clearly benefits authors and society. Science fiction author Cory Doctorow, "
"for example, released his first novel, <citetitle>Down and Out in the Magic "
"Kingdom</citetitle>, both free on-line and in bookstores on the same "
"day. His (and his publisher's) thinking was that the on-line distribution "
"would be a great advertisement for the <quote>real</quote> book. People "
"would read part on-line, and then decide whether they liked the book or "
"not. If they liked it, they would be more likely to buy it. Doctorow's "
"content is type D content. If sharing networks enable his work to be spread, "
"then both he and society are better off. (Actually, much better off: It is a "
"great book!)"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4011
msgid ""
"Likewise for work in the public domain: This sharing benefits society with "
"no legal harm to authors at all. If efforts to solve the problem of type A "
"sharing destroy the opportunity for type D sharing, then we lose something "
"important in order to protect type A content."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4017
msgid ""
"The point throughout is this: While the recording industry understandably "
"says, <quote>This is how much we've lost,</quote> we must also ask, "
"<quote>How much has society gained from p2p sharing? What are the "
"efficiencies? What is the content that otherwise would be "
"unavailable?</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4024
msgid ""
"For unlike the piracy I described in the first section of this chapter, much "
"of the <quote>piracy</quote> that file sharing enables is plainly legal and "
"good.  And like the piracy I described in chapter <xref xrefstyle=\"select: "
"labelnumber\" linkend=\"pirates\"/>, much of this piracy is motivated by a "
"new way of spreading content caused by changes in the technology of "
"distribution. Thus, consistent with the tradition that gave us Hollywood, "
"radio, the recording industry, and cable TV, the question we should be "
"asking about file sharing is how best to preserve its benefits while "
"minimizing (to the extent possible) the wrongful harm it causes artists. The "
"question is one of balance. The law should seek that balance, and that "
"balance will be found only with time."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4038
msgid ""
"<quote>But isn't the war just a war against illegal sharing? Isn't the "
"target just what you call type A sharing?</quote>"
msgstr ""

#.  f17 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4055
msgid ""
"See Transcript of Proceedings, In Re: Napster Copyright Litigation at 34- 35 "
"(N.D. Cal., 11 July 2001), nos. MDL-00-1369 MHP, C 99-5183 MHP, available at "
"<ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #21</ulink>. For an "
"account of the litigation and its toll on Napster, see Joseph Menn, "
"<citetitle>All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's "
"Napster</citetitle> (New York: Crown Business, 2003), 269&ndash;82."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4042
msgid ""
"You would think. And we should hope. But so far, it is not. The effect of "
"the war purportedly on type A sharing alone has been felt far beyond that "
"one class of sharing. That much is obvious from the Napster case "
"itself. When Napster told the district court that it had developed a "
"technology to block the transfer of 99.4 percent of identified infringing "
"material, the district court told counsel for Napster 99.4 percent was not "
"good enough. Napster had to push the infringements <quote>down to "
"zero.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4066
msgid ""
"If 99.4 percent is not good enough, then this is a war on file-sharing "
"technologies, not a war on copyright infringement. There is no way to assure "
"that a p2p system is used 100 percent of the time in compliance with the "
"law, any more than there is a way to assure that 100 percent of VCRs or 100 "
"percent of Xerox machines or 100 percent of handguns are used in compliance "
"with the law. Zero tolerance means zero p2p.  The court's ruling means that "
"we as a society must lose the benefits of p2p, even for the totally legal "
"and beneficial uses they serve, simply to assure that there are zero "
"copyright infringements caused by p2p."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4077
msgid ""
"Zero tolerance has not been our history. It has not produced the content "
"industry that we know today. The history of American law has been a process "
"of balance. As new technologies changed the way content was distributed, the "
"law adjusted, after some time, to the new technology.  In this adjustment, "
"the law sought to ensure the legitimate rights of creators while protecting "
"innovation. Sometimes this has meant more rights for creators. Sometimes "
"less."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4090
msgid ""
"So, as we've seen, when <quote>mechanical reproduction</quote> threatened "
"the interests of composers, Congress balanced the rights of composers "
"against the interests of the recording industry. It granted rights to "
"composers, but also to the recording artists: Composers were to be paid, but "
"at a price set by Congress. But when radio started broadcasting the "
"recordings made by these recording artists, and they complained to Congress "
"that their <quote>creative property</quote> was not being respected (since "
"the radio station did not have to pay them for the creativity it broadcast), "
"Congress rejected their claim. An indirect benefit was enough."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4102
msgid ""
"Cable TV followed the pattern of record albums. When the courts rejected the "
"claim that cable broadcasters had to pay for the content they rebroadcast, "
"Congress responded by giving broadcasters a right to compensation, but at a "
"level set by the law. It likewise gave cable companies the right to the "
"content, so long as they paid the statutory price."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 88 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4112
msgid ""
"This compromise, like the compromise affecting records and player pianos, "
"served two important goals&mdash;indeed, the two central goals of any "
"copyright legislation. First, the law assured that new innovators would have "
"the freedom to develop new ways to deliver content.  Second, the law assured "
"that copyright holders would be paid for the content that was "
"distributed. One fear was that if Congress simply required cable TV to pay "
"copyright holders whatever they demanded for their content, then copyright "
"holders associated with broadcasters would use their power to stifle this "
"new technology, cable. But if Congress had permitted cable to use "
"broadcasters' content for free, then it would have unfairly subsidized "
"cable. Thus Congress chose a path that would assure "
"<emphasis>compensation</emphasis> without giving the past (broadcasters) "
"control over the future (cable)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:4127
msgid "Betamax"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4129
msgid ""
"In the same year that Congress struck this balance, two major producers and "
"distributors of film content filed a lawsuit against another technology, the "
"video tape recorder (VTR, or as we refer to them today, VCRs) that Sony had "
"produced, the Betamax. Disney's and Universal's claim against Sony was "
"relatively simple: Sony produced a device, Disney and Universal claimed, "
"that enabled consumers to engage in copyright infringement. Because the "
"device that Sony built had a <quote>record</quote> button, the device could "
"be used to record copyrighted movies and shows. Sony was therefore "
"benefiting from the copyright infringement of its customers. It should "
"therefore, Disney and Universal claimed, be partially liable for that "
"infringement."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 89 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4142
msgid ""
"There was something to Disney's and Universal's claim. Sony did decide to "
"design its machine to make it very simple to record television shows. It "
"could have built the machine to block or inhibit any direct copying from a "
"television broadcast. Or possibly, it could have built the machine to copy "
"only if there were a special <quote>copy me</quote> signal on the line. It "
"was clear that there were many television shows that did not grant anyone "
"permission to copy. Indeed, if anyone had asked, no doubt the majority of "
"shows would not have authorized copying. And in the face of this obvious "
"preference, Sony could have designed its system to minimize the opportunity "
"for copyright infringement. It did not, and for that, Disney and Universal "
"wanted to hold it responsible for the architecture it chose."
msgstr ""

#.  f18 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4164
msgid ""
"Copyright Infringements (Audio and Video Recorders): Hearing on S. 1758 "
"Before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 97th Cong., 1st and 2nd sess., "
"459 (1982) (testimony of Jack Valenti, president, Motion Picture Association "
"of America, Inc.)."
msgstr ""

#.  f19 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4176
msgid "Copyright Infringements (Audio and Video Recorders), 475."
msgstr ""

#.  f20 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4181
msgid ""
"<citetitle>Universal City Studios, Inc</citetitle>. v. <citetitle>Sony "
"Corp. of America</citetitle>, 480 F. Supp. 429, (C.D. Cal., 1979)."
msgstr ""

#.  f21 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4192
msgid ""
"Copyright Infringements (Audio and Video Recorders), 485 (testimony of Jack "
"Valenti)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4157
msgid ""
"MPAA president Jack Valenti became the studios' most vocal champion. Valenti "
"called VCRs <quote>tapeworms.</quote> He warned, <quote>When there are 20, "
"30, 40 million of these VCRs in the land, we will be invaded by millions of "
"`tapeworms,' eating away at the very heart and essence of the most precious "
"asset the copyright owner has, his copyright.</quote><placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> <quote>One does not have to be trained in "
"sophisticated marketing and creative judgment,</quote> he told Congress, "
"<quote>to understand the devastation on the after-theater marketplace caused "
"by the hundreds of millions of tapings that will adversely impact on the "
"future of the creative community in this country. It is simply a question of "
"basic economics and plain common sense.</quote><placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> Indeed, as surveys would later show, percent of "
"VCR owners had movie libraries of ten videos or more<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"2\"/> &mdash; a use the Court would later hold was "
"not <quote>fair.</quote> By <quote>allowing VCR owners to copy freely by the "
"means of an exemption from copyright infringementwithout creating a "
"mechanism to compensate copyrightowners,</quote> Valenti testified, Congress "
"would <quote>take from the owners the very essence of their property: the "
"exclusive right to control who may use their work, that is, who may copy it "
"and thereby profit from its reproduction.</quote><placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"3\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  f22 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4209
msgid ""
"<citetitle>Universal City Studios, Inc</citetitle>. v. <citetitle>Sony "
"Corp. of America</citetitle>, 659 F. 2d 963 (9th Cir.  1981)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:4212
msgid "Kozinski, Alex"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4197
msgid ""
"It took eight years for this case to be resolved by the Supreme Court. In "
"the interim, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which includes Hollywood in "
"its jurisdiction&mdash;leading Judge Alex Kozinski, who sits on that court, "
"refers to it as the <quote>Hollywood Circuit</quote>&mdash;held that Sony "
"would be liable for the copyright infringement made possible by its "
"machines. Under the Ninth Circuit's rule, this totally familiar "
"technology&mdash;which Jack Valenti had called <quote>the Boston Strangler "
"of the American film industry</quote> (worse yet, it was a "
"<emphasis>Japanese</emphasis> Boston Strangler of the American film "
"industry)&mdash;was an illegal technology.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 90 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4215
msgid ""
"But the Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Ninth Circuit.  And in "
"its reversal, the Court clearly articulated its understanding of when and "
"whether courts should intervene in such disputes. As the Court wrote,"
msgstr ""

#.  f23 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4234
msgid ""
"<citetitle>Sony Corp. of America</citetitle> v. <citetitle>Universal City "
"Studios, Inc</citetitle>., 464 U.S. 417, 431 (1984)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4224
msgid ""
"Sound policy, as well as history, supports our consistent deference to "
"Congress when major technological innovations alter the market for "
"copyrighted materials. Congress has the constitutional authority and the "
"institutional ability to accommodate fully the varied permutations of "
"competing interests that are inevitably implicated by such new "
"technology.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4239
msgid ""
"Congress was asked to respond to the Supreme Court's decision.  But as with "
"the plea of recording artists about radio broadcasts, Congress ignored the "
"request. Congress was convinced that American film got enough, this "
"<quote>taking</quote> notwithstanding.  If we put these cases together, a "
"pattern is clear:"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><informaltable><tgroup><thead><row><entry>
#: freeculture.xml:4250
msgid "CASE"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><informaltable><tgroup><thead><row><entry>
#: freeculture.xml:4251
msgid "WHOSE VALUE WAS <quote>PIRATED</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><informaltable><tgroup><thead><row><entry>
#: freeculture.xml:4252
msgid "RESPONSE OF THE COURTS"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><informaltable><tgroup><thead><row><entry>
#: freeculture.xml:4253
msgid "RESPONSE OF CONGRESS"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
#: freeculture.xml:4258
msgid "Recordings"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
#: freeculture.xml:4259
msgid "Composers"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
#: freeculture.xml:4260 freeculture.xml:4272 freeculture.xml:4278
msgid "No protection"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
#: freeculture.xml:4261 freeculture.xml:4273
msgid "Statutory license"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
#: freeculture.xml:4265
msgid "Recording artists"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
#: freeculture.xml:4266
msgid "N/A"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
#: freeculture.xml:4267 freeculture.xml:4279
msgid "Nothing"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
#: freeculture.xml:4271
msgid "Broadcasters"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
#: freeculture.xml:4276
msgid "VCR"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
#: freeculture.xml:4277
msgid "Film creators"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4289
msgid ""
"These are the most important instances in our history, but there are other "
"cases as well. The technology of digital audio tape (DAT), for example, was "
"regulated by Congress to minimize the risk of piracy. The remedy Congress "
"imposed did burden DAT producers, by taxing tape sales and controlling the "
"technology of DAT. See Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 (Title 17 of the "
"<citetitle>United States Code</citetitle>), Pub. L. No. 102-563, 106 Stat.  "
"4237, codified at 17 U.S.C. §1001. Again, however, this regulation did not "
"eliminate the opportunity for free riding in the sense I've described. See "
"Lessig, <citetitle>Future</citetitle>, 71. See also Picker, <quote>From "
"Edison to the Broadcast Flag,</quote> <citetitle>University of Chicago Law "
"Review</citetitle> 70 (2003): 293&ndash;96.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4286
msgid ""
"In each case throughout our history, a new technology changed the way "
"content was distributed.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> In each "
"case, throughout our history, that change meant that someone got a "
"<quote>free ride</quote> on someone else's work."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 91 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4307
msgid ""
"In <emphasis>none</emphasis> of these cases did either the courts or "
"Congress eliminate all free riding. In <emphasis>none</emphasis> of these "
"cases did the courts or Congress insist that the law should assure that the "
"copyright holder get all the value that his copyright created. In every "
"case, the copyright owners complained of <quote>piracy.</quote> In every "
"case, Congress acted to recognize some of the legitimacy in the behavior of "
"the <quote>pirates.</quote> In each case, Congress allowed some new "
"technology to benefit from content made before. It balanced the interests at "
"stake."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4319
msgid ""
"When you think across these examples, and the other examples that make up "
"the first four chapters of this section, this balance makes sense. Was Walt "
"Disney a pirate? Would doujinshi be better if creators had to ask "
"permission? Should tools that enable others to capture and spread images as "
"a way to cultivate or criticize our culture be better regulated? Is it "
"really right that building a search engine should expose you to $15 million "
"in damages? Would it have been better if Edison had controlled film? Should "
"every cover band have to hire a lawyer to get permission to record a song?"
msgstr ""

#.  f25 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4336
msgid ""
"<citetitle>Sony Corp. of America</citetitle> v. <citetitle>Universal City "
"Studios, Inc</citetitle>., 464 U.S. 417, (1984)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4331
msgid ""
"We could answer yes to each of these questions, but our tradition has "
"answered no. In our tradition, as the Supreme Court has stated, copyright "
"<quote>has never accorded the copyright owner complete control over all "
"possible uses of his work.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
"Instead, the particular uses that the law regulates have been defined by "
"balancing the good that comes from granting an exclusive right against the "
"burdens such an exclusive right creates. And this balancing has historically "
"been done <emphasis>after</emphasis> a technology has matured, or settled "
"into the mix of technologies that facilitate the distribution of content."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4347
msgid ""
"We should be doing the same thing today. The technology of the Internet is "
"changing quickly. The way people connect to the Internet (wires "
"vs. wireless) is changing very quickly. No doubt the network should not "
"become a tool for <quote>stealing</quote> from artists. But neither should "
"the law become a tool to entrench one particular way in which artists (or "
"more accurately, distributors) get paid. As I describe in some detail in the "
"last chapter of this book, we should be securing income to artists while we "
"allow the market to secure the most efficient way to promote and distribute "
"content. This will require changes in the law, at least in the "
"interim. These changes should be designed to balance the protection of the "
"law against the strong public interest that innovation continue."
msgstr ""

#.  f26 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4371
msgid ""
"John Schwartz, <quote>New Economy: The Attack on Peer-to-Peer Software "
"Echoes Past Efforts,</quote> <citetitle>New York Times</citetitle>, 22 "
"September 2003, C3."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4363
msgid ""
"This is especially true when a new technology enables a vastly superior mode "
"of distribution. And this p2p has done. P2p technologies can be ideally "
"efficient in moving content across a widely diverse network.  Left to "
"develop, they could make the network vastly more efficient.  Yet these "
"<quote>potential public benefits,</quote> as John Schwartz writes in "
"<citetitle>The New York Times</citetitle>, <quote>could be delayed in the "
"P2P fight.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Yet when anyone "
"begins to talk about <quote>balance,</quote> the copyright warriors raise a "
"different argument. <quote>All this hand waving about balance and "
"incentives,</quote> they say, <quote>misses a fundamental point. Our "
"content,</quote> the warriors insist, <quote>is our "
"<emphasis>property</emphasis>. Why should we wait for Congress to "
"`rebalance' our property rights? Do you have to wait before calling the "
"police when your car has been stolen? And why should Congress deliberate at "
"all about the merits of this theft? Do we ask whether the car thief had a "
"good use for the car before we arrest him?</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4385
msgid ""
"<quote>It is <emphasis>our property</emphasis>,</quote> the warriors "
"insist. <quote>And it should be protected just as any other property is "
"protected.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><title>
#: freeculture.xml:4394
msgid "<quote>PROPERTY</quote>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 94 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4399
msgid ""
"The copyright warriors are right: A copyright is a kind of property. It can "
"be owned and sold, and the law protects against its theft. Ordinarily, the "
"copyright owner gets to hold out for any price he wants. Markets reckon the "
"supply and demand that partially determine the price she can get."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4406
msgid ""
"But in ordinary language, to call a copyright a <quote>property</quote> "
"right is a bit misleading, for the property of copyright is an odd kind of "
"property.  Indeed, the very idea of property in any idea or any expression "
"is very odd. I understand what I am taking when I take the picnic table you "
"put in your backyard. I am taking a thing, the picnic table, and after I "
"take it, you don't have it. But what am I taking when I take the good "
"<emphasis>idea</emphasis> you had to put a picnic table in the "
"backyard&mdash;by, for example, going to Sears, buying a table, and putting "
"it in my backyard? What is the thing I am taking then?"
msgstr ""

#.  f1 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4431
msgid ""
"Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson (13 August 1813) in "
"<citetitle>The Writings of Thomas Jefferson</citetitle>, vol. 6 (Andrew "
"A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh, eds., 1903), 330, 333&ndash;34."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4418
msgid ""
"The point is not just about the thingness of picnic tables versus ideas, "
"though that's an important difference. The point instead is that in the "
"ordinary case&mdash;indeed, in practically every case except for a narrow "
"range of exceptions&mdash;ideas released to the world are free. I don't take "
"anything from you when I copy the way you dress&mdash;though I might seem "
"weird if I did it every day, and especially weird if you are a "
"woman. Instead, as Thomas Jefferson said (and as is especially true when I "
"copy the way someone else dresses), <quote>He who receives an idea from me, "
"receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his "
"taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.</quote><placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4437
msgid ""
"The exceptions to free use are ideas and expressions within the reach of the "
"law of patent and copyright, and a few other domains that I won't discuss "
"here. Here the law says you can't take my idea or expression without my "
"permission: The law turns the intangible into property."
msgstr ""

#.  f2 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4450
msgid ""
"As the legal realists taught American law, all property rights are "
"intangible.  A property right is simply a right that an individual has "
"against the world to do or not do certain things that may or may not attach "
"to a physical object. The right itself is intangible, even if the object to "
"which it is (metaphorically) attached is tangible. See Adam Mossoff, "
"<quote>What Is Property? Putting the Pieces Back Together,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Arizona Law Review</citetitle> 45 (2003): 373, 429 n. 241."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4445
msgid ""
"But how, and to what extent, and in what form&mdash;the details, in other "
"words&mdash;matter. To get a good sense of how this practice of turning the "
"intangible into property emerged, we need to place this "
"<quote>property</quote> in its proper context.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4460
msgid ""
"My strategy in doing this will be the same as my strategy in the preceding "
"part. I offer four stories to help put the idea of <quote>copyright material "
"is property</quote> in context. Where did the idea come from? What are its "
"limits? How does it function in practice? After these stories, the "
"significance of this true statement&mdash;<quote>copyright material is "
"property</quote>&mdash; will be a bit more clear, and its implications will "
"be revealed as quite different from the implications that the copyright "
"warriors would have us draw."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
#: freeculture.xml:4473
msgid "CHAPTER SIX: Founders"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:4474
msgid "Henry V"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:4475 freeculture.xml:4615
msgid "Branagh, Kenneth"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4477
msgid ""
"William Shakespeare wrote <citetitle>Romeo and Juliet</citetitle> in "
"1595. The play was first published in 1597. It was the eleventh major play "
"that Shakespeare had written. He would continue to write plays through 1613, "
"and the plays that he wrote have continued to define Anglo-American culture "
"ever since. So deeply have the works of a sixteenth-century writer seeped "
"into our culture that we often don't even recognize their source.  I once "
"overheard someone commenting on Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Henry V: "
"<quote>I liked it, but Shakespeare is so full of clichés.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#.  f1 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4492
msgid ""
"Jacob Tonson is typically remembered for his associations with prominent "
"eighteenth-century literary figures, especially John Dryden, and for his "
"handsome <quote>definitive editions</quote> of classic works. In addition to "
"<citetitle>Romeo and Juliet</citetitle>, he published an astonishing array "
"of works that still remain at the heart of the English canon, including "
"collected works of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Milton, and John "
"Dryden. See Keith Walker, <quote>Jacob Tonson, Bookseller,</quote> "
"<citetitle>American Scholar</citetitle> 61:3 (1992): 424&ndash;31."
msgstr ""

#.  f2 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4503
msgid ""
"Lyman Ray Patterson, <citetitle>Copyright in Historical "
"Perspective</citetitle> (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1968), "
"151&ndash;52."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 97 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4488
msgid ""
"In 1774, almost 180 years after <citetitle>Romeo and Juliet</citetitle> was "
"written, the <quote>copy-right</quote> for the work was still thought by "
"many to be the exclusive right of a single London publisher, Jacob "
"Tonson.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Tonson was the most "
"prominent of a small group of publishers called the Conger<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> who controlled bookselling in England during "
"the eighteenth century. The Conger claimed a perpetual right to control the "
"<quote>copy</quote> of books that they had acquired from authors. That "
"perpetual right meant that no one else could publish copies of a book to "
"which they held the copyright.  Prices of the classics were thus kept high; "
"competition to produce better or cheaper editions was eliminated."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4525
msgid ""
"As Siva Vaidhyanathan nicely argues, it is erroneous to call this a "
"<quote>copyright law.</quote> See Vaidhyanathan, <citetitle>Copyrights and "
"Copywrongs</citetitle>, 40.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4516
msgid ""
"Now, there's something puzzling about the year 1774 to anyone who knows a "
"little about copyright law. The better-known year in the history of "
"copyright is 1710, the year that the British Parliament adopted the first "
"<quote>copyright</quote> act. Known as the Statute of Anne, the act stated "
"that all published works would get a copyright term of fourteen years, "
"renewable once if the author was alive, and that all works already published "
"by 1710 would get a single term of twenty-one additional years.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Under this law, <citetitle>Romeo and "
"Juliet</citetitle> should have been free in 1731. So why was there any issue "
"about it still being under Tonson's control in 1774?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:4542
msgid "Licensing Act (1662)"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4533
msgid ""
"The reason is that the English hadn't yet agreed on what a "
"<quote>copyright</quote> was&mdash;indeed, no one had. At the time the "
"English passed the Statute of Anne, there was no other legislation governing "
"copyrights.  The last law regulating publishers, the Licensing Act of 1662, "
"had expired in 1695. That law gave publishers a monopoly over publishing, as "
"a way to make it easier for the Crown to control what was published.  But "
"after it expired, there was no positive law that said that the publishers, "
"or <quote>Stationers,</quote> had an exclusive right to print books.  "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4545
msgid ""
"There was no <emphasis>positive</emphasis> law, but that didn't mean that "
"there was no law. The Anglo-American legal tradition looks to both the words "
"of legislatures and the words of judges to know the rules that are to govern "
"how people are to behave. We call the words from legislatures "
"<quote>positive law.</quote> We call the words from judges <quote>common "
"law.</quote> The common law sets the background against which legislatures "
"legislate; the legislature, ordinarily, can trump that background only if it "
"passes a law to displace it. And so the real question after the licensing "
"statutes had expired was whether the common law protected a copyright, "
"independent of any positive law."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 98 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4557
msgid ""
"This question was important to the publishers, or "
"<quote>booksellers,</quote> as they were called, because there was growing "
"competition from foreign publishers. The Scottish, in particular, were "
"increasingly publishing and exporting books to England. That competition "
"reduced the profits of the Conger, which reacted by demanding that "
"Parliament pass a law to again give them exclusive control over "
"publishing. That demand ultimately resulted in the Statute of Anne."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4569
msgid ""
"The Statute of Anne granted the author or <quote>proprietor</quote> of a "
"book an exclusive right to print that book. In an important limitation, "
"however, and to the horror of the booksellers, the law gave the bookseller "
"that right for a limited term. At the end of that term, the copyright "
"<quote>expired,</quote> and the work would then be free and could be "
"published by anyone. Or so the legislature is thought to have believed."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4578
msgid ""
"Now, the thing to puzzle about for a moment is this: Why would Parliament "
"limit the exclusive right? Not why would they limit it to the particular "
"limit they set, but why would they limit the right <emphasis>at "
"all?</emphasis>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4584
msgid ""
"For the booksellers, and the authors whom they represented, had a very "
"strong claim. Take <citetitle>Romeo and Juliet</citetitle> as an example: "
"That play was written by Shakespeare. It was his genius that brought it into "
"the world. He didn't take anybody's property when he created this play "
"(that's a controversial claim, but never mind), and by his creating this "
"play, he didn't make it any harder for others to craft a play. So why is it "
"that the law would ever allow someone else to come along and take "
"Shakespeare's play without his, or his estate's, permission? What reason is "
"there to allow someone else to <quote>steal</quote> Shakespeare's work?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4595
msgid ""
"The answer comes in two parts. We first need to see something special about "
"the notion of <quote>copyright</quote> that existed at the time of the "
"Statute of Anne. Second, we have to see something important about "
"<quote>booksellers.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 99 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4601
msgid ""
"First, about copyright. In the last three hundred years, we have come to "
"apply the concept of <quote>copyright</quote> ever more broadly. But in "
"1710, it wasn't so much a concept as it was a very particular right. The "
"copyright was born as a very specific set of restrictions: It forbade others "
"from reprinting a book. In 1710, the <quote>copy-right</quote> was a right "
"to use a particular machine to replicate a particular work. It did not go "
"beyond that very narrow right. It did not control any more generally how a "
"work could be <emphasis>used</emphasis>. Today the right includes a large "
"collection of restrictions on the freedom of others: It grants the author "
"the exclusive right to copy, the exclusive right to distribute, the "
"exclusive right to perform, and so on."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4617
msgid ""
"So, for example, even if the copyright to Shakespeare's works were "
"perpetual, all that would have meant under the original meaning of the term "
"was that no one could reprint Shakespeare's work without the permission of "
"the Shakespeare estate. It would not have controlled anything, for example, "
"about how the work could be performed, whether the work could be translated, "
"or whether Kenneth Branagh would be allowed to make his films. The "
"<quote>copy-right</quote> was only an exclusive right to print&mdash;no "
"less, of course, but also no more."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:4626
msgid "Henry VIII, King of England"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:4627
msgid "Statute of Monopolies (1656)"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4629
msgid ""
"Even that limited right was viewed with skepticism by the British.  They had "
"had a long and ugly experience with <quote>exclusive rights,</quote> "
"especially <quote>exclusive rights</quote> granted by the Crown. The English "
"had fought a civil war in part about the Crown's practice of handing out "
"monopolies&mdash;especially monopolies for works that already existed. King "
"Henry VIII granted a patent to print the Bible and a monopoly to Darcy to "
"print playing cards. The English Parliament began to fight back against this "
"power of the Crown. In 1656, it passed the Statute of Monopolies, limiting "
"monopolies to patents for new inventions. And by 1710, Parliament was eager "
"to deal with the growing monopoly in publishing."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4642
msgid ""
"Thus the <quote>copy-right,</quote> when viewed as a monopoly right, was "
"naturally viewed as a right that should be limited. (However convincing the "
"claim that <quote>it's my property, and I should have it forever,</quote> "
"try sounding convincing when uttering, <quote>It's my monopoly, and I should "
"have it forever.</quote>) The state would protect the exclusive right, but "
"only so long as it benefited society. The British saw the harms from "
"specialinterest favors; they passed a law to stop them."
msgstr ""

#.  f4 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4666
msgid ""
"Philip Wittenberg, <citetitle>The Protection and Marketing of Literary "
"Property</citetitle> (New York: J. Messner, Inc., 1937), 31."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4651
msgid ""
"Second, about booksellers. It wasn't just that the copyright was a "
"monopoly. It was also that it was a monopoly held by the booksellers.  "
"Booksellers sound quaint and harmless to us. They were not viewed as "
"harmless in seventeenth-century England. Members of the Conger were "
"increasingly seen as monopolists of the worst kind&mdash;tools of the "
"Crown's repression, selling the liberty of England to guarantee themselves a "
"monopoly profit. The attacks against these monopolists were harsh: Milton "
"described them as <quote>old patentees and monopolizers in the trade of "
"book-selling</quote>; they were <quote>men who do not therefore labour in an "
"honest profession to which learning is indetted.</quote><placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4671
msgid ""
"Many believed the power the booksellers exercised over the spread of "
"knowledge was harming that spread, just at the time the Enlightenment was "
"teaching the importance of education and knowledge spread generally. The "
"idea that knowledge should be free was a hallmark of the time, and these "
"powerful commercial interests were interfering with that idea."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4679
msgid ""
"To balance this power, Parliament decided to increase competition among "
"booksellers, and the simplest way to do that was to spread the wealth of "
"valuable books. Parliament therefore limited the term of copyrights, and "
"thereby guaranteed that valuable books would become open to any publisher to "
"publish after a limited time. Thus the setting of the term for existing "
"works to just twenty-one years was a compromise to fight the power of the "
"booksellers. The limitation on terms was an indirect way to assure "
"competition among publishers, and thus the construction and spread of "
"culture."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4691
msgid ""
"When 1731 (1710 + 21) came along, however, the booksellers were getting "
"anxious. They saw the consequences of more competition, and like every "
"competitor, they didn't like them. At first booksellers simply ignored the "
"Statute of Anne, continuing to insist on the perpetual right to control "
"publication. But in 1735 and 1737, they tried to persuade Parliament to "
"extend their terms. Twenty-one years was not enough, they said; they needed "
"more time."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4700
msgid ""
"Parliament rejected their requests. As one pamphleteer put it, in words that "
"echo today,"
msgstr ""

#.  f5 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4715
msgid ""
"A Letter to a Member of Parliament concerning the Bill now depending in the "
"House of Commons, for making more effectual an Act in the Eighth Year of the "
"Reign of Queen Anne, entitled, An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by "
"Vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such "
"Copies, during the Times therein mentioned (London, 1735), in Brief Amici "
"Curiae of Tyler T. Ochoa et al., 8, <citetitle>Eldred</citetitle> "
"v. <citetitle>Ashcroft</citetitle>, 537 U.S. 186 (2003) (No. 01-618)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4705
msgid ""
"I see no Reason for granting a further Term now, which will not hold as well "
"for granting it again and again, as often as the Old ones Expire; so that "
"should this Bill pass, it will in Effect be establishing a perpetual "
"Monopoly, a Thing deservedly odious in the Eye of the Law; it will be a "
"great Cramp to Trade, a Discouragement to Learning, no Benefit to the "
"Authors, but a general Tax on the Publick; and all this only to increase the "
"private Gain of the Booksellers.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4726
msgid ""
"Having failed in Parliament, the publishers turned to the courts in a series "
"of cases. Their argument was simple and direct: The Statute of Anne gave "
"authors certain protections through positive law, but those protections were "
"not intended as replacements for the common law.  Instead, they were "
"intended simply to supplement the common law.  Under common law, it was "
"already wrong to take another person's creative <quote>property</quote> and "
"use it without his permission. The Statute of Anne, the booksellers argued, "
"didn't change that. Therefore, just because the protections of the Statute "
"of Anne expired, that didn't mean the protections of the common law expired: "
"Under the common law they had the right to ban the publication of a book, "
"even if its Statute of Anne copyright had expired. This, they argued, was "
"the only way to protect authors."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4747
msgid ""
"Lyman Ray Patterson, <quote>Free Speech, Copyright, and Fair Use,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Vanderbilt Law Review</citetitle> 40 (1987): 28. For a "
"wonderfully compelling account, see Vaidhyanathan, 37&ndash;48.  "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4741
msgid ""
"This was a clever argument, and one that had the support of some of the "
"leading jurists of the day. It also displayed extraordinary chutzpah.  Until "
"then, as law professor Raymond Patterson has put it, <quote>The publishers "
"&hellip; had as much concern for authors as a cattle rancher has for "
"cattle.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> The bookseller "
"didn't care squat for the rights of the author.  His concern was the "
"monopoly profit that the author's work gave."
msgstr ""

#.  f7 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4760
msgid ""
"For a compelling account, see David Saunders, <citetitle>Authorship and "
"Copyright</citetitle> (London: Routledge, 1992), 62&ndash;69."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4756
msgid ""
"The booksellers' argument was not accepted without a fight.  The hero of "
"this fight was a Scottish bookseller named Alexander Donaldson.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:4772 freeculture.xml:14750
msgid "Rose, Mark"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4770
msgid ""
"Mark Rose, <citetitle>Authors and Owners</citetitle> (Cambridge: Harvard "
"University Press, 1993), 92.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  f9 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4781
msgid "Ibid., 93."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:4783
msgid "Boswell, James"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:4784
msgid "Erskine, Andrew"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4765
msgid ""
"Donaldson was an outsider to the London Conger. He began his career in "
"Edinburgh in 1750. The focus of his business was inexpensive reprints "
"<quote>of standard works whose copyright term had expired,</quote> at least "
"under the Statute of Anne.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
"Donaldson's publishing house prospered and became <quote>something of a "
"center for literary Scotsmen.</quote> <quote>[A]mong them,</quote> Professor "
"Mark Rose writes, was <quote>the young James Boswell who, together with his "
"friend Andrew Erskine, published an anthology of contemporary Scottish poems "
"with Donaldson.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"2\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"3\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  f10 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4793
msgid ""
"Lyman Ray Patterson, <citetitle>Copyright in Historical "
"Perspective</citetitle>, 167 (quoting Borwell)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4787
msgid ""
"When the London booksellers tried to shut down Donaldson's shop in Scotland, "
"he responded by moving his shop to London, where he sold inexpensive "
"editions <quote>of the most popular English books, in defiance of the "
"supposed common law right of Literary Property.</quote><placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> His books undercut the Conger prices by 30 to "
"50 percent, and he rested his right to compete upon the ground that, under "
"the Statute of Anne, the works he was selling had passed out of protection."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4801
msgid ""
"The London booksellers quickly brought suit to block <quote>piracy</quote> "
"like Donaldson's. A number of actions were successful against the "
"<quote>pirates,</quote> the most important early victory being "
"<citetitle>Millar</citetitle> v. <citetitle>Taylor</citetitle>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:4805
msgid "Taylor, Robert"
msgstr ""

#.  f11 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4814
msgid ""
"Howard B. Abrams, <quote>The Historic Foundation of American Copyright Law: "
"Exploding the Myth of Common Law Copyright,</quote> <citetitle>Wayne Law "
"Review</citetitle> 29 (1983): 1152."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4807
msgid ""
"Millar was a bookseller who in 1729 had purchased the rights to James "
"Thomson's poem <quote>The Seasons.</quote> Millar complied with the "
"requirements of the Statute of Anne, and therefore received the full "
"protection of the statute. After the term of copyright ended, Robert Taylor "
"began printing a competing volume. Millar sued, claiming a perpetual common "
"law right, the Statute of Anne notwithstanding.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4823
msgid ""
"Astonishingly to modern lawyers, one of the greatest judges in English "
"history, Lord Mansfield, agreed with the booksellers. Whatever protection "
"the Statute of Anne gave booksellers, it did not, he held, extinguish any "
"common law right. The question was whether the common law would protect the "
"author against subsequent <quote>pirates.</quote> Mansfield's answer was "
"yes: The common law would bar Taylor from reprinting Thomson's poem without "
"Millar's permission. That common law rule thus effectively gave the "
"booksellers a perpetual right to control the publication of any book "
"assigned to them."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 103 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4834
msgid ""
"Considered as a matter of abstract justice&mdash;reasoning as if justice "
"were just a matter of logical deduction from first "
"principles&mdash;Mansfield's conclusion might make some sense. But what it "
"ignored was the larger issue that Parliament had struggled with in 1710: How "
"best to limit the monopoly power of publishers? Parliament's strategy was to "
"offer a term for existing works that was long enough to buy peace in 1710, "
"but short enough to assure that culture would pass into competition within a "
"reasonable period of time. Within twenty-one years, Parliament believed, "
"Britain would mature from the controlled culture that the Crown coveted to "
"the free culture that we inherited."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4849
msgid ""
"The fight to defend the limits of the Statute of Anne was not to end there, "
"however, and it is here that Donaldson enters the mix."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:4852
msgid "Beckett, Thomas"
msgstr ""

#.  f12 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4858
msgid "Ibid., 1156."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4854
msgid ""
"Millar died soon after his victory, so his case was not appealed. His estate "
"sold Thomson's poems to a syndicate of printers that included Thomas "
"Beckett.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Donaldson then released an "
"unauthorized edition of Thomson's works. Beckett, on the strength of the "
"decision in <citetitle>Millar</citetitle>, got an injunction against "
"Donaldson. Donaldson appealed the case to the House of Lords, which "
"functioned much like our own Supreme Court. In February of 1774, that body "
"had the chance to interpret the meaning of Parliament's limits from sixty "
"years before."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4868
msgid ""
"As few legal cases ever do, <citetitle>Donaldson</citetitle> "
"v. <citetitle>Beckett</citetitle> drew an enormous amount of attention "
"throughout Britain. Donaldson's lawyers argued that whatever rights may have "
"existed under the common law, the Statute of Anne terminated those "
"rights. After passage of the Statute of Anne, the only legal protection for "
"an exclusive right to control publication came from that statute. Thus, they "
"argued, after the term specified in the Statute of Anne expired, works that "
"had been protected by the statute were no longer protected."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4878
msgid ""
"The House of Lords was an odd institution. Legal questions were presented to "
"the House and voted upon first by the <quote>law lords,</quote> members of "
"special legal distinction who functioned much like the Justices in our "
"Supreme Court. Then, after the law lords voted, the House of Lords generally "
"voted."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 104 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4885
msgid ""
"The reports about the law lords' votes are mixed. On some counts, it looks "
"as if perpetual copyright prevailed. But there is no ambiguity about how the "
"House of Lords voted as whole. By a two-to-one majority (22 to 11) they "
"voted to reject the idea of perpetual copyrights.  Whatever one's "
"understanding of the common law, now a copyright was fixed for a limited "
"time, after which the work protected by copyright passed into the public "
"domain."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:4903
msgid "Bacon, Francis"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:4904
msgid "Bunyan, John"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:4905
msgid "Johnson, Samuel"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:4906
msgid "Milton, John"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:4907
msgid "Shakespeare, William"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4895
msgid ""
"<quote>The public domain.</quote> Before the case of "
"<citetitle>Donaldson</citetitle> v. <citetitle>Beckett</citetitle>, there "
"was no clear idea of a public domain in England. Before 1774, there was a "
"strong argument that common law copyrights were perpetual.  After 1774, the "
"public domain was born. For the first time in Anglo-American history, the "
"legal control over creative works expired, and the greatest works in English "
"history&mdash;including those of Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton, Johnson, and "
"Bunyan&mdash;were free of legal restraint.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/> <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"2\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"3\"/> "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"4\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  f13 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4920
msgid "Rose, 97."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4910
msgid ""
"It is hard for us to imagine, but this decision by the House of Lords fueled "
"an extraordinarily popular and political reaction. In Scotland, where most "
"of the <quote>pirate publishers</quote> did their work, people celebrated "
"the decision in the streets. As the <citetitle>Edinburgh "
"Advertiser</citetitle> reported, <quote>No private cause has so much "
"engrossed the attention of the public, and none has been tried before the "
"House of Lords in the decision of which so many individuals were "
"interested.</quote> <quote>Great rejoicing in Edinburgh upon victory over "
"literary property: bonfires and illuminations.</quote><placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4924
msgid ""
"In London, however, at least among publishers, the reaction was equally "
"strong in the opposite direction. The <citetitle>Morning "
"Chronicle</citetitle> reported:"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4930
msgid ""
"By the above decision &hellip; near 200,000 pounds worth of what was "
"honestly purchased at public sale, and which was yesterday thought property "
"is now reduced to nothing. The Booksellers of London and Westminster, many "
"of whom sold estates and houses to purchase Copy-right, are in a manner "
"ruined, and those who after many years industry thought they had acquired a "
"competency to provide for their families now find themselves without a "
"shilling to devise to their successors.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 105 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4945
msgid ""
"<quote>Ruined</quote> is a bit of an exaggeration. But it is not an "
"exaggeration to say that the change was profound. The decision of the House "
"of Lords meant that the booksellers could no longer control how culture in "
"England would grow and develop. Culture in England was thereafter "
"<emphasis>free</emphasis>.  Not in the sense that copyrights would not be "
"respected, for of course, for a limited time after a work was published, the "
"bookseller had an exclusive right to control the publication of that "
"book. And not in the sense that books could be stolen, for even after a "
"copyright expired, you still had to buy the book from someone. But "
"<emphasis>free</emphasis> in the sense that the culture and its growth would "
"no longer be controlled by a small group of publishers. As every free market "
"does, this free market of free culture would grow as the consumers and "
"producers chose. English culture would develop as the many English readers "
"chose to let it develop&mdash; chose in the books they bought and wrote; "
"chose in the memes they repeated and endorsed. Chose in a "
"<emphasis>competitive context</emphasis>, not a context in which the choices "
"about what culture is available to people and how they get access to it are "
"made by the few despite the wishes of the many."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4966
msgid ""
"At least, this was the rule in a world where the Parliament is antimonopoly, "
"resistant to the protectionist pleas of publishers. In a world where the "
"Parliament is more pliant, free culture would be less protected."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
#: freeculture.xml:4974
msgid "CHAPTER SEVEN: Recorders"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4976
msgid ""
"Jon Else is a filmmaker. He is best known for his documentaries and has been "
"very successful in spreading his art. He is also a teacher, and as a teacher "
"myself, I envy the loyalty and admiration that his students feel for him. (I "
"met, by accident, two of his students at a dinner party.  He was their god.)"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4983
msgid ""
"Else worked on a documentary that I was involved in. At a break, he told me "
"a story about the freedom to create with film in America today."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:4994 freeculture.xml:5063
msgid "San Francisco Opera"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4988
msgid ""
"In 1990, Else was working on a documentary about Wagner's Ring Cycle. The "
"focus was stagehands at the San Francisco Opera.  Stagehands are a "
"particularly funny and colorful element of an opera.  During a show, they "
"hang out below the stage in the grips' lounge and in the lighting loft. They "
"make a perfect contrast to the art on the stage.  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 107 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:4997
msgid ""
"During one of the performances, Else was shooting some stagehands playing "
"checkers. In one corner of the room was a television set.  Playing on the "
"television set, while the stagehands played checkers and the opera company "
"played Wagner, was <citetitle>The Simpsons</citetitle>. As Else judged it, "
"this touch of cartoon helped capture the flavor of what was special about "
"the scene."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5006
msgid ""
"Years later, when he finally got funding to complete the film, Else "
"attempted to clear the rights for those few seconds of <citetitle>The "
"Simpsons</citetitle>.  For of course, those few seconds are copyrighted; and "
"of course, to use copyrighted material you need the permission of the "
"copyright owner, unless <quote>fair use</quote> or some other privilege "
"applies."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5018 freeculture.xml:5026
msgid "Gracie Films"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5013
msgid ""
"Else called <citetitle>Simpsons</citetitle> creator Matt Groening's office "
"to get permission.  Groening approved the shot. The shot was a "
"four-and-a-halfsecond image on a tiny television set in the corner of the "
"room. How could it hurt? Groening was happy to have it in the film, but he "
"told Else to contact Gracie Films, the company that produces the program.  "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5021
msgid ""
"Gracie Films was okay with it, too, but they, like Groening, wanted to be "
"careful. So they told Else to contact Fox, Gracie's parent company.  Else "
"called Fox and told them about the clip in the corner of the one room shot "
"of the film. Matt Groening had already given permission, Else said. He was "
"just confirming the permission with Fox.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5029
msgid ""
"Then, as Else told me, <quote>two things happened. First we discovered "
"&hellip; that Matt Groening doesn't own his own creation&mdash;or at least "
"that someone [at Fox] believes he doesn't own his own creation.</quote> And "
"second, Fox <quote>wanted ten thousand dollars as a licensing fee for us to "
"use this four-point-five seconds of &hellip; entirely unsolicited "
"<citetitle>Simpsons</citetitle> which was in the corner of the shot.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5037
msgid ""
"Else was certain there was a mistake. He worked his way up to someone he "
"thought was a vice president for licensing, Rebecca Herrera.  He explained "
"to her, <quote>There must be some mistake here. &hellip; We're asking for "
"your educational rate on this.</quote> That was the educational rate, "
"Herrera told Else. A day or so later, Else called again to confirm what he "
"had been told."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 108 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5045
msgid ""
"<quote>I wanted to make sure I had my facts straight,</quote> he told "
"me. <quote>Yes, you have your facts straight,</quote> she said. It would "
"cost $10,000 to use the clip of <citetitle>The Simpsons</citetitle> in the "
"corner of a shot in a documentary film about Wagner's Ring Cycle. And then, "
"astonishingly, Herrera told Else, <quote>And if you quote me, I'll turn you "
"over to our attorneys.</quote> As an assistant to Herrera told Else later "
"on, <quote>They don't give a shit. They just want the money.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5064
msgid "Day After Trinity, The"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5057
msgid ""
"Else didn't have the money to buy the right to replay what was playing on "
"the television backstage at the San Francisco Opera. To reproduce this "
"reality was beyond the documentary filmmaker's budget. At the very last "
"minute before the film was to be released, Else digitally replaced the shot "
"with a clip from another film that he had worked on, <citetitle>The Day "
"After Trinity</citetitle>, from ten years before.  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5067
msgid ""
"There's no doubt that someone, whether Matt Groening or Fox, owns the "
"copyright to <citetitle>The Simpsons</citetitle>. That copyright is their "
"property.  To use that copyrighted material thus sometimes requires the "
"permission of the copyright owner. If the use that Else wanted to make of "
"the <citetitle>Simpsons</citetitle> copyright were one of the uses "
"restricted by the law, then he would need to get the permission of the "
"copyright owner before he could use the work in that way. And in a free "
"market, it is the owner of the copyright who gets to set the price for any "
"use that the law says the owner gets to control."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5078
msgid ""
"For example, <quote>public performance</quote> is a use of <citetitle>The "
"Simpsons</citetitle> that the copyright owner gets to control. If you take a "
"selection of favorite episodes, rent a movie theater, and charge for tickets "
"to come see <quote>My Favorite <citetitle>Simpsons</citetitle>,</quote> then "
"you need to get permission from the copyright owner. And the copyright owner "
"(rightly, in my view) can charge whatever she wants&mdash;$10 or "
"$1,000,000. That's her right, as set by the law."
msgstr ""

#.  f1 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5090
msgid ""
"For an excellent argument that such use is <quote>fair use,</quote> but that "
"lawyers don't permit recognition that it is <quote>fair use,</quote> see "
"Richard A. Posner with William F. Patry, <quote>Fair Use and Statutory "
"Reform in the Wake of <citetitle>Eldred</citetitle></quote> (draft on file "
"with author), University of Chicago Law School, 5 August 2003."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5087
msgid ""
"But when lawyers hear this story about Jon Else and Fox, their first thought "
"is <quote>fair use.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Else's "
"use of just 4.5 seconds of an indirect shot of a "
"<citetitle>Simpsons</citetitle> episode is clearly a fair use of "
"<citetitle>The Simpsons</citetitle>&mdash;and fair use does not require the "
"permission of anyone."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 109 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5102
msgid ""
"So I asked Else why he didn't just rely upon <quote>fair use.</quote> Here's "
"his reply:"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5106
msgid ""
"The <citetitle>Simpsons</citetitle> fiasco was for me a great lesson in the "
"gulf between what lawyers find irrelevant in some abstract sense, and what "
"is crushingly relevant in practice to those of us actually trying to make "
"and broadcast documentaries. I never had any doubt that it was "
"<quote>clearly fair use</quote> in an absolute legal sense. But I couldn't "
"rely on the concept in any concrete way. Here's why:"
msgstr ""

#.  1. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5116
msgid ""
"Before our films can be broadcast, the network requires that we buy Errors "
"and Omissions insurance. The carriers require a detailed <quote>visual cue "
"sheet</quote> listing the source and licensing status of each shot in the "
"film. They take a dim view of <quote>fair use,</quote> and a claim of "
"<quote>fair use</quote> can grind the application process to a halt."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><orderedlist><listitem><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5123
msgid "<citetitle>Star Wars</citetitle>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><orderedlist><listitem><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5135
msgid "Lucas, George"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5126
msgid ""
"I probably never should have asked Matt Groening in the first place. But I "
"knew (at least from folklore) that Fox had a history of tracking down and "
"stopping unlicensed <citetitle>Simpsons</citetitle> usage, just as George "
"Lucas had a very high profile litigating <citetitle>Star Wars</citetitle> "
"usage. So I decided to play by the book, thinking that we would be granted "
"free or cheap license to four seconds of <citetitle>Simpsons</citetitle>. As "
"a documentary producer working to exhaustion on a shoestring, the last thing "
"I wanted was to risk legal trouble, even nuisance legal trouble, and even to "
"defend a principle.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  3. 
#.  PAGE BREAK 110 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5139
msgid ""
"I did, in fact, speak with one of your colleagues at Stanford Law School "
"&hellip; who confirmed that it was fair use. He also confirmed that Fox "
"would <quote>depose and litigate you to within an inch of your life,</quote> "
"regardless of the merits of my claim. He made clear that it would boil down "
"to who had the bigger legal department and the deeper pockets, me or them."
msgstr ""

#.  4. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5149
msgid ""
"The question of fair use usually comes up at the end of the project, when we "
"are up against a release deadline and out of money."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5156
msgid ""
"In theory, fair use means you need no permission. The theory therefore "
"supports free culture and insulates against a permission culture.  But in "
"practice, fair use functions very differently. The fuzzy lines of the law, "
"tied to the extraordinary liability if lines are crossed, means that the "
"effective fair use for many types of creators is slight. The law has the "
"right aim; practice has defeated the aim."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5164
msgid ""
"This practice shows just how far the law has come from its "
"eighteenth-century roots. The law was born as a shield to protect "
"publishers' profits against the unfair competition of a pirate. It has "
"matured into a sword that interferes with any use, transformative or not."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
#: freeculture.xml:5173
msgid "CHAPTER EIGHT: Transformers"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5174
msgid "Allen, Paul"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5176 freeculture.xml:5240 freeculture.xml:5424 freeculture.xml:9858 freeculture.xml:14129
msgid "Alben, Alex"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5179
msgid ""
"In 1993, Alex Alben was a lawyer working at Starwave, Inc.  Starwave was an "
"innovative company founded by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen to develop "
"digital entertainment. Long before the Internet became popular, Starwave "
"began investing in new technology for delivering entertainment in "
"anticipation of the power of networks."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><secondary>
#: freeculture.xml:5187
msgid "retrospective compilations on"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5190
msgid ""
"Alben had a special interest in new technology. He was intrigued by the "
"emerging market for CD-ROM technology&mdash;not to distribute film, but to "
"do things with film that otherwise would be very difficult.  In 1993, he "
"launched an initiative to develop a product to build retrospectives on the "
"work of particular actors. The first actor chosen was Clint Eastwood. The "
"idea was to showcase all of the work of Eastwood, with clips from his films "
"and interviews with figures important to his career."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5200
msgid ""
"At that time, Eastwood had made more than fifty films, as an actor and as a "
"director. Alben began with a series of interviews with Eastwood, asking him "
"about his career. Because Starwave produced those interviews, it was free to "
"include them on the CD."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 112 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5207
msgid ""
"That alone would not have made a very interesting product, so Starwave "
"wanted to add content from the movies in Eastwood's career: posters, "
"scripts, and other material relating to the films Eastwood made. Most of his "
"career was spent at Warner Brothers, and so it was relatively easy to get "
"permission for that content."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5214
msgid ""
"Then Alben and his team decided to include actual film clips. <quote>Our "
"goal was that we were going to have a clip from every one of Eastwood's "
"films,</quote> Alben told me. It was here that the problem arose. <quote>No "
"one had ever really done this before,</quote> Alben explained. <quote>No one "
"had ever tried to do this in the context of an artistic look at an actor's "
"career.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5222
msgid ""
"Alben brought the idea to Michael Slade, the CEO of Starwave.  Slade asked, "
"<quote>Well, what will it take?</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para><indexterm><secondary>
#: freeculture.xml:5238
msgid "publicity rights on images of"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5232
msgid ""
"Technically, the rights that Alben had to clear were mainly those of "
"publicity&mdash;rights an artist has to control the commercial exploitation "
"of his image.  But these rights, too, burden <quote>Rip, Mix, Burn</quote> "
"creativity, as this chapter evinces.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5226
msgid ""
"Alben replied, <quote>Well, we're going to have to clear rights from "
"everyone who appears in these films, and the music and everything else that "
"we want to use in these film clips.</quote> Slade said, <quote>Great! Go for "
"it.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5244
msgid ""
"The problem was that neither Alben nor Slade had any idea what clearing "
"those rights would mean. Every actor in each of the films could have a claim "
"to royalties for the reuse of that film. But CD- ROMs had not been specified "
"in the contracts for the actors, so there was no clear way to know just what "
"Starwave was to do."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5251
msgid ""
"I asked Alben how he dealt with the problem. With an obvious pride in his "
"resourcefulness that obscured the obvious bizarreness of his tale, Alben "
"recounted just what they did:"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5257
msgid ""
"So we very mechanically went about looking up the film clips.  We made some "
"artistic decisions about what film clips to include&mdash;of course we were "
"going to use the <quote>Make my day</quote> clip from <citetitle>Dirty "
"Harry</citetitle>. But you then need to get the guy on the ground who's "
"wiggling under the gun and you need to get his permission.  And then you "
"have to decide what you are going to pay him."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 113 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5266
msgid ""
"We decided that it would be fair if we offered them the dayplayer rate for "
"the right to reuse that performance. We're talking about a clip of less than "
"a minute, but to reuse that performance in the CD-ROM the rate at the time "
"was about $600.  So we had to identify the people&mdash;some of them were "
"hard to identify because in Eastwood movies you can't tell who's the guy "
"crashing through the glass&mdash;is it the actor or is it the stuntman? And "
"then we just, we put together a team, my assistant and some others, and we "
"just started calling people."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5277
msgid "Sutherland, Donald"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5279
msgid ""
"Some actors were glad to help&mdash;Donald Sutherland, for example, followed "
"up himself to be sure that the rights had been cleared.  Others were "
"dumbfounded at their good fortune. Alben would ask, <quote>Hey, can I pay "
"you $600 or maybe if you were in two films, you know, $1,200?</quote> And "
"they would say, <quote>Are you for real? Hey, I'd love to get "
"$1,200.</quote> And some of course were a bit difficult (estranged ex-wives, "
"in particular). But eventually, Alben and his team had cleared the rights to "
"this retrospective CD-ROM on Clint Eastwood's career."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5290
msgid ""
"It was one <emphasis>year</emphasis> later&mdash;<quote>and even then we "
"weren't sure whether we were totally in the clear.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5294
msgid ""
"Alben is proud of his work. The project was the first of its kind and the "
"only time he knew of that a team had undertaken such a massive project for "
"the purpose of releasing a retrospective."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5300
msgid ""
"Everyone thought it would be too hard. Everyone just threw up their hands "
"and said, <quote>Oh, my gosh, a film, it's so many copyrights, there's the "
"music, there's the screenplay, there's the director, there's the "
"actors.</quote> But we just broke it down. We just put it into its "
"constituent parts and said, <quote>Okay, there's this many actors, this many "
"directors, &hellip; this many musicians,</quote> and we just went at it very "
"systematically and cleared the rights."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 114 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5312
msgid ""
"And no doubt, the product itself was exceptionally good. Eastwood loved it, "
"and it sold very well."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5315
msgid "Drucker, Peter"
msgstr ""

#.  f2 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5323
msgid ""
"U.S. Department of Commerce Office of Acquisition Management, "
"<citetitle>Seven Steps to Performance-Based Services "
"Acquisition</citetitle>, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #22</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5317
msgid ""
"But I pressed Alben about how weird it seems that it would have to take a "
"year's work simply to clear rights. No doubt Alben had done this "
"efficiently, but as Peter Drucker has famously quipped, <quote>There is "
"nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at "
"all.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Did it make sense, I "
"asked Alben, that this is the way a new work has to be made?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5331
msgid ""
"For, as he acknowledged, <quote>very few &hellip; have the time and "
"resources, and the will to do this,</quote> and thus, very few such works "
"would ever be made. Does it make sense, I asked him, from the standpoint of "
"what anybody really thought they were ever giving rights for originally, "
"that you would have to go clear rights for these kinds of clips?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5339
msgid ""
"I don't think so. When an actor renders a performance in a movie, he or she "
"gets paid very well. &hellip; And then when 30 seconds of that performance "
"is used in a new product that is a retrospective of somebody's career, I "
"don't think that that person &hellip; should be compensated for that."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5347
msgid ""
"Or at least, is this <emphasis>how</emphasis> the artist should be "
"compensated? Would it make sense, I asked, for there to be some kind of "
"statutory license that someone could pay and be free to make derivative use "
"of clips like this? Did it really make sense that a follow-on creator would "
"have to track down every artist, actor, director, musician, and get explicit "
"permission from each? Wouldn't a lot more be created if the legal part of "
"the creative process could be made to be more clean?"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 115 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5358
msgid ""
"Absolutely. I think that if there were some fair-licensing "
"mechanism&mdash;where you weren't subject to hold-ups and you weren't "
"subject to estranged former spouses&mdash;you'd see a lot more of this work, "
"because it wouldn't be so daunting to try to put together a retrospective of "
"someone's career and meaningfully illustrate it with lots of media from that "
"person's career. You'd build in a cost as the producer of one of these "
"things. You'd build in a cost of paying X dollars to the talent that "
"performed. But it would be a known cost. That's the thing that trips "
"everybody up and makes this kind of product hard to get off the ground. If "
"you knew I have a hundred minutes of film in this product and it's going to "
"cost me X, then you build your budget around it, and you can get investments "
"and everything else that you need to produce it. But if you say, <quote>Oh, "
"I want a hundred minutes of something and I have no idea what it's going to "
"cost me, and a certain number of people are going to hold me up for "
"money,</quote> then it becomes difficult to put one of these things "
"together."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5378
msgid ""
"Alben worked for a big company. His company was backed by some of the "
"richest investors in the world. He therefore had authority and access that "
"the average Web designer would not have. So if it took him a year, how long "
"would it take someone else? And how much creativity is never made just "
"because the costs of clearing the rights are so high?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5386
msgid ""
"These costs are the burdens of a kind of regulation. Put on a Republican hat "
"for a moment, and get angry for a bit. The government defines the scope of "
"these rights, and the scope defined determines how much it's going to cost "
"to negotiate them. (Remember the idea that land runs to the heavens, and "
"imagine the pilot purchasing flythrough rights as he negotiates to fly from "
"Los Angeles to San Francisco.)  These rights might well have once made "
"sense; but as circumstances change, they make no sense at all. Or at least, "
"a well-trained, regulationminimizing Republican should look at the rights "
"and ask, <quote>Does this still make sense?</quote>"
msgstr ""

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#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5399
msgid ""
"I've seen the flash of recognition when people get this point, but only a "
"few times. The first was at a conference of federal judges in California.  "
"The judges were gathered to discuss the emerging topic of cyber-law. I was "
"asked to be on the panel. Harvey Saferstein, a well-respected lawyer from an "
"L.A. firm, introduced the panel with a video that he and a friend, Robert "
"Fairbank, had produced."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5409
msgid ""
"The video was a brilliant collage of film from every period in the twentieth "
"century, all framed around the idea of a <citetitle>60 Minutes</citetitle> "
"episode.  The execution was perfect, down to the sixty-minute stopwatch. The "
"judges loved every minute of it."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5414
msgid "Nimmer, David"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5416
msgid ""
"When the lights came up, I looked over to my copanelist, David Nimmer, "
"perhaps the leading copyright scholar and practitioner in the nation. He had "
"an astonished look on his face, as he peered across the room of over 250 "
"well-entertained judges. Taking an ominous tone, he began his talk with a "
"question: <quote>Do you know how many federal laws were just violated in "
"this room?</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5423
msgid "Boies, David"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5426
msgid ""
"For of course, the two brilliantly talented creators who made this film "
"hadn't done what Alben did. They hadn't spent a year clearing the rights to "
"these clips; technically, what they had done violated the law.  Of course, "
"it wasn't as if they or anyone were going to be prosecuted for this "
"violation (the presence of 250 judges and a gaggle of federal marshals "
"notwithstanding). But Nimmer was making an important point: A year before "
"anyone would have heard of the word Napster, and two years before another "
"member of our panel, David Boies, would defend Napster before the Ninth "
"Circuit Court of Appeals, Nimmer was trying to get the judges to see that "
"the law would not be friendly to the capacities that this technology would "
"enable. Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you "
"couldn't easily do them legally."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5441
msgid ""
"We live in a <quote>cut and paste</quote> culture enabled by "
"technology. Anyone building a presentation knows the extraordinary freedom "
"that the cut and paste architecture of the Internet created&mdash;in a "
"second you can find just about any image you want; in another second, you "
"can have it planted in your presentation."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5447
msgid "Camp Chaos"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 117 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5449
msgid ""
"But presentations are just a tiny beginning. Using the Internet and its "
"archives, musicians are able to string together mixes of sound never before "
"imagined; filmmakers are able to build movies out of clips on computers "
"around the world. An extraordinary site in Sweden takes images of "
"politicians and blends them with music to create biting political "
"commentary. A site called Camp Chaos has produced some of the most biting "
"criticism of the record industry that there is through the mixing of Flash! "
"and music."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5460
msgid ""
"All of these creations are technically illegal. Even if the creators wanted "
"to be <quote>legal,</quote> the cost of complying with the law is impossibly "
"high. Therefore, for the law-abiding sorts, a wealth of creativity is never "
"made. And for that part that is made, if it doesn't follow the clearance "
"rules, it doesn't get released."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5467
msgid ""
"To some, these stories suggest a solution: Let's alter the mix of rights so "
"that people are free to build upon our culture. Free to add or mix as they "
"see fit. We could even make this change without necessarily requiring that "
"the <quote>free</quote> use be free as in <quote>free beer.</quote> Instead, "
"the system could simply make it easy for follow-on creators to compensate "
"artists without requiring an army of lawyers to come along: a rule, for "
"example, that says <quote>the royalty owed the copyright owner of an "
"unregistered work for the derivative reuse of his work will be a flat 1 "
"percent of net revenues, to be held in escrow for the copyright "
"owner.</quote> Under this rule, the copyright owner could benefit from some "
"royalty, but he would not have the benefit of a full property right (meaning "
"the right to name his own price) unless he registers the work."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5482
msgid ""
"Who could possibly object to this? And what reason would there be for "
"objecting? We're talking about work that is not now being made; which if "
"made, under this plan, would produce new income for artists.  What reason "
"would anyone have to oppose it?"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 118 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5488
msgid ""
"In February 2003, DreamWorks studios announced an agreement with Mike Myers, "
"the comic genius of <citetitle>Saturday Night Live</citetitle> and Austin "
"Powers. According to the announcement, Myers and Dream-Works would work "
"together to form a <quote>unique filmmaking pact.</quote> Under the "
"agreement, DreamWorks <quote>will acquire the rights to existing motion "
"picture hits and classics, write new storylines and&mdash;with the use of "
"stateof-the-art digital technology&mdash;insert Myers and other actors into "
"the film, thereby creating an entirely new piece of entertainment.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5500
msgid ""
"The announcement called this <quote>film sampling.</quote> As Myers "
"explained, <quote>Film Sampling is an exciting way to put an original spin "
"on existing films and allow audiences to see old movies in a new light. Rap "
"artists have been doing this for years with music and now we are able to "
"take that same concept and apply it to film.</quote> Steven Spielberg is "
"quoted as saying, <quote>If anyone can create a way to bring old films to "
"new audiences, it is Mike.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5509
msgid ""
"Spielberg is right. Film sampling by Myers will be brilliant. But if you "
"don't think about it, you might miss the truly astonishing point about this "
"announcement. As the vast majority of our film heritage remains under "
"copyright, the real meaning of the DreamWorks announcement is just this: It "
"is Mike Myers and only Mike Myers who is free to sample. Any general freedom "
"to build upon the film archive of our culture, a freedom in other contexts "
"presumed for us all, is now a privilege reserved for the funny and "
"famous&mdash;and presumably rich."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5519
msgid ""
"This privilege becomes reserved for two sorts of reasons. The first "
"continues the story of the last chapter: the vagueness of <quote>fair "
"use.</quote> Much of <quote>sampling</quote> should be considered "
"<quote>fair use.</quote> But few would rely upon so weak a doctrine to "
"create. That leads to the second reason that the privilege is reserved for "
"the few: The costs of negotiating the legal rights for the creative reuse of "
"content are astronomically high.  These costs mirror the costs with fair "
"use: You either pay a lawyer to defend your fair use rights or pay a lawyer "
"to track down permissions so you don't have to rely upon fair use "
"rights. Either way, the creative process is a process of paying "
"lawyers&mdash;again a privilege, or perhaps a curse, reserved for the few."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
#: freeculture.xml:5534
msgid "CHAPTER NINE: Collectors"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5536 freeculture.xml:8659 freeculture.xml:10870 freeculture.xml:11120
msgid "archives, digital"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5539
msgid ""
"In April 1996, millions of <quote>bots</quote>&mdash;computer codes designed "
"to <quote>spider,</quote> or automatically search the Internet and copy "
"content&mdash;began running across the Net. Page by page, these bots copied "
"Internet-based information onto a small set of computers located in a "
"basement in San Francisco's Presidio. Once the bots finished the whole of "
"the Internet, they started again. Over and over again, once every two "
"months, these bits of code took copies of the Internet and stored them."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5548
msgid ""
"By October 2001, the bots had collected more than five years of copies. And "
"at a small announcement in Berkeley, California, the archive that these "
"copies created, the Internet Archive, was opened to the world. Using a "
"technology called <quote>the Way Back Machine,</quote> you could enter a Web "
"page, and see all of its copies going back to 1996, as well as when those "
"pages changed."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5556
msgid "Orwell, George"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5559
msgid ""
"This is the thing about the Internet that Orwell would have appreciated.  In "
"the dystopia described in <citetitle>1984</citetitle>, old newspapers were "
"constantly updated to assure that the current view of the world, approved of "
"by the government, was not contradicted by previous news reports."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 120 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5567
msgid ""
"Thousands of workers constantly reedited the past, meaning there was no way "
"ever to know whether the story you were reading today was the story that was "
"printed on the date published on the paper."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5572
msgid ""
"It's the same with the Internet. If you go to a Web page today, there's no "
"way for you to know whether the content you are reading is the same as the "
"content you read before. The page may seem the same, but the content could "
"easily be different. The Internet is Orwell's library&mdash;constantly "
"updated, without any reliable memory."
msgstr ""

#.  f1 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5586
msgid ""
"The temptations remain, however. Brewster Kahle reports that the White House "
"changes its own press releases without notice. A May 13, 2003, press release "
"stated, <quote>Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended.</quote> That was later "
"changed, without notice, to <quote>Major Combat Operations in Iraq Have "
"Ended.</quote> E-mail from Brewster Kahle, 1 December 2003."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5580
msgid ""
"Until the Way Back Machine, at least. With the Way Back Machine, and the "
"Internet Archive underlying it, you can see what the Internet was. You have "
"the power to see what you remember. More importantly, perhaps, you also have "
"the power to find what you don't remember and what others might prefer you "
"forget.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5594
msgid ""
"We take it for granted that we can go back to see what we remember "
"reading. Think about newspapers. If you wanted to study the reaction of your "
"hometown newspaper to the race riots in Watts in 1965, or to Bull Connor's "
"water cannon in 1963, you could go to your public library and look at the "
"newspapers. Those papers probably exist on microfiche. If you're lucky, they "
"exist in paper, too. Either way, you are free, using a library, to go back "
"and remember&mdash;not just what it is convenient to remember, but remember "
"something close to the truth."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5605
msgid ""
"It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat "
"it. That's not quite correct. We <emphasis>all</emphasis> forget "
"history. The key is whether we have a way to go back to rediscover what we "
"forget. More directly, the key is whether an objective past can keep us "
"honest. Libraries help do that, by collecting content and keeping it, for "
"schoolchildren, for researchers, for grandma. A free society presumes this "
"knowedge."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 121 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5614
msgid ""
"The Internet was an exception to this presumption. Until the Internet "
"Archive, there was no way to go back. The Internet was the quintessentially "
"transitory medium. And yet, as it becomes more important in forming and "
"reforming society, it becomes more and more important to maintain in some "
"historical form. It's just bizarre to think that we have scads of archives "
"of newspapers from tiny towns around the world, yet there is but one copy of "
"the Internet&mdash;the one kept by the Internet Archive."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5625
msgid ""
"Brewster Kahle is the founder of the Internet Archive. He was a very "
"successful Internet entrepreneur after he was a successful computer "
"researcher.  In the 1990s, Kahle decided he had had enough business "
"success.  It was time to become a different kind of success. So he launched "
"a series of projects designed to archive human knowledge. The Internet "
"Archive was just the first of the projects of this Andrew Carnegie of the "
"Internet. By December of 2002, the archive had over 10 billion pages, and it "
"was growing at about a billion pages a month."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5634
msgid "Vanderbilt University"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5636
msgid ""
"The Way Back Machine is the largest archive of human knowledge in human "
"history. At the end of 2002, it held <quote>two hundred and thirty terabytes "
"of material</quote>&mdash;and was <quote>ten times larger than the Library "
"of Congress.</quote> And this was just the first of the archives that Kahle "
"set out to build. In addition to the Internet Archive, Kahle has been "
"constructing the Television Archive. Television, it turns out, is even more "
"ephemeral than the Internet. While much of twentieth-century culture was "
"constructed through television, only a tiny proportion of that culture is "
"available for anyone to see today. Three hours of news are recorded each "
"evening by Vanderbilt University&mdash;thanks to a specific exemption in the "
"copyright law. That content is indexed, and is available to scholars for a "
"very low fee. <quote>But other than that, [television] is almost "
"unavailable,</quote> Kahle told me. <quote>If you were Barbara Walters you "
"could get access to [the archives], but if you are just a graduate "
"student?</quote> As Kahle put it,"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5653
msgid "Quayle, Dan"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 122 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5655
msgid ""
"Do you remember when Dan Quayle was interacting with Murphy Brown? Remember "
"that back and forth surreal experience of a politician interacting with a "
"fictional television character? If you were a graduate student wanting to "
"study that, and you wanted to get those original back and forth exchanges "
"between the two, the <citetitle>60 Minutes</citetitle> episode that came out "
"after it &hellip; it would be almost impossible. &hellip; Those materials "
"are almost unfindable. &hellip;"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5667
msgid ""
"Why is that? Why is it that the part of our culture that is recorded in "
"newspapers remains perpetually accessible, while the part that is recorded "
"on videotape is not? How is it that we've created a world where researchers "
"trying to understand the effect of media on nineteenthcentury America will "
"have an easier time than researchers trying to understand the effect of "
"media on twentieth-century America?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5675
msgid ""
"In part, this is because of the law. Early in American copyright law, "
"copyright owners were required to deposit copies of their work in "
"libraries.  These copies were intended both to facilitate the spread of "
"knowledge and to assure that a copy of the work would be around once the "
"copyright expired, so that others might access and copy the work."
msgstr ""

#.  f2 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5692
msgid ""
"Doug Herrick, <quote>Toward a National Film Collection: Motion Pictures at "
"the Library of Congress,</quote> <citetitle>Film Library "
"Quarterly</citetitle> 13 nos. 2&ndash;3 (1980): 5; Anthony Slide, "
"<citetitle>Nitrate Won't Wait: A History of Film Preservation in the United "
"States</citetitle> ( Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland &amp; Co., 1992), 36."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5683
msgid ""
"These rules applied to film as well. But in 1915, the Library of Congress "
"made an exception for film. Film could be copyrighted so long as such "
"deposits were made. But the filmmaker was then allowed to borrow back the "
"deposits&mdash;for an unlimited time at no cost. In 1915 alone, there were "
"more than 5,475 films deposited and <quote>borrowed back.</quote> Thus, when "
"the copyrights to films expire, there is no copy held by any library. The "
"copy exists&mdash;if it exists at all&mdash;in the library archive of the "
"film company.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5700
msgid ""
"The same is generally true about television. Television broadcasts were "
"originally not copyrighted&mdash;there was no way to capture the broadcasts, "
"so there was no fear of <quote>theft.</quote> But as technology enabled "
"capturing, broadcasters relied increasingly upon the law. The law required "
"they make a copy of each broadcast for the work to be "
"<quote>copyrighted.</quote> But those copies were simply kept by the "
"broadcasters. No library had any right to them; the government didn't demand "
"them.  The content of this part of American culture is practically invisible "
"to anyone who would look."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 123 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5711
msgid ""
"Kahle was eager to correct this. Before September 11, 2001, he and his "
"allies had started capturing television. They selected twenty stations from "
"around the world and hit the Record button. After September 11, Kahle, "
"working with dozens of others, selected twenty stations from around the "
"world and, beginning October 11, 2001, made their coverage during the week "
"of September 11 available free on-line.  Anyone could see how news reports "
"from around the world covered the events of that day."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5721
msgid "Movie Archive"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5723
msgid "archive.org"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><seealso>
#: freeculture.xml:5724
msgid "Internet Archive"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5727
msgid ""
"Kahle had the same idea with film. Working with Rick Prelinger, whose "
"archive of film includes close to 45,000 <quote>ephemeral films</quote> "
"(meaning films other than Hollywood movies, films that were never "
"copyrighted), Kahle established the Movie Archive. Prelinger let Kahle "
"digitize 1,300 films in this archive and post those films on the Internet to "
"be downloaded for free. Prelinger's is a for-profit company. It sells copies "
"of these films as stock footage. What he has discovered is that after he "
"made a significant chunk available for free, his stock footage sales went up "
"dramatically. People could easily find the material they wanted to use. Some "
"downloaded that material and made films on their own. Others purchased "
"copies to enable other films to be made.  Either way, the archive enabled "
"access to this important part of our culture.  Want to see a copy of the "
"<quote>Duck and Cover</quote> film that instructed children how to save "
"themselves in the middle of nuclear attack? Go to archive.org, and you can "
"download the film in a few minutes&mdash;for free."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5745
msgid ""
"Here again, Kahle is providing access to a part of our culture that we "
"otherwise could not get easily, if at all. It is yet another part of what "
"defines the twentieth century that we have lost to history. The law doesn't "
"require these copies to be kept by anyone, or to be deposited in an archive "
"by anyone. Therefore, there is no simple way to find them."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5753
msgid ""
"The key here is access, not price. Kahle wants to enable free access to this "
"content, but he also wants to enable others to sell access to it. His aim is "
"to ensure competition in access to this important part of our culture.  Not "
"during the commercial life of a bit of creative property, but during a "
"second life that all creative property has&mdash;a noncommercial life."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 124 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5761
msgid ""
"For here is an idea that we should more clearly recognize. Every bit of "
"creative property goes through different <quote>lives.</quote> In its first "
"life, if the creator is lucky, the content is sold. In such cases the "
"commercial market is successful for the creator. The vast majority of "
"creative property doesn't enjoy such success, but some clearly does. For "
"that content, commercial life is extremely important. Without this "
"commercial market, there would be, many argue, much less creativity."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5773
msgid ""
"After the commercial life of creative property has ended, our tradition has "
"always supported a second life as well. A newspaper delivers the news every "
"day to the doorsteps of America. The very next day, it is used to wrap fish "
"or to fill boxes with fragile gifts or to build an archive of knowledge "
"about our history. In this second life, the content can continue to inform "
"even if that information is no longer sold."
msgstr ""

#.  f3 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5785
msgid ""
"Dave Barns, <quote>Fledgling Career in Antique Books: Woodstock Landlord, "
"Bar Owner Starts a New Chapter by Adopting Business,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Chicago Tribune</citetitle>, 5 September 1997, at Metro Lake "
"1L. Of books published between 1927 and 1946, only 2.2 percent were in print "
"in 2002. R. Anthony Reese, <quote>The First Sale Doctrine in the Era of "
"Digital Networks,</quote> <citetitle>Boston College Law Review</citetitle> "
"44 (2003): 593 n. 51."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5782
msgid ""
"The same has always been true about books. A book goes out of print very "
"quickly (the average today is after about a year<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>). After it is out of print, it can be sold in "
"used book stores without the copyright owner getting anything and stored in "
"libraries, where many get to read the book, also for free. Used book stores "
"and libraries are thus the second life of a book. That second life is "
"extremely important to the spread and stability of culture."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5799
msgid ""
"Yet increasingly, any assumption about a stable second life for creative "
"property does not hold true with the most important components of popular "
"culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. For "
"these&mdash;television, movies, music, radio, the Internet&mdash;there is no "
"guarantee of a second life. For these sorts of culture, it is as if we've "
"replaced libraries with Barnes &amp; Noble superstores. With this culture, "
"what's accessible is nothing but what a certain limited market demands.  "
"Beyond that, culture disappears."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 125 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5810
msgid ""
"For most of the twentieth century, it was economics that made this so. It "
"would have been insanely expensive to collect and make accessible all "
"television and film and music: The cost of analog copies is extraordinarily "
"high. So even though the law in principle would have restricted the ability "
"of a Brewster Kahle to copy culture generally, the real restriction was "
"economics. The market made it impossibly difficult to do anything about this "
"ephemeral culture; the law had little practical effect."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5822
msgid ""
"Perhaps the single most important feature of the digital revolution is that "
"for the first time since the Library of Alexandria, it is feasible to "
"imagine constructing archives that hold all culture produced or distributed "
"publicly. Technology makes it possible to imagine an archive of all books "
"published, and increasingly makes it possible to imagine an archive of all "
"moving images and sound."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5830
msgid ""
"The scale of this potential archive is something we've never imagined "
"before. The Brewster Kahles of our history have dreamed about it; but we are "
"for the first time at a point where that dream is possible. As Kahle "
"describes,"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5837
msgid "books"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><indexterm><secondary>
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msgid "total number of"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5841
msgid ""
"It looks like there's about two to three million recordings of music.  "
"Ever. There are about a hundred thousand theatrical releases of movies, "
"&hellip; and about one to two million movies [distributed] during the "
"twentieth century. There are about twenty-six million different titles of "
"books. All of these would fit on computers that would fit in this room and "
"be able to be afforded by a small company.  So we're at a turning point in "
"our history. Universal access is the goal. And the opportunity of leading a "
"different life, based on this, is &hellip; thrilling. It could be one of the "
"things humankind would be most proud of. Up there with the Library of "
"Alexandria, putting a man on the moon, and the invention of the printing "
"press."
msgstr ""

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msgid ""
"Kahle is not the only librarian. The Internet Archive is not the only "
"archive. But Kahle and the Internet Archive suggest what the future of "
"libraries or archives could be. <emphasis>When</emphasis> the commercial "
"life of creative property ends, I don't know. But it does. And whenever it "
"does, Kahle and his archive hint at a world where this knowledge, and "
"culture, remains perpetually available. Some will draw upon it to understand "
"it; some to criticize it. Some will use it, as Walt Disney did, to re-create "
"the past for the future. These technologies promise something that had "
"become unimaginable for much of our past&mdash;a future "
"<emphasis>for</emphasis> our past. The technology of digital arts could make "
"the dream of the Library of Alexandria real again."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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msgid ""
"Technologists have thus removed the economic costs of building such an "
"archive. But lawyers' costs remain. For as much as we might like to call "
"these <quote>archives,</quote> as warm as the idea of a "
"<quote>library</quote> might seem, the <quote>content</quote> that is "
"collected in these digital spaces is also someone's <quote>property.</quote> "
"And the law of property restricts the freedoms that Kahle and others would "
"exercise."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
#: freeculture.xml:5881
msgid "CHAPTER TEN: <quote>Property</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5890
msgid "Johnson, Lyndon"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5891 freeculture.xml:9622
msgid "Kennedy, John F."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5883
msgid ""
"Jack Valenti has been the president of the Motion Picture Association of "
"America since 1966. He first came to Washington, D.C., with Lyndon Johnson's "
"administration&mdash;literally. The famous picture of Johnson's swearing-in "
"on Air Force One after the assassination of President Kennedy has Valenti in "
"the background. In his almost forty years of running the MPAA, Valenti has "
"established himself as perhaps the most prominent and effective lobbyist in "
"Washington.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5904
msgid "Disney, Inc."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5905
msgid "Sony Pictures Entertainment"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5906
msgid "MGM"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5907
msgid "Paramount Pictures"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5908
msgid "Twentieth Century Fox"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5909
msgid "Universal Pictures"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:5910 freeculture.xml:7323
msgid "Warner Brothers"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5894
msgid ""
"The MPAA is the American branch of the international Motion Picture "
"Association. It was formed in 1922 as a trade association whose goal was to "
"defend American movies against increasing domestic criticism.  The "
"organization now represents not only filmmakers but producers and "
"distributors of entertainment for television, video, and cable. Its board is "
"made up of the chairmen and presidents of the seven major producers and "
"distributors of motion picture and television programs in the United States: "
"Walt Disney, Sony Pictures Entertainment, MGM, Paramount Pictures, Twentieth "
"Century Fox, Universal Studios, and Warner Brothers.  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/> "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"2\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"3\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"4\"/> <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"5\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"6\"/>"
msgstr ""

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#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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msgid ""
"Valenti is only the third president of the MPAA. No president before him has "
"had as much influence over that organization, or over Washington. As a "
"Texan, Valenti has mastered the single most important political skill of a "
"Southerner&mdash;the ability to appear simple and slow while hiding a "
"lightning-fast intellect. To this day, Valenti plays the simple, humble "
"man. But this Harvard MBA, and author of four books, who finished high "
"school at the age of fifteen and flew more than fifty combat missions in "
"World War II, is no Mr. Smith. When Valenti went to Washington, he mastered "
"the city in a quintessentially Washingtonian way."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5926
msgid ""
"In defending artistic liberty and the freedom of speech that our culture "
"depends upon, the MPAA has done important good. In crafting the MPAA rating "
"system, it has probably avoided a great deal of speech-regulating harm. But "
"there is an aspect to the organization's mission that is both the most "
"radical and the most important. This is the organization's effort, "
"epitomized in Valenti's every act, to redefine the meaning of "
"<quote>creative property.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5935
msgid "In 1982, Valenti's testimony to Congress captured the strategy perfectly:"
msgstr ""

#.  f1 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5949
msgid ""
"Home Recording of Copyrighted Works: Hearings on H.R. 4783, H.R.  4794, "
"H.R. 4808, H.R. 5250, H.R. 5488, and H.R. 5705 Before the Subcommittee on "
"Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice of the Committee "
"on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives, 97th Cong., 2nd "
"sess. (1982): 65 (testimony of Jack Valenti)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5940
msgid ""
"No matter the lengthy arguments made, no matter the charges and the "
"counter-charges, no matter the tumult and the shouting, reasonable men and "
"women will keep returning to the fundamental issue, the central theme which "
"animates this entire debate: <emphasis>Creative property owners must be "
"accorded the same rights and protection resident in all other property "
"owners in the nation</emphasis>. That is the issue.  That is the "
"question. And that is the rostrum on which this entire hearing and the "
"debates to follow must rest.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

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#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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msgid ""
"The strategy of this rhetoric, like the strategy of most of Valenti's "
"rhetoric, is brilliant and simple and brilliant because simple. The "
"<quote>central theme</quote> to which <quote>reasonable men and "
"women</quote> will return is this: <quote>Creative property owners must be "
"accorded the same rights and protections resident in all other property "
"owners in the nation.</quote> There are no second-class citizens, Valenti "
"might have continued. There should be no second-class property owners."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5970
msgid ""
"This claim has an obvious and powerful intuitive pull. It is stated with "
"such clarity as to make the idea as obvious as the notion that we use "
"elections to pick presidents. But in fact, there is no more extreme a claim "
"made by <emphasis>anyone</emphasis> who is serious in this debate than this "
"claim of Valenti's. Jack Valenti, however sweet and however brilliant, is "
"perhaps the nation's foremost extremist when it comes to the nature and "
"scope of <quote>creative property.</quote> His views have "
"<emphasis>no</emphasis> reasonable connection to our actual legal tradition, "
"even if the subtle pull of his Texan charm has slowly redefined that "
"tradition, at least in Washington."
msgstr ""

#.  f2 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5985
msgid ""
"Lawyers speak of <quote>property</quote> not as an absolute thing, but as a "
"bundle of rights that are sometimes associated with a particular "
"object. Thus, my <quote>property right</quote> to my car gives me the right "
"to exclusive use, but not the right to drive at 150 miles an hour. For the "
"best effort to connect the ordinary meaning of <quote>property</quote> to "
"<quote>lawyer talk,</quote> see Bruce Ackerman, <citetitle>Private Property "
"and the Constitution</citetitle> (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977), "
"26&ndash;27."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:5982
msgid ""
"While <quote>creative property</quote> is certainly <quote>property</quote> "
"in a nerdy and precise sense that lawyers are trained to "
"understand,<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> it has never been the "
"case, nor should it be, that <quote>creative property owners</quote> have "
"been <quote>accorded the same rights and protection resident in all other "
"property owners.</quote> Indeed, if creative property owners were given the "
"same rights as all other property owners, that would effect a radical, and "
"radically undesirable, change in our tradition."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6000
msgid ""
"Valenti knows this. But he speaks for an industry that cares squat for our "
"tradition and the values it represents. He speaks for an industry that is "
"instead fighting to restore the tradition that the British overturned in "
"1710. In the world that Valenti's changes would create, a powerful few would "
"exercise powerful control over how our creative culture would develop."
msgstr ""

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#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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msgid ""
"I have two purposes in this chapter. The first is to convince you that, "
"historically, Valenti's claim is absolutely wrong. The second is to convince "
"you that it would be terribly wrong for us to reject our history.  We have "
"always treated rights in creative property differently from the rights "
"resident in all other property owners. They have never been the same. And "
"they should never be the same, because, however counterintuitive this may "
"seem, to make them the same would be to fundamentally weaken the opportunity "
"for new creators to create.  Creativity depends upon the owners of "
"creativity having less than perfect control."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6023
msgid ""
"Organizations such as the MPAA, whose board includes the most powerful of "
"the old guard, have little interest, their rhetoric notwithstanding, in "
"assuring that the new can displace them. No organization does. No person "
"does. (Ask me about tenure, for example.)  But what's good for the MPAA is "
"not necessarily good for America. A society that defends the ideals of free "
"culture must preserve precisely the opportunity for new creativity to "
"threaten the old.  To get just a hint that there is something fundamentally "
"wrong in Valenti's argument, we need look no further than the United States "
"Constitution itself."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6035
msgid ""
"The framers of our Constitution loved <quote>property.</quote> Indeed, so "
"strongly did they love property that they built into the Constitution an "
"important requirement. If the government takes your property&mdash;if it "
"condemns your house, or acquires a slice of land from your farm&mdash;it is "
"required, under the Fifth Amendment's <quote>Takings Clause,</quote> to pay "
"you <quote>just compensation</quote> for that taking. The Constitution thus "
"guarantees that property is, in a certain sense, sacred. It cannot "
"<emphasis>ever</emphasis> be taken from the property owner unless the "
"government pays for the privilege."
msgstr ""

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#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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msgid ""
"Yet the very same Constitution speaks very differently about what Valenti "
"calls <quote>creative property.</quote> In the clause granting Congress the "
"power to create <quote>creative property,</quote> the Constitution "
"<emphasis>requires</emphasis> that after a <quote>limited time,</quote> "
"Congress take back the rights that it has granted and set the "
"<quote>creative property</quote> free to the public domain. Yet when "
"Congress does this, when the expiration of a copyright term "
"<quote>takes</quote> your copyright and turns it over to the public domain, "
"Congress does not have any obligation to pay <quote>just "
"compensation</quote> for this <quote>taking.</quote> Instead, the same "
"Constitution that requires compensation for your land requires that you lose "
"your <quote>creative property</quote> right without any compensation at all."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6061
msgid ""
"The Constitution thus on its face states that these two forms of property "
"are not to be accorded the same rights. They are plainly to be treated "
"differently. Valenti is therefore not just asking for a change in our "
"tradition when he argues that creative-property owners should be accorded "
"the same rights as every other property-right owner. He is effectively "
"arguing for a change in our Constitution itself."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6070
msgid ""
"Arguing for a change in our Constitution is not necessarily wrong.  There "
"was much in our original Constitution that was plainly wrong.  The "
"Constitution of 1789 entrenched slavery; it left senators to be appointed "
"rather than elected; it made it possible for the electoral college to "
"produce a tie between the president and his own vice president (as it did in "
"1800). The framers were no doubt extraordinary, but I would be the first to "
"admit that they made big mistakes. We have since rejected some of those "
"mistakes; no doubt there could be others that we should reject as well. So "
"my argument is not simply that because Jefferson did it, we should, too."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6082
msgid ""
"Instead, my argument is that because Jefferson did it, we should at least "
"try to understand <emphasis>why</emphasis>. Why did the framers, fanatical "
"property types that they were, reject the claim that creative property be "
"given the same rights as all other property? Why did they require that for "
"creative property there must be a public domain?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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msgid ""
"To answer this question, we need to get some perspective on the history of "
"these <quote>creative property</quote> rights, and the control that they "
"enabled.  Once we see clearly how differently these rights have been "
"defined, we will be in a better position to ask the question that should be "
"at the core of this war: Not <emphasis>whether</emphasis> creative property "
"should be protected, but how. Not <emphasis>whether</emphasis> we will "
"enforce the rights the law gives to creative-property owners, but what the "
"particular mix of rights ought to be. Not <emphasis>whether</emphasis> "
"artists should be paid, but whether institutions designed to assure that "
"artists get paid need also control how culture develops."
msgstr ""

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#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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msgid ""
"To answer these questions, we need a more general way to talk about how "
"property is protected. More precisely, we need a more general way than the "
"narrow language of the law allows. In <citetitle>Code and Other Laws of "
"Cyberspace</citetitle>, I used a simple model to capture this more general "
"perspective. For any particular right or regulation, this model asks how "
"four different modalities of regulation interact to support or weaken the "
"right or regulation. I represented it with this diagram:"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><figure><title>
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msgid ""
"How four different modalities of regulation interact to support or weaken "
"the right or regulation."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure>
#: freeculture.xml:6115 freeculture.xml:6301 freeculture.xml:6609
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1331.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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msgid ""
"At the center of this picture is a regulated dot: the individual or group "
"that is the target of regulation, or the holder of a right. (In each case "
"throughout, we can describe this either as regulation or as a right.  For "
"simplicity's sake, I will speak only of regulations.)  The ovals represent "
"four ways in which the individual or group might be regulated&mdash; either "
"constrained or, alternatively, enabled. Law is the most obvious constraint "
"(to lawyers, at least). It constrains by threatening punishments after the "
"fact if the rules set in advance are violated. So if, for example, you "
"willfully infringe Madonna's copyright by copying a song from her latest CD "
"and posting it on the Web, you can be punished with a $150,000 fine. The "
"fine is an ex post punishment for violating an ex ante rule. It is imposed "
"by the state.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
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msgid "norms, regulatory influence of"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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msgid ""
"Norms are a different kind of constraint. They, too, punish an individual "
"for violating a rule. But the punishment of a norm is imposed by a "
"community, not (or not only) by the state. There may be no law against "
"spitting, but that doesn't mean you won't be punished if you spit on the "
"ground while standing in line at a movie. The punishment might not be harsh, "
"though depending upon the community, it could easily be more harsh than many "
"of the punishments imposed by the state. The mark of the difference is not "
"the severity of the rule, but the source of the enforcement."
msgstr ""

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msgid "market constraints"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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msgid ""
"The market is a third type of constraint. Its constraint is effected through "
"conditions: You can do X if you pay Y; you'll be paid M if you do N. These "
"constraints are obviously not independent of law or norms&mdash;it is "
"property law that defines what must be bought if it is to be taken legally; "
"it is norms that say what is appropriately sold. But given a set of norms, "
"and a background of property and contract law, the market imposes a "
"simultaneous constraint upon how an individual or group might behave."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:6157 freeculture.xml:6193 freeculture.xml:6242 freeculture.xml:6283
msgid "architecture, constraint effected through"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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msgid ""
"Finally, and for the moment, perhaps, most mysteriously, "
"<quote>architecture</quote>&mdash;the physical world as one finds "
"it&mdash;is a constraint on behavior.  A fallen bridge might constrain your "
"ability to get across a river. Railroad tracks might constrain the ability "
"of a community to integrate its social life. As with the market, "
"architecture does not effect its constraint through ex post "
"punishments. Instead, also as with the market, architecture effects its "
"constraint through simultaneous conditions. These conditions are imposed not "
"by courts enforcing contracts, or by police punishing theft, but by nature, "
"by <quote>architecture.</quote> If a 500-pound boulder blocks your way, it "
"is the law of gravity that enforces this constraint. If a $500 airplane "
"ticket stands between you and a flight to New York, it is the market that "
"enforces this constraint."
msgstr ""

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msgid ""
"So the first point about these four modalities of regulation is obvious: "
"They interact. Restrictions imposed by one might be reinforced by "
"another. Or restrictions imposed by one might be undermined by another."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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msgid ""
"The second point follows directly: If we want to understand the effective "
"freedom that anyone has at a given moment to do any particular thing, we "
"have to consider how these four modalities interact.  Whether or not there "
"are other constraints (there may well be; my claim is not about "
"comprehensiveness), these four are among the most significant, and any "
"regulator (whether controlling or freeing)  must consider how these four in "
"particular interact."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:6191
msgid "driving speed, constraints on"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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msgid ""
"So, for example, consider the <quote>freedom</quote> to drive a car at a "
"high speed. That freedom is in part restricted by laws: speed limits that "
"say how fast you can drive in particular places at particular times. It is "
"in part restricted by architecture: speed bumps, for example, slow most "
"rational drivers; governors in buses, as another example, set the maximum "
"rate at which the driver can drive. The freedom is in part restricted by the "
"market: Fuel efficiency drops as speed increases, thus the price of gasoline "
"indirectly constrains speed. And finally, the norms of a community may or "
"may not constrain the freedom to speed. Drive at 50 mph by a school in your "
"own neighborhood and you're likely to be punished by the neighbors. The same "
"norm wouldn't be as effective in a different town, or at night."
msgstr ""

#.  f3 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
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msgid ""
"By describing the way law affects the other three modalities, I don't mean "
"to suggest that the other three don't affect law. Obviously, they do. Law's "
"only distinction is that it alone speaks as if it has a right "
"self-consciously to change the other three. The right of the other three is "
"more timidly expressed.  See Lawrence Lessig, <citetitle>Code: And Other "
"Laws of Cyberspace</citetitle> (New York: Basic Books, 1999): 90&ndash;95; "
"Lawrence Lessig, <quote>The New Chicago School,</quote> <citetitle>Journal "
"of Legal Studies</citetitle>, June 1998."
msgstr ""

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#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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msgid ""
"The final point about this simple model should also be fairly clear: While "
"these four modalities are analytically independent, law has a special role "
"in affecting the three.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> The law, in "
"other words, sometimes operates to increase or decrease the constraint of a "
"particular modality.  Thus, the law might be used to increase taxes on "
"gasoline, so as to increase the incentives to drive more slowly. The law "
"might be used to mandate more speed bumps, so as to increase the difficulty "
"of driving rapidly. The law might be used to fund ads that stigmatize "
"reckless driving. Or the law might be used to require that other laws be "
"more strict&mdash;a federal requirement that states decrease the speed "
"limit, for example&mdash;so as to decrease the attractiveness of fast "
"driving."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><figure><title>
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msgid "Law has a special role in affecting the three."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><figure>
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msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1361.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:6281
msgid "Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:6282
msgid "Commons, John R."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
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msgid ""
"Some people object to this way of talking about <quote>liberty.</quote> They "
"object because their focus when considering the constraints that exist at "
"any particular moment are constraints imposed exclusively by the "
"government. For instance, if a storm destroys a bridge, these people think "
"it is meaningless to say that one's liberty has been restrained. A bridge "
"has washed out, and it's harder to get from one place to another. To talk "
"about this as a loss of freedom, they say, is to confuse the stuff of "
"politics with the vagaries of ordinary life.  I don't mean to deny the value "
"in this narrower view, which depends upon the context of the inquiry. I do, "
"however, mean to argue against any insistence that this narrower view is the "
"only proper view of liberty. As I argued in <citetitle>Code</citetitle>, we "
"come from a long tradition of political thought with a broader focus than "
"the narrow question of what the government did when.  John Stuart Mill "
"defended freedom of speech, for example, from the tyranny of narrow minds, "
"not from the fear of government prosecution; John Stuart Mill, <citetitle>On "
"Liberty</citetitle> (Indiana: Hackett Publishing Co., 1978), 19.  John "
"R. Commons famously defended the economic freedom of labor from constraints "
"imposed by the market; John R. Commons, <quote>The Right to Work,</quote> in "
"Malcom Rutherford and Warren J. Samuels, eds., <citetitle>John R. Commons: "
"Selected Essays</citetitle> (London: Routledge: 1997), 62. The Americans "
"with Disabilities Act increases the liberty of people with physical "
"disabilities by changing the architecture of certain public places, thereby "
"making access to those places easier; 42 <citetitle>United States "
"Code</citetitle>, section 12101 (2000).  Each of these interventions to "
"change existing conditions changes the liberty of a particular group. The "
"effect of those interventions should be accounted for in order to understand "
"the effective liberty that each of these groups might face.  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/> "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"2\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"3\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6244
msgid ""
"These constraints can thus change, and they can be changed. To understand "
"the effective protection of liberty or protection of property at any "
"particular moment, we must track these changes over time. A restriction "
"imposed by one modality might be erased by another. A freedom enabled by one "
"modality might be displaced by another.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:6288
msgid "Why Hollywood Is Right"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6290
msgid ""
"The most obvious point that this model reveals is just why, or just how, "
"Hollywood is right. The copyright warriors have rallied Congress and the "
"courts to defend copyright. This model helps us see why that rallying makes "
"sense."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6296
msgid "Let's say this is the picture of copyright's regulation before the Internet:"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure><title>
#: freeculture.xml:6300 freeculture.xml:6608
msgid "Copyright's regulation before the Internet."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 136 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6307
msgid ""
"There is balance between law, norms, market, and architecture. The law "
"limits the ability to copy and share content, by imposing penalties on those "
"who copy and share content. Those penalties are reinforced by technologies "
"that make it hard to copy and share content (architecture) and expensive to "
"copy and share content (market). Finally, those penalties are mitigated by "
"norms we all recognize&mdash;kids, for example, taping other kids' "
"records. These uses of copyrighted material may well be infringement, but "
"the norms of our society (before the Internet, at least) had no problem with "
"this form of infringement."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6319
msgid ""
"Enter the Internet, or, more precisely, technologies such as MP3s and p2p "
"sharing. Now the constraint of architecture changes dramatically, as does "
"the constraint of the market. And as both the market and architecture relax "
"the regulation of copyright, norms pile on. The happy balance (for the "
"warriors, at least) of life before the Internet becomes an effective state "
"of anarchy after the Internet."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 137 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6327
msgid ""
"Thus the sense of, and justification for, the warriors' response.  "
"Technology has changed, the warriors say, and the effect of this change, "
"when ramified through the market and norms, is that a balance of protection "
"for the copyright owners' rights has been lost. This is Iraq after the fall "
"of Saddam, but this time no government is justifying the looting that "
"results."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure><title>
#: freeculture.xml:6337
msgid "effective state of anarchy after the Internet."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure>
#: freeculture.xml:6338
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1381.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6341
msgid ""
"Neither this analysis nor the conclusions that follow are new to the "
"warriors. Indeed, in a <quote>White Paper</quote> prepared by the Commerce "
"Department (one heavily influenced by the copyright warriors) in 1995, this "
"mix of regulatory modalities had already been identified and the strategy to "
"respond already mapped. In response to the changes the Internet had "
"effected, the White Paper argued (1) Congress should strengthen intellectual "
"property law, (2) businesses should adopt innovative marketing techniques, "
"(3) technologists should push to develop code to protect copyrighted "
"material, and (4) educators should educate kids to better protect copyright."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:6352
msgid "steel industry"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 138 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6354
msgid ""
"This mixed strategy is just what copyright needed&mdash;if it was to "
"preserve the particular balance that existed before the change induced by "
"the Internet. And it's just what we should expect the content industry to "
"push for. It is as American as apple pie to consider the happy life you have "
"as an entitlement, and to look to the law to protect it if something comes "
"along to change that happy life. Homeowners living in a flood plain have no "
"hesitation appealing to the government to rebuild (and rebuild again) when a "
"flood (architecture) wipes away their property (law). Farmers have no "
"hesitation appealing to the government to bail them out when a virus "
"(architecture) devastates their crop. Unions have no hesitation appealing to "
"the government to bail them out when imports (market) wipe out the "
"U.S. steel industry."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6371
msgid ""
"Thus, there's nothing wrong or surprising in the content industry's campaign "
"to protect itself from the harmful consequences of a technological "
"innovation. And I would be the last person to argue that the changing "
"technology of the Internet has not had a profound effect on the content "
"industry's way of doing business, or as John Seely Brown describes it, its "
"<quote>architecture of revenue.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:6378
msgid "railroad industry"
msgstr ""

#.  f5 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6389
msgid ""
"See Geoffrey Smith, <quote>Film vs. Digital: Can Kodak Build a "
"Bridge?</quote> BusinessWeek online, 2 August 1999, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #23</ulink>. For a more recent "
"analysis of Kodak's place in the market, see Chana R. Schoenberger, "
"<quote>Can Kodak Make Up for Lost Moments?</quote> Forbes.com, 6 October "
"2003, available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link "
"#24</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6381
msgid ""
"But just because a particular interest asks for government support, it "
"doesn't follow that support should be granted. And just because technology "
"has weakened a particular way of doing business, it doesn't follow that the "
"government should intervene to support that old way of doing "
"business. Kodak, for example, has lost perhaps as much as 20 percent of "
"their traditional film market to the emerging technologies of digital "
"cameras.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Does anyone believe the "
"government should ban digital cameras just to support Kodak? Highways have "
"weakened the freight business for railroads. Does anyone think we should ban "
"trucks from roads <emphasis>for the purpose of</emphasis> protecting the "
"railroads? Closer to the subject of this book, remote channel changers have "
"weakened the <quote>stickiness</quote> of television advertising (if a "
"boring commercial comes on the TV, the remote makes it easy to surf ), and "
"it may well be that this change has weakened the television advertising "
"market. But does anyone believe we should regulate remotes to reinforce "
"commercial television? (Maybe by limiting them to function only once a "
"second, or to switch to only ten channels within an hour?)"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:6410 freeculture.xml:14697
msgid "Brezhnev, Leonid"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:6411 freeculture.xml:12959
msgid "Gates, Bill"
msgstr ""

#.  f6 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6423
msgid ""
"Fred Warshofsky, <citetitle>The Patent Wars</citetitle> (New York: Wiley, "
"1994), 170&ndash;71."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6413
msgid ""
"The obvious answer to these obviously rhetorical questions is no.  In a free "
"society, with a free market, supported by free enterprise and free trade, "
"the government's role is not to support one way of doing business against "
"others. Its role is not to pick winners and protect them against loss. If "
"the government did this generally, then we would never have any progress. As "
"Microsoft chairman Bill Gates wrote in 1991, in a memo criticizing software "
"patents, <quote>established companies have an interest in excluding future "
"competitors.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> And relative "
"to a startup, established companies also have the means. (Think RCA and FM "
"radio.) A world in which competitors with new ideas must fight not only the "
"market but also the government is a world in which competitors with new "
"ideas will not succeed. It is a world of stasis and increasingly "
"concentrated stagnation. It is the Soviet Union under Brezhnev."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6434
msgid ""
"Thus, while it is understandable for industries threatened with new "
"technologies that change the way they do business to look to the government "
"for protection, it is the special duty of policy makers to guarantee that "
"that protection not become a deterrent to progress. It is the duty of policy "
"makers, in other words, to assure that the changes they create, in response "
"to the request of those hurt by changing technology, are changes that "
"preserve the incentives and opportunities for innovation and change."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6444
msgid ""
"In the context of laws regulating speech&mdash;which include, obviously, "
"copyright law&mdash;that duty is even stronger. When the industry "
"complaining about changing technologies is asking Congress to respond in a "
"way that burdens speech and creativity, policy makers should be especially "
"wary of the request. It is always a bad deal for the government to get into "
"the business of regulating speech markets. The risks and dangers of that "
"game are precisely why our framers created the First Amendment to our "
"Constitution: <quote>Congress shall make no law &hellip; abridging the "
"freedom of speech.</quote> So when Congress is being asked to pass laws that "
"would <quote>abridge</quote> the freedom of speech, it should ask&mdash; "
"carefully&mdash;whether such regulation is justified."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 140 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6458
msgid ""
"My argument just now, however, has nothing to do with whether the changes "
"that are being pushed by the copyright warriors are "
"<quote>justified.</quote> My argument is about their effect. For before we "
"get to the question of justification, a hard question that depends a great "
"deal upon your values, we should first ask whether we understand the effect "
"of the changes the content industry wants."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6467
msgid "Here's the metaphor that will capture the argument to follow."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:6470
msgid "DDT"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:6478
msgid "Müller, Paul Hermann"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6473
msgid ""
"In 1873, the chemical DDT was first synthesized. In 1948, Swiss chemist Paul "
"Hermann Müller won the Nobel Prize for his work demonstrating the "
"insecticidal properties of DDT. By the 1950s, the insecticide was widely "
"used around the world to kill disease-carrying pests. It was also used to "
"increase farm production.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6481
msgid ""
"No one doubts that killing disease-carrying pests or increasing crop "
"production is a good thing. No one doubts that the work of Müller was "
"important and valuable and probably saved lives, possibly millions."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:6485
msgid "Carson, Rachel"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:6486
msgid "Silent Sprint (Carson)"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6488
msgid ""
"But in 1962, Rachel Carson published <citetitle>Silent Spring</citetitle>, "
"which argued that DDT, whatever its primary benefits, was also having "
"unintended environmental consequences. Birds were losing the ability to "
"reproduce.  Whole chains of the ecology were being destroyed."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6494
msgid ""
"No one set out to destroy the environment. Paul Müller certainly did not aim "
"to harm any birds. But the effort to solve one set of problems produced "
"another set which, in the view of some, was far worse than the problems that "
"were originally attacked. Or more accurately, the problems DDT caused were "
"worse than the problems it solved, at least when considering the other, more "
"environmentally friendly ways to solve the problems that DDT was meant to "
"solve."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:6502
msgid "Boyle, James"
msgstr ""

#.  f7 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6508
msgid ""
"See, for example, James Boyle, <quote>A Politics of Intellectual Property: "
"Environmentalism for the Net?</quote> <citetitle>Duke Law "
"Journal</citetitle> 47 (1997): 87."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 141 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6504
msgid ""
"It is to this image precisely that Duke University law professor James Boyle "
"appeals when he argues that we need an <quote>environmentalism</quote> for "
"culture.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> His point, and the point I "
"want to develop in the balance of this chapter, is not that the aims of "
"copyright are flawed. Or that authors should not be paid for their work. Or "
"that music should be given away <quote>for free.</quote> The point is that "
"some of the ways in which we might protect authors will have unintended "
"consequences for the cultural environment, much like DDT had for the natural "
"environment. And just as criticism of DDT is not an endorsement of malaria "
"or an attack on farmers, so, too, is criticism of one particular set of "
"regulations protecting copyright not an endorsement of anarchy or an attack "
"on authors.  It is an environment of creativity that we seek, and we should "
"be aware of our actions' effects on the environment."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6525
msgid ""
"My argument, in the balance of this chapter, tries to map exactly this "
"effect. No doubt the technology of the Internet has had a dramatic effect on "
"the ability of copyright owners to protect their content. But there should "
"also be little doubt that when you add together the changes in copyright law "
"over time, plus the change in technology that the Internet is undergoing "
"just now, the net effect of these changes will not be only that copyrighted "
"work is effectively protected. Also, and generally missed, the net effect of "
"this massive increase in protection will be devastating to the environment "
"for creativity."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6536
msgid ""
"In a line: To kill a gnat, we are spraying DDT with consequences for free "
"culture that will be far more devastating than that this gnat will be lost."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:6543
msgid "Beginnings"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6545
msgid ""
"America copied English copyright law. Actually, we copied and improved "
"English copyright law. Our Constitution makes the purpose of <quote>creative "
"property</quote> rights clear; its express limitations reinforce the English "
"aim to avoid overly powerful publishers."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6551
msgid ""
"The power to establish <quote>creative property</quote> rights is granted to "
"Congress in a way that, for our Constitution, at least, is very odd. Article "
"I, section 8, clause 8 of our Constitution states that:"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 142 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6556
msgid ""
"Congress has the power to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, "
"by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right "
"to their respective Writings and Discoveries.  We can call this the "
"<quote>Progress Clause,</quote> for notice what this clause does not say. It "
"does not say Congress has the power to grant <quote>creative property "
"rights.</quote> It says that Congress has the power <emphasis>to promote "
"progress</emphasis>. The grant of power is its purpose, and its purpose is a "
"public one, not the purpose of enriching publishers, nor even primarily the "
"purpose of rewarding authors."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6569
msgid ""
"The Progress Clause expressly limits the term of copyrights. As we saw in "
"chapter <xref xrefstyle=\"select: labelnumber\" linkend=\"founders\"/>, the "
"English limited the term of copyright so as to assure that a few would not "
"exercise disproportionate control over culture by exercising "
"disproportionate control over publishing. We can assume the framers followed "
"the English for a similar purpose. Indeed, unlike the English, the framers "
"reinforced that objective, by requiring that copyrights extend <quote>to "
"Authors</quote> only."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6579
msgid ""
"The design of the Progress Clause reflects something about the "
"Constitution's design in general. To avoid a problem, the framers built "
"structure. To prevent the concentrated power of publishers, they built a "
"structure that kept copyrights away from publishers and kept them short. To "
"prevent the concentrated power of a church, they banned the federal "
"government from establishing a church. To prevent concentrating power in the "
"federal government, they built structures to reinforce the power of the "
"states&mdash;including the Senate, whose members were at the time selected "
"by the states, and an electoral college, also selected by the states, to "
"select the president. In each case, a <emphasis>structure</emphasis> built "
"checks and balances into the constitutional frame, structured to prevent "
"otherwise inevitable concentrations of power."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6594
msgid ""
"I doubt the framers would recognize the regulation we call "
"<quote>copyright</quote> today. The scope of that regulation is far beyond "
"anything they ever considered. To begin to understand what they did, we need "
"to put our <quote>copyright</quote> in context: We need to see how it has "
"changed in the 210 years since they first struck its design."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 143 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6601
msgid ""
"Some of these changes come from the law: some in light of changes in "
"technology, and some in light of changes in technology given a particular "
"concentration of market power. In terms of our model, we started here:"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6612
msgid "We will end here:"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure><title>
#: freeculture.xml:6615
msgid "<quote>Copyright</quote> today."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure>
#: freeculture.xml:6616
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1442.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 144 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6619
msgid "Let me explain how."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:6624
msgid "Law: Duration"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:6640
msgid "Crosskey, William W."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6634
msgid ""
"William W. Crosskey, <citetitle>Politics and the Constitution in the History "
"of the United States</citetitle> (London: Cambridge University Press, 1953), "
"vol. 1, 485&ndash;86: <quote>extinguish[ing], by plain implication of `the "
"supreme Law of the Land,' <emphasis>the perpetual rights which authors had, "
"or were supposed by some to have, under the Common Law</emphasis></quote> "
"(emphasis added).  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6626
msgid ""
"When the first Congress enacted laws to protect creative property, it faced "
"the same uncertainty about the status of creative property that the English "
"had confronted in 1774. Many states had passed laws protecting creative "
"property, and some believed that these laws simply supplemented common law "
"rights that already protected creative authorship.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> This meant that there was no guaranteed public "
"domain in the United States in 1790. If copyrights were protected by the "
"common law, then there was no simple way to know whether a work published in "
"the United States was controlled or free. Just as in England, this lingering "
"uncertainty would make it hard for publishers to rely upon a public domain "
"to reprint and distribute works."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6650
msgid ""
"That uncertainty ended after Congress passed legislation granting "
"copyrights. Because federal law overrides any contrary state law, federal "
"protections for copyrighted works displaced any state law protections.  Just "
"as in England the Statute of Anne eventually meant that the copyrights for "
"all English works expired, a federal statute meant that any state copyrights "
"expired as well."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6658
msgid ""
"In 1790, Congress enacted the first copyright law. It created a federal "
"copyright and secured that copyright for fourteen years. If the author was "
"alive at the end of that fourteen years, then he could opt to renew the "
"copyright for another fourteen years. If he did not renew the copyright, his "
"work passed into the public domain."
msgstr ""

#.  f9 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6673
msgid ""
"Although 13,000 titles were published in the United States from 1790 to "
"1799, only 556 copyright registrations were filed; John Tebbel, <citetitle>A "
"History of Book Publishing in the United States</citetitle>, vol. 1, "
"<citetitle>The Creation of an Industry, 1630&ndash;1865</citetitle> (New "
"York: Bowker, 1972), 141. Of the 21,000 imprints recorded before 1790, only "
"twelve were copyrighted under the 1790 act; William J. Maher, "
"<citetitle>Copyright Term, Retrospective Extension and the Copyright Law of "
"1790 in Historical Context</citetitle>, 7&ndash;10 (2002), available at "
"<ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #25</ulink>.  Thus, the "
"overwhelming majority of works fell immediately into the public domain. Even "
"those works that were copyrighted fell into the public domain quickly, "
"because the term of copyright was short. The initial term of copyright was "
"fourteen years, with the option of renewal for an additional fourteen "
"years. Copyright Act of May 31, 1790, §1, 1 stat. 124."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6665
msgid ""
"While there were many works created in the United States in the first ten "
"years of the Republic, only 5 percent of the works were actually registered "
"under the federal copyright regime. Of all the work created in the United "
"States both before 1790 and from 1790 through 1800, 95 percent immediately "
"passed into the public domain; the balance would pass into the pubic domain "
"within twenty-eight years at most, and more likely within fourteen "
"years.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 145 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6689
msgid ""
"This system of renewal was a crucial part of the American system of "
"copyright. It assured that the maximum terms of copyright would be granted "
"only for works where they were wanted. After the initial term of fourteen "
"years, if it wasn't worth it to an author to renew his copyright, then it "
"wasn't worth it to society to insist on the copyright, either."
msgstr ""

#.  f10 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6704
msgid ""
"Few copyright holders ever chose to renew their copyrights. For instance, of "
"the 25,006 copyrights registered in 1883, only 894 were renewed in 1910. For "
"a year-by-year analysis of copyright renewal rates, see Barbara A. Ringer, "
"<quote>Study No. 31: Renewal of Copyright,</quote> <citetitle>Studies on "
"Copyright</citetitle>, vol. 1 (New York: Practicing Law Institute, 1963), "
"618. For a more recent and comprehensive analysis, see William M. Landes and "
"Richard A.  Posner, <quote>Indefinitely Renewable Copyright,</quote> "
"<citetitle>University of Chicago Law Review</citetitle> 70 (2003): 471, "
"498&ndash;501, and accompanying figures."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6698
msgid ""
"Fourteen years may not seem long to us, but for the vast majority of "
"copyright owners at that time, it was long enough: Only a small minority of "
"them renewed their copyright after fourteen years; the balance allowed their "
"work to pass into the public domain.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  f11 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6719
msgid "See Ringer, ch. 9, n. 2."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6715
msgid ""
"Even today, this structure would make sense. Most creative work has an "
"actual commercial life of just a couple of years. Most books fall out of "
"print after one year.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> When that "
"happens, the used books are traded free of copyright regulation. Thus the "
"books are no longer <emphasis>effectively</emphasis> controlled by "
"copyright. The only practical commercial use of the books at that time is to "
"sell the books as used books; that use&mdash;because it does not involve "
"publication&mdash;is effectively free."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6727
msgid ""
"In the first hundred years of the Republic, the term of copyright was "
"changed once. In 1831, the term was increased from a maximum of 28 years to "
"a maximum of 42 by increasing the initial term of copyright from 14 years to "
"28 years. In the next fifty years of the Republic, the term increased once "
"again. In 1909, Congress extended the renewal term of 14 years to 28 years, "
"setting a maximum term of 56 years."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6735
msgid ""
"Then, beginning in 1962, Congress started a practice that has defined "
"copyright law since. Eleven times in the last forty years, Congress has "
"extended the terms of existing copyrights; twice in those forty years, "
"Congress extended the term of future copyrights. Initially, the extensions "
"of existing copyrights were short, a mere one to two years.  In 1976, "
"Congress extended all existing copyrights by nineteen years.  And in 1998, "
"in the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, Congress extended the term "
"of existing and future copyrights by twenty years."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 146 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6745
msgid ""
"The effect of these extensions is simply to toll, or delay, the passing of "
"works into the public domain. This latest extension means that the public "
"domain will have been tolled for thirty-nine out of fifty-five years, or 70 "
"percent of the time since 1962. Thus, in the twenty years after the Sonny "
"Bono Act, while one million patents will pass into the public domain, zero "
"copyrights will pass into the public domain by virtue of the expiration of a "
"copyright term."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6756
msgid ""
"The effect of these extensions has been exacerbated by another, "
"little-noticed change in the copyright law. Remember I said that the framers "
"established a two-part copyright regime, requiring a copyright owner to "
"renew his copyright after an initial term. The requirement of renewal meant "
"that works that no longer needed copyright protection would pass more "
"quickly into the public domain. The works remaining under protection would "
"be those that had some continuing commercial value."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6766
msgid ""
"The United States abandoned this sensible system in 1976. For all works "
"created after 1978, there was only one copyright term&mdash;the maximum "
"term. For <quote>natural</quote> authors, that term was life plus fifty "
"years. For corporations, the term was seventy-five years. Then, in 1992, "
"Congress abandoned the renewal requirement for all works created before "
"1978. All works still under copyright would be accorded the maximum term "
"then available. After the Sonny Bono Act, that term was ninety-five years."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6776
msgid ""
"This change meant that American law no longer had an automatic way to assure "
"that works that were no longer exploited passed into the public domain. And "
"indeed, after these changes, it is unclear whether it is even possible to "
"put works into the public domain. The public domain is orphaned by these "
"changes in copyright law. Despite the requirement that terms be "
"<quote>limited,</quote> we have no evidence that anything will limit them."
msgstr ""

#.  f12 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6793
msgid ""
"These statistics are understated. Between the years 1910 and 1962 (the first "
"year the renewal term was extended), the average term was never more than "
"thirty-two years, and averaged thirty years. See Landes and Posner, "
"<quote>Indefinitely Renewable Copyright,</quote> loc. cit."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6785
msgid ""
"The effect of these changes on the average duration of copyright is "
"dramatic. In 1973, more than 85 percent of copyright owners failed to renew "
"their copyright. That meant that the average term of copyright in 1973 was "
"just 32.2 years. Because of the elimination of the renewal requirement, the "
"average term of copyright is now the maximum term.  In thirty years, then, "
"the average term has tripled, from 32.2 years to 95 years.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:6802
msgid "Law: Scope"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6804
msgid ""
"The <quote>scope</quote> of a copyright is the range of rights granted by "
"the law.  The scope of American copyright has changed dramatically. Those "
"changes are not necessarily bad. But we should understand the extent of the "
"changes if we're to keep this debate in context."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6810
msgid ""
"In 1790, that scope was very narrow. Copyright covered only <quote>maps, "
"charts, and books.</quote> That means it didn't cover, for example, music or "
"architecture. More significantly, the right granted by a copyright gave the "
"author the exclusive right to <quote>publish</quote> copyrighted works. That "
"means someone else violated the copyright only if he republished the work "
"without the copyright owner's permission. Finally, the right granted by a "
"copyright was an exclusive right to that particular book. The right did not "
"extend to what lawyers call <quote>derivative works.</quote> It would not, "
"therefore, interfere with the right of someone other than the author to "
"translate a copyrighted book, or to adapt the story to a different form "
"(such as a drama based on a published book)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6823
msgid ""
"This, too, has changed dramatically. While the contours of copyright today "
"are extremely hard to describe simply, in general terms, the right covers "
"practically any creative work that is reduced to a tangible form. It covers "
"music as well as architecture, drama as well as computer programs. It gives "
"the copyright owner of that creative work not only the exclusive right to "
"<quote>publish</quote> the work, but also the exclusive right of control "
"over any <quote>copies</quote> of that work. And most significant for our "
"purposes here, the right gives the copyright owner control over not only his "
"or her particular work, but also any <quote>derivative work</quote> that "
"might grow out of the original work. In this way, the right covers more "
"creative work, protects the creative work more broadly, and protects works "
"that are based in a significant way on the initial creative work."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 148 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6838
msgid ""
"At the same time that the scope of copyright has expanded, procedural "
"limitations on the right have been relaxed. I've already described the "
"complete removal of the renewal requirement in 1992. In addition to the "
"renewal requirement, for most of the history of American copyright law, "
"there was a requirement that a work be registered before it could receive "
"the protection of a copyright. There was also a requirement that any "
"copyrighted work be marked either with that famous &copy; or the word "
"<emphasis>copyright</emphasis>. And for most of the history of American "
"copyright law, there was a requirement that works be deposited with the "
"government before a copyright could be secured."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6852
msgid ""
"The reason for the registration requirement was the sensible understanding "
"that for most works, no copyright was required. Again, in the first ten "
"years of the Republic, 95 percent of works eligible for copyright were never "
"copyrighted. Thus, the rule reflected the norm: Most works apparently didn't "
"need copyright, so registration narrowed the regulation of the law to the "
"few that did. The same reasoning justified the requirement that a work be "
"marked as copyrighted&mdash;that way it was easy to know whether a copyright "
"was being claimed. The requirement that works be deposited was to assure "
"that after the copyright expired, there would be a copy of the work "
"somewhere so that it could be copied by others without locating the original "
"author."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6866
msgid ""
"All of these <quote>formalities</quote> were abolished in the American "
"system when we decided to follow European copyright law. There is no "
"requirement that you register a work to get a copyright; the copyright now "
"is automatic; the copyright exists whether or not you mark your work with a "
"&copy;; and the copyright exists whether or not you actually make a copy "
"available for others to copy."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6874
msgid "Consider a practical example to understand the scope of these differences."
msgstr ""

#.  f13 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6885
msgid ""
"See Thomas Bender and David Sampliner, <quote>Poets, Pirates, and the "
"Creation of American Literature,</quote> 29 <citetitle>New York University "
"Journal of International Law and Politics</citetitle> 255 (1997), and James "
"Gilraeth, ed., Federal Copyright Records, 1790&ndash;1800 (U.S. G.P.O., "
"1987)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6878
msgid ""
"If, in 1790, you wrote a book and you were one of the 5 percent who actually "
"copyrighted that book, then the copyright law protected you against another "
"publisher's taking your book and republishing it without your "
"permission. The aim of the act was to regulate publishers so as to prevent "
"that kind of unfair competition. In 1790, there were 174 publishers in the "
"United States.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> The Copyright Act "
"was thus a tiny regulation of a tiny proportion of a tiny part of the "
"creative market in the United States&mdash;publishers."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 149 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6897
msgid ""
"The act left other creators totally unregulated. If I copied your poem by "
"hand, over and over again, as a way to learn it by heart, my act was totally "
"unregulated by the 1790 act. If I took your novel and made a play based upon "
"it, or if I translated it or abridged it, none of those activities were "
"regulated by the original copyright act. These creative activities remained "
"free, while the activities of publishers were restrained."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6906
msgid ""
"Today the story is very different: If you write a book, your book is "
"automatically protected. Indeed, not just your book. Every e-mail, every "
"note to your spouse, every doodle, <emphasis>every</emphasis> creative act "
"that's reduced to a tangible form&mdash;all of this is automatically "
"copyrighted.  There is no need to register or mark your work. The protection "
"follows the creation, not the steps you take to protect it."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6915
msgid ""
"That protection gives you the right (subject to a narrow range of fair use "
"exceptions) to control how others copy the work, whether they copy it to "
"republish it or to share an excerpt."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6920
msgid ""
"That much is the obvious part. Any system of copyright would control "
"competing publishing. But there's a second part to the copyright of today "
"that is not at all obvious. This is the protection of <quote>derivative "
"rights.</quote> If you write a book, no one can make a movie out of your "
"book without permission. No one can translate it without permission.  "
"CliffsNotes can't make an abridgment unless permission is granted. All of "
"these derivative uses of your original work are controlled by the copyright "
"holder. The copyright, in other words, is now not just an exclusive right to "
"your writings, but an exclusive right to your writings and a large "
"proportion of the writings inspired by them."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6934
msgid ""
"It is this derivative right that would seem most bizarre to our framers, "
"though it has become second nature to us. Initially, this expansion was "
"created to deal with obvious evasions of a narrower copyright.  If I write a "
"book, can you change one word and then claim a copyright in a new and "
"different book? Obviously that would make a joke of the copyright, so the "
"law was properly expanded to include those slight modifications as well as "
"the verbatim original work."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6956
msgid ""
"Jonathan Zittrain, <quote>The Copyright Cage,</quote> <citetitle>Legal "
"Affairs</citetitle>, July/August 2003, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #26</ulink>.  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6946
msgid ""
"In preventing that joke, the law created an astonishing power within a free "
"culture&mdash;at least, it's astonishing when you understand that the law "
"applies not just to the commercial publisher but to anyone with a "
"computer. I understand the wrong in duplicating and selling someone else's "
"work. But whatever <emphasis>that</emphasis> wrong is, transforming someone "
"else's work is a different wrong. Some view transformation as no wrong at "
"all&mdash;they believe that our law, as the framers penned it, should not "
"protect derivative rights at all.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
"Whether or not you go that far, it seems plain that whatever wrong is "
"involved is fundamentally different from the wrong of direct piracy."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:6978
msgid "Rubenfeld, Jeb"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6971
msgid ""
"Professor Rubenfeld has presented a powerful constitutional argument about "
"the difference that copyright law should draw (from the perspective of the "
"First Amendment) between mere <quote>copies</quote> and derivative "
"works. See Jed Rubenfeld, <quote>The Freedom of Imagination: Copyright's "
"Constitutionality,</quote> <citetitle>Yale Law Journal</citetitle> 112 "
"(2002): 1&ndash;60 (see especially pp. 53&ndash;59).  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6966
msgid ""
"Yet copyright law treats these two different wrongs in the same way. I can "
"go to court and get an injunction against your pirating my book. I can go to "
"court and get an injunction against your transformative use of my "
"book.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> These two different uses of "
"my creative work are treated the same."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6983
msgid ""
"This again may seem right to you. If I wrote a book, then why should you be "
"able to write a movie that takes my story and makes money from it without "
"paying me or crediting me? Or if Disney creates a creature called "
"<quote>Mickey Mouse,</quote> why should you be able to make Mickey Mouse "
"toys and be the one to trade on the value that Disney originally created?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:6991
msgid ""
"These are good arguments, and, in general, my point is not that the "
"derivative right is unjustified. My aim just now is much narrower: simply to "
"make clear that this expansion is a significant change from the rights "
"originally granted."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:6998
msgid "Law and Architecture: Reach"
msgstr ""

#.  f16 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7005
msgid ""
"This is a simplification of the law, but not much of one. The law certainly "
"regulates more than <quote>copies</quote>&mdash;a public performance of a "
"copyrighted song, for example, is regulated even though performance per se "
"doesn't make a copy; 17 <citetitle>United States Code</citetitle>, section "
"106(4). And it certainly sometimes doesn't regulate a <quote>copy</quote>; "
"17 <citetitle>United States Code</citetitle>, section 112(a). But the "
"presumption under the existing law (which regulates <quote>copies;</quote> "
"17 <citetitle>United States Code</citetitle>, section 102) is that if there "
"is a copy, there is a right."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7000
msgid ""
"Whereas originally the law regulated only publishers, the change in "
"copyright's scope means that the law today regulates publishers, users, and "
"authors. It regulates them because all three are capable of making copies, "
"and the core of the regulation of copyright law is copies.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 151 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7017
msgid ""
"<quote>Copies.</quote> That certainly sounds like the obvious thing for "
"<emphasis>copy</emphasis>right law to regulate. But as with Jack Valenti's "
"argument at the start of this chapter, that <quote>creative property</quote> "
"deserves the <quote>same rights</quote> as all other property, it is the "
"<emphasis>obvious</emphasis> that we need to be most careful about. For "
"while it may be obvious that in the world before the Internet, copies were "
"the obvious trigger for copyright law, upon reflection, it should be obvious "
"that in the world with the Internet, copies should <emphasis>not</emphasis> "
"be the trigger for copyright law. More precisely, they should not "
"<emphasis>always</emphasis> be the trigger for copyright law."
msgstr ""

#.  f17 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7035
msgid ""
"Thus, my argument is not that in each place that copyright law extends, we "
"should repeal it. It is instead that we should have a good argument for its "
"extending where it does, and should not determine its reach on the basis of "
"arbitrary and automatic changes caused by technology."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7030
msgid ""
"This is perhaps the central claim of this book, so let me take this very "
"slowly so that the point is not easily missed. My claim is that the Internet "
"should at least force us to rethink the conditions under which the law of "
"copyright automatically applies,<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
"because it is clear that the current reach of copyright was never "
"contemplated, much less chosen, by the legislators who enacted copyright "
"law."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7046
msgid ""
"We can see this point abstractly by beginning with this largely empty "
"circle."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure><title>
#: freeculture.xml:7050
msgid "All potential uses of a book."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure>
#: freeculture.xml:7051
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1521.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 152 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7055
msgid ""
"Think about a book in real space, and imagine this circle to represent all "
"its potential <emphasis>uses</emphasis>. Most of these uses are unregulated "
"by copyright law, because the uses don't create a copy. If you read a book, "
"that act is not regulated by copyright law. If you give someone the book, "
"that act is not regulated by copyright law. If you resell a book, that act "
"is not regulated (copyright law expressly states that after the first sale "
"of a book, the copyright owner can impose no further conditions on the "
"disposition of the book). If you sleep on the book or use it to hold up a "
"lamp or let your puppy chew it up, those acts are not regulated by copyright "
"law, because those acts do not make a copy."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure><title>
#: freeculture.xml:7068
msgid "Examples of unregulated uses of a book."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure>
#: freeculture.xml:7069
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1531.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7072
msgid ""
"Obviously, however, some uses of a copyrighted book are regulated by "
"copyright law. Republishing the book, for example, makes a copy. It is "
"therefore regulated by copyright law. Indeed, this particular use stands at "
"the core of this circle of possible uses of a copyrighted work. It is the "
"paradigmatic use properly regulated by copyright regulation (see first "
"diagram on next page)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7080
msgid ""
"Finally, there is a tiny sliver of otherwise regulated copying uses that "
"remain unregulated because the law considers these <quote>fair uses.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure><title>
#: freeculture.xml:7085
msgid ""
"Republishing stands at the core of this circle of possible uses of a "
"copyrighted work."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure>
#: freeculture.xml:7086
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1541.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7089
msgid ""
"These are uses that themselves involve copying, but which the law treats as "
"unregulated because public policy demands that they remain unregulated.  You "
"are free to quote from this book, even in a review that is quite negative, "
"without my permission, even though that quoting makes a copy. That copy "
"would ordinarily give the copyright owner the exclusive right to say whether "
"the copy is allowed or not, but the law denies the owner any exclusive right "
"over such <quote>fair uses</quote> for public policy (and possibly First "
"Amendment) reasons."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure><title>
#: freeculture.xml:7099
msgid "Unregulated copying considered <quote>fair uses.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure>
#: freeculture.xml:7100
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1542.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure><title>
#: freeculture.xml:7104
msgid ""
"Uses that before were presumptively unregulated are now presumptively "
"regulated."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure>
#: freeculture.xml:7105
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1551.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 154 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7109
msgid ""
"In real space, then, the possible uses of a book are divided into three "
"sorts: (1) unregulated uses, (2) regulated uses, and (3) regulated uses that "
"are nonetheless deemed <quote>fair</quote> regardless of the copyright "
"owner's views."
msgstr ""

#.  f18 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7117
msgid ""
"I don't mean <quote>nature</quote> in the sense that it couldn't be "
"different, but rather that its present instantiation entails a copy. Optical "
"networks need not make copies of content they transmit, and a digital "
"network could be designed to delete anything it copies so that the same "
"number of copies remain."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7114
msgid ""
"Enter the Internet&mdash;a distributed, digital network where every use of a "
"copyrighted work produces a copy.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
"And because of this single, arbitrary feature of the design of a digital "
"network, the scope of category 1 changes dramatically. Uses that before were "
"presumptively unregulated are now presumptively regulated. No longer is "
"there a set of presumptively unregulated uses that define a freedom "
"associated with a copyrighted work. Instead, each use is now subject to the "
"copyright, because each use also makes a copy&mdash;category 1 gets sucked "
"into category 2. And those who would defend the unregulated uses of "
"copyrighted work must look exclusively to category 3, fair uses, to bear the "
"burden of this shift."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 155 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7135
msgid ""
"So let's be very specific to make this general point clear. Before the "
"Internet, if you purchased a book and read it ten times, there would be no "
"plausible <emphasis>copyright</emphasis>-related argument that the copyright "
"owner could make to control that use of her book. Copyright law would have "
"nothing to say about whether you read the book once, ten times, or every "
"night before you went to bed. None of those instances of "
"use&mdash;reading&mdash; could be regulated by copyright law because none of "
"those uses produced a copy."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7147
msgid ""
"But the same book as an e-book is effectively governed by a different set of "
"rules. Now if the copyright owner says you may read the book only once or "
"only once a month, then <emphasis>copyright law</emphasis> would aid the "
"copyright owner in exercising this degree of control, because of the "
"accidental feature of copyright law that triggers its application upon there "
"being a copy. Now if you read the book ten times and the license says you "
"may read it only five times, then whenever you read the book (or any portion "
"of it) beyond the fifth time, you are making a copy of the book contrary to "
"the copyright owner's wish."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7159
msgid ""
"There are some people who think this makes perfect sense. My aim just now is "
"not to argue about whether it makes sense or not. My aim is only to make "
"clear the change. Once you see this point, a few other points also become "
"clear:"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7165
msgid ""
"First, making category 1 disappear is not anything any policy maker ever "
"intended. Congress did not think through the collapse of the presumptively "
"unregulated uses of copyrighted works. There is no evidence at all that "
"policy makers had this idea in mind when they allowed our policy here to "
"shift. Unregulated uses were an important part of free culture before the "
"Internet."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7173
msgid ""
"Second, this shift is especially troubling in the context of transformative "
"uses of creative content. Again, we can all understand the wrong in "
"commercial piracy. But the law now purports to regulate "
"<emphasis>any</emphasis> transformation you make of creative work using a "
"machine. <quote>Copy and paste</quote> and <quote>cut and paste</quote> "
"become crimes. Tinkering with a story and releasing it to others exposes the "
"tinkerer to at least a requirement of justification.  However troubling the "
"expansion with respect to copying a particular work, it is extraordinarily "
"troubling with respect to transformative uses of creative work."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 156 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7185
msgid ""
"Third, this shift from category 1 to category 2 puts an extraordinary burden "
"on category 3 (<quote>fair use</quote>) that fair use never before had to "
"bear.  If a copyright owner now tried to control how many times I could read "
"a book on-line, the natural response would be to argue that this is a "
"violation of my fair use rights. But there has never been any litigation "
"about whether I have a fair use right to read, because before the Internet, "
"reading did not trigger the application of copyright law and hence the need "
"for a fair use defense. The right to read was effectively protected before "
"because reading was not regulated."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7199
msgid ""
"This point about fair use is totally ignored, even by advocates for free "
"culture. We have been cornered into arguing that our rights depend upon fair "
"use&mdash;never even addressing the earlier question about the expansion in "
"effective regulation. A thin protection grounded in fair use makes sense "
"when the vast majority of uses are <emphasis>unregulated</emphasis>. But "
"when everything becomes presumptively regulated, then the protections of "
"fair use are not enough."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7212
msgid ""
"The case of Video Pipeline is a good example. Video Pipeline was in the "
"business of making <quote>trailer</quote> advertisements for movies "
"available to video stores. The video stores displayed the trailers as a way "
"to sell videos. Video Pipeline got the trailers from the film distributors, "
"put the trailers on tape, and sold the tapes to the retail stores."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7219
msgid ""
"The company did this for about fifteen years. Then, in 1997, it began to "
"think about the Internet as another way to distribute these previews.  The "
"idea was to expand their <quote>selling by sampling</quote> technique by "
"giving on-line stores the same ability to enable <quote>browsing.</quote> "
"Just as in a bookstore you can read a few pages of a book before you buy the "
"book, so, too, you would be able to sample a bit from the movie on-line "
"before you bought it."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 157 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7228
msgid ""
"In 1998, Video Pipeline informed Disney and other film distributors that it "
"intended to distribute the trailers through the Internet (rather than "
"sending the tapes) to distributors of their videos. Two years later, Disney "
"told Video Pipeline to stop. The owner of Video Pipeline asked Disney to "
"talk about the matter&mdash;he had built a business on distributing this "
"content as a way to help sell Disney films; he had customers who depended "
"upon his delivering this content. Disney would agree to talk only if Video "
"Pipeline stopped the distribution immediately.  Video Pipeline thought it "
"was within their <quote>fair use</quote> rights to distribute the clips as "
"they had. So they filed a lawsuit to ask the court to declare that these "
"rights were in fact their rights."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7243
msgid ""
"Disney countersued&mdash;for $100 million in damages. Those damages were "
"predicated upon a claim that Video Pipeline had <quote>willfully "
"infringed</quote> on Disney's copyright. When a court makes a finding of "
"willful infringement, it can award damages not on the basis of the actual "
"harm to the copyright owner, but on the basis of an amount set in the "
"statute. Because Video Pipeline had distributed seven hundred clips of "
"Disney movies to enable video stores to sell copies of those movies, Disney "
"was now suing Video Pipeline for $100 million."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7253
msgid ""
"Disney has the right to control its property, of course. But the video "
"stores that were selling Disney's films also had some sort of right to be "
"able to sell the films that they had bought from Disney. Disney's claim in "
"court was that the stores were allowed to sell the films and they were "
"permitted to list the titles of the films they were selling, but they were "
"not allowed to show clips of the films as a way of selling them without "
"Disney's permission."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7263
msgid ""
"Now, you might think this is a close case, and I think the courts would "
"consider it a close case. My point here is to map the change that gives "
"Disney this power. Before the Internet, Disney couldn't really control how "
"people got access to their content. Once a video was in the marketplace, the "
"<quote>first-sale doctrine</quote> would free the seller to use the video as "
"he wished, including showing portions of it in order to engender sales of "
"the entire movie video. But with the Internet, it becomes possible for "
"Disney to centralize control over access to this content. Because each use "
"of the Internet produces a copy, use on the Internet becomes subject to the "
"copyright owner's control. The technology expands the scope of effective "
"control, because the technology builds a copy into every transaction."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:7276
msgid "Barnes &amp; Noble"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 158 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7279
msgid ""
"No doubt, a potential is not yet an abuse, and so the potential for control "
"is not yet the abuse of control. Barnes &amp; Noble has the right to say you "
"can't touch a book in their store; property law gives them that right.  But "
"the market effectively protects against that abuse. If Barnes &amp; Noble "
"banned browsing, then consumers would choose other bookstores.  Competition "
"protects against the extremes. And it may well be (my argument so far does "
"not even question this) that competition would prevent any similar danger "
"when it comes to copyright. Sure, publishers exercising the rights that "
"authors have assigned to them might try to regulate how many times you read "
"a book, or try to stop you from sharing the book with anyone. But in a "
"competitive market such as the book market, the dangers of this happening "
"are quite slight."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7294
msgid ""
"Again, my aim so far is simply to map the changes that this changed "
"architecture enables. Enabling technology to enforce the control of "
"copyright means that the control of copyright is no longer defined by "
"balanced policy. The control of copyright is simply what private owners "
"choose. In some contexts, at least, that fact is harmless. But in some "
"contexts it is a recipe for disaster."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:7303
msgid "Architecture and Law: Force"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7305
msgid ""
"The disappearance of unregulated uses would be change enough, but a second "
"important change brought about by the Internet magnifies its "
"significance. This second change does not affect the reach of copyright "
"regulation; it affects how such regulation is enforced."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7311
msgid ""
"In the world before digital technology, it was generally the law that "
"controlled whether and how someone was regulated by copyright law.  The law, "
"meaning a court, meaning a judge: In the end, it was a human, trained in the "
"tradition of the law and cognizant of the balances that tradition embraced, "
"who said whether and how the law would restrict your freedom."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:7318
msgid "Casablanca"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:7320 freeculture.xml:7499
msgid "Marx Brothers"
msgstr ""

#.  f19 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7334
msgid ""
"See David Lange, <quote>Recognizing the Public Domain,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Law and Contemporary Problems</citetitle> 44 (1981): "
"172&ndash;73."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7326
msgid ""
"There's a famous story about a battle between the Marx Brothers and Warner "
"Brothers. The Marxes intended to make a parody of "
"<citetitle>Casablanca</citetitle>. Warner Brothers objected. They wrote a "
"nasty letter to the Marxes, warning them that there would be serious legal "
"consequences if they went forward with their plan.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7343
msgid ""
"Ibid. See also Vaidhyanathan, <citetitle>Copyrights and "
"Copywrongs</citetitle>, 1&ndash;3.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7339
msgid ""
"This led the Marx Brothers to respond in kind. They warned Warner Brothers "
"that the Marx Brothers <quote>were brothers long before you "
"were.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> The Marx Brothers "
"therefore owned the word <citetitle>brothers</citetitle>, and if Warner "
"Brothers insisted on trying to control <citetitle>Casablanca</citetitle>, "
"then the Marx Brothers would insist on control over "
"<citetitle>brothers</citetitle>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7353
msgid ""
"An absurd and hollow threat, of course, because Warner Brothers, like the "
"Marx Brothers, knew that no court would ever enforce such a silly "
"claim. This extremism was irrelevant to the real freedoms anyone (including "
"Warner Brothers) enjoyed."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7359
msgid ""
"On the Internet, however, there is no check on silly rules, because on the "
"Internet, increasingly, rules are enforced not by a human but by a machine: "
"Increasingly, the rules of copyright law, as interpreted by the copyright "
"owner, get built into the technology that delivers copyrighted content. It "
"is code, rather than law, that rules. And the problem with code regulations "
"is that, unlike law, code has no shame. Code would not get the humor of the "
"Marx Brothers. The consequence of that is not at all funny."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:7372
msgid "Adobe eBook Reader"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7375
msgid "Consider the life of my Adobe eBook Reader."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7378
msgid ""
"An e-book is a book delivered in electronic form. An Adobe eBook is not a "
"book that Adobe has published; Adobe simply produces the software that "
"publishers use to deliver e-books. It provides the technology, and the "
"publisher delivers the content by using the technology."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7385
msgid "On the next page is a picture of an old version of my Adobe eBook Reader."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 160 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7389
msgid ""
"As you can see, I have a small collection of e-books within this e-book "
"library. Some of these books reproduce content that is in the public domain: "
"<citetitle>Middlemarch</citetitle>, for example, is in the public domain.  "
"Some of them reproduce content that is not in the public domain: My own book "
"<citetitle>The Future of Ideas</citetitle> is not yet within the public "
"domain.  Consider <citetitle>Middlemarch</citetitle> first. If you click on "
"my e-book copy of <citetitle>Middlemarch</citetitle>, you'll see a fancy "
"cover, and then a button at the bottom called Permissions."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure><title>
#: freeculture.xml:7402
msgid "Picture of an old version of Adobe eBook Reader"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure>
#: freeculture.xml:7403
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1611.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7406
msgid ""
"If you click on the Permissions button, you'll see a list of the permissions "
"that the publisher purports to grant with this book."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure><title>
#: freeculture.xml:7410
msgid "List of the permissions that the publisher purports to grant."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure>
#: freeculture.xml:7411
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1612.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 161 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7415
msgid ""
"According to my eBook Reader, I have the permission to copy to the clipboard "
"of the computer ten text selections every ten days. (So far, I've copied no "
"text to the clipboard.)  I also have the permission to print ten pages from "
"the book every ten days. Lastly, I have the permission to use the Read Aloud "
"button to hear <citetitle>Middlemarch</citetitle> read aloud through the "
"computer."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:7425
msgid "Aristotle"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:7426
msgid "<citetitle>Politics</citetitle>, (Aristotle)"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7423
msgid ""
"Here's the e-book for another work in the public domain (including the "
"translation): Aristotle's <citetitle>Politics</citetitle>.  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure><title>
#: freeculture.xml:7429
msgid "E-book of Aristotle;s <quote>Politics</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure>
#: freeculture.xml:7430
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1621.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7433
msgid ""
"According to its permissions, no printing or copying is permitted at "
"all. But fortunately, you can use the Read Aloud button to hear the book."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure><title>
#: freeculture.xml:7438
msgid "List of the permissions for Aristotle;s <quote>Politics</quote>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure>
#: freeculture.xml:7439
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1622.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7442
msgid ""
"Finally (and most embarrassingly), here are the permissions for the original "
"e-book version of my last book, <citetitle>The Future of Ideas</citetitle>:"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure><title>
#: freeculture.xml:7448
msgid "List of the permissions for <quote>The Future of Ideas</quote>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure>
#: freeculture.xml:7449
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1631.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7452
msgid "No copying, no printing, and don't you dare try to listen to this book!"
msgstr ""

#.  f21 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7462
msgid ""
"In principle, a contract might impose a requirement on me. I might, for "
"example, buy a book from you that includes a contract that says I will read "
"it only three times, or that I promise to read it three times. But that "
"obligation (and the limits for creating that obligation) would come from the "
"contract, not from copyright law, and the obligations of contract would not "
"necessarily pass to anyone who subsequently acquired the book."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7455
msgid ""
"Now, the Adobe eBook Reader calls these controls "
"<quote>permissions</quote>&mdash; as if the publisher has the power to "
"control how you use these works.  For works under copyright, the copyright "
"owner certainly does have the power&mdash;up to the limits of the copyright "
"law. But for work not under copyright, there is no such copyright "
"power.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> When my e-book of "
"<citetitle>Middlemarch</citetitle> says I have the permission to copy only "
"ten text selections into the memory every ten days, what that really means "
"is that the eBook Reader has enabled the publisher to control how I use the "
"book on my computer, far beyond the control that the law would enable."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7477
msgid ""
"The control comes instead from the code&mdash;from the technology within "
"which the e-book <quote>lives.</quote> Though the e-book says that these are "
"permissions, they are not the sort of <quote>permissions</quote> that most "
"of us deal with. When a teenager gets <quote>permission</quote> to stay out "
"till midnight, she knows (unless she's Cinderella) that she can stay out "
"till 2 A.M., but will suffer a punishment if she's caught. But when the "
"Adobe eBook Reader says I have the permission to make ten copies of the text "
"into the computer's memory, that means that after I've made ten copies, the "
"computer will not make any more. The same with the printing restrictions: "
"After ten pages, the eBook Reader will not print any more pages.  It's the "
"same with the silly restriction that says that you can't use the Read Aloud "
"button to read my book aloud&mdash;it's not that the company will sue you if "
"you do; instead, if you push the Read Aloud button with my book, the machine "
"simply won't read aloud."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7495
msgid ""
"These are <emphasis>controls</emphasis>, not permissions. Imagine a world "
"where the Marx Brothers sold word processing software that, when you tried "
"to type <quote>Warner Brothers,</quote> erased <quote>Brothers</quote> from "
"the sentence.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7502
msgid ""
"This is the future of copyright law: not so much copyright "
"<emphasis>law</emphasis> as copyright <emphasis>code</emphasis>. The "
"controls over access to content will not be controls that are ratified by "
"courts; the controls over access to content will be controls that are coded "
"by programmers. And whereas the controls that are built into the law are "
"always to be checked by a judge, the controls that are built into the "
"technology have no similar built-in check."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7511
msgid ""
"How significant is this? Isn't it always possible to get around the controls "
"built into the technology? Software used to be sold with technologies that "
"limited the ability of users to copy the software, but those were trivial "
"protections to defeat. Why won't it be trivial to defeat these protections "
"as well?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7518
msgid ""
"We've only scratched the surface of this story. Return to the Adobe eBook "
"Reader."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:7528
msgid "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7522
msgid ""
"Early in the life of the Adobe eBook Reader, Adobe suffered a public "
"relations nightmare. Among the books that you could download for free on the "
"Adobe site was a copy of <citetitle>Alice's Adventures in "
"Wonderland</citetitle>.  This wonderful book is in the public domain. Yet "
"when you clicked on Permissions for that book, you got the following report: "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure><title>
#: freeculture.xml:7531
msgid "List of the permissions for <quote>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</quote>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure>
#: freeculture.xml:7533
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1641.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7537
msgid ""
"Here was a public domain children's book that you were not allowed to copy, "
"not allowed to lend, not allowed to give, and, as the "
"<quote>permissions</quote> indicated, not allowed to <quote>read "
"aloud</quote>!"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7542
msgid ""
"The public relations nightmare attached to that final permission.  For the "
"text did not say that you were not permitted to use the Read Aloud button; "
"it said you did not have the permission to read the book aloud. That led "
"some people to think that Adobe was restricting the right of parents, for "
"example, to read the book to their children, which seemed, to say the least, "
"absurd."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7550
msgid ""
"Adobe responded quickly that it was absurd to think that it was trying to "
"restrict the right to read a book aloud. Obviously it was only restricting "
"the ability to use the Read Aloud button to have the book read aloud. But "
"the question Adobe never did answer is this: Would Adobe thus agree that a "
"consumer was free to use software to hack around the restrictions built into "
"the eBook Reader? If some company (call it Elcomsoft) developed a program to "
"disable the technological protection built into an Adobe eBook so that a "
"blind person, say, could use a computer to read the book aloud, would Adobe "
"agree that such a use of an eBook Reader was fair? Adobe didn't answer "
"because the answer, however absurd it might seem, is no."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7563
msgid ""
"The point is not to blame Adobe. Indeed, Adobe is among the most innovative "
"companies developing strategies to balance open access to content with "
"incentives for companies to innovate. But Adobe's technology enables "
"control, and Adobe has an incentive to defend this control.  That incentive "
"is understandable, yet what it creates is often crazy."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7572
msgid ""
"To see the point in a particularly absurd context, consider a favorite story "
"of mine that makes the same point."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:7576 freeculture.xml:7725 freeculture.xml:7796 freeculture.xml:7902
msgid "Aibo robotic dog"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:7579 freeculture.xml:7728 freeculture.xml:7797 freeculture.xml:7903
msgid "robotic dog"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:7582 freeculture.xml:7731 freeculture.xml:7799 freeculture.xml:7905
msgid "Sony"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><secondary>
#: freeculture.xml:7583 freeculture.xml:7732 freeculture.xml:7800 freeculture.xml:7906
msgid "Aibo robotic dog produced by"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7586
msgid ""
"Consider the robotic dog made by Sony named <quote>Aibo.</quote> The Aibo "
"learns tricks, cuddles, and follows you around. It eats only electricity and "
"that doesn't leave that much of a mess (at least in your house)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7591
msgid ""
"The Aibo is expensive and popular. Fans from around the world have set up "
"clubs to trade stories. One fan in particular set up a Web site to enable "
"information about the Aibo dog to be shared. This fan set <beginpage "
"pagenum=\"165\"/> up aibopet.com (and aibohack.com, but that resolves to the "
"same site), and on that site he provided information about how to teach an "
"Aibo to do tricks in addition to the ones Sony had taught it."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7600
msgid ""
"<quote>Teach</quote> here has a special meaning. Aibos are just cute "
"computers.  You teach a computer how to do something by programming it "
"differently.  So to say that aibopet.com was giving information about how to "
"teach the dog to do new tricks is just to say that aibopet.com was giving "
"information to users of the Aibo pet about how to hack their computer "
"<quote>dog</quote> to make it do new tricks (thus, aibohack.com)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7608
msgid ""
"If you're not a programmer or don't know many programmers, the word "
"<citetitle>hack</citetitle> has a particularly unfriendly "
"connotation. Nonprogrammers hack bushes or weeds. Nonprogrammers in horror "
"movies do even worse. But to programmers, or coders, as I call them, "
"<citetitle>hack</citetitle> is a much more positive "
"term. <citetitle>Hack</citetitle> just means code that enables the program "
"to do something it wasn't originally intended or enabled to do. If you buy a "
"new printer for an old computer, you might find the old computer doesn't "
"run, or <quote>drive,</quote> the printer. If you discovered that, you'd "
"later be happy to discover a hack on the Net by someone who has written a "
"driver to enable the computer to drive the printer you just bought."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7622
msgid ""
"Some hacks are easy. Some are unbelievably hard. Hackers as a community like "
"to challenge themselves and others with increasingly difficult "
"tasks. There's a certain respect that goes with the talent to hack "
"well. There's a well-deserved respect that goes with the talent to hack "
"ethically."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7629
msgid ""
"The Aibo fan was displaying a bit of both when he hacked the program and "
"offered to the world a bit of code that would enable the Aibo to dance "
"jazz. The dog wasn't programmed to dance jazz. It was a clever bit of "
"tinkering that turned the dog into a more talented creature than Sony had "
"built."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 166 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7639
msgid ""
"I've told this story in many contexts, both inside and outside the United "
"States. Once I was asked by a puzzled member of the audience, is it "
"permissible for a dog to dance jazz in the United States? We forget that "
"stories about the backcountry still flow across much of the world. So let's "
"just be clear before we continue: It's not a crime anywhere (anymore) to "
"dance jazz. Nor is it a crime to teach your dog to dance jazz. Nor should it "
"be a crime (though we don't have a lot to go on here) to teach your robot "
"dog to dance jazz. Dancing jazz is a completely legal activity. One imagines "
"that the owner of aibopet.com thought, <emphasis>What possible problem could "
"there be with teaching a robot dog to dance?</emphasis>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7655
msgid ""
"Let's put the dog to sleep for a minute, and turn to a pony show&mdash; not "
"literally a pony show, but rather a paper that a Princeton academic named Ed "
"Felten prepared for a conference. This Princeton academic is well known and "
"respected. He was hired by the government in the Microsoft case to test "
"Microsoft's claims about what could and could not be done with its own "
"code. In that trial, he demonstrated both his brilliance and his "
"coolness. Under heavy badgering by Microsoft lawyers, Ed Felten stood his "
"ground. He was not about to be bullied into being silent about something he "
"knew very well."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:7678 freeculture.xml:10178
msgid "Electronic Frontier Foundation"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7668
msgid ""
"See Pamela Samuelson, <quote>Anticircumvention Rules: Threat to "
"Science,</quote> <citetitle>Science</citetitle> 293 (2001): 2028; Brendan "
"I. Koerner, <quote>Play Dead: Sony Muzzles the Techies Who Teach a Robot Dog "
"New Tricks,</quote> <citetitle>American Prospect</citetitle>, January 2002; "
"<quote>Court Dismisses Computer Scientists' Challenge to DMCA,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Intellectual Property Litigation Reporter</citetitle>, 11 "
"December 2001; Bill Holland, <quote>Copyright Act Raising Free-Speech "
"Concerns,</quote> <citetitle>Billboard</citetitle>, May 2001; Janelle Brown, "
"<quote>Is the RIAA Running Scared?</quote> Salon.com, April 2001; Electronic "
"Frontier Foundation, <quote>Frequently Asked Questions about "
"<citetitle>Felten and USENIX</citetitle> v. <citetitle>RIAA</citetitle> "
"Legal Case,</quote> available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #27</ulink>.  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7666
msgid ""
"But Felten's bravery was really tested in April 2001.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> He and a group of colleagues were working on a "
"paper to be submitted at conference.  The paper was intended to describe the "
"weakness in an encryption system being developed by the Secure Digital Music "
"Initiative as a technique to control the distribution of music."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7686
msgid ""
"The SDMI coalition had as its goal a technology to enable content owners to "
"exercise much better control over their content than the Internet, as it "
"originally stood, granted them. Using encryption, SDMI hoped to develop a "
"standard that would allow the content owner to say <quote>this music cannot "
"be copied,</quote> and have a computer respect that command.  The technology "
"was to be part of a <quote>trusted system</quote> of control that would get "
"content owners to trust the system of the Internet much more."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7696
msgid ""
"When SDMI thought it was close to a standard, it set up a competition.  In "
"exchange for providing contestants with the code to an SDMI-encrypted bit of "
"content, contestants were to try to crack it and, if they did, report the "
"problems to the consortium."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 167 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7703
msgid ""
"Felten and his team figured out the encryption system quickly. He and the "
"team saw the weakness of this system as a type: Many encryption systems "
"would suffer the same weakness, and Felten and his team thought it "
"worthwhile to point this out to those who study encryption."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7709
msgid ""
"Let's review just what Felten was doing. Again, this is the United "
"States. We have a principle of free speech. We have this principle not just "
"because it is the law, but also because it is a really great idea. A "
"strongly protected tradition of free speech is likely to encourage a wide "
"range of criticism. That criticism is likely, in turn, to improve the "
"systems or people or ideas criticized."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7717
msgid ""
"What Felten and his colleagues were doing was publishing a paper describing "
"the weakness in a technology. They were not spreading free music, or "
"building and deploying this technology. The paper was an academic essay, "
"unintelligible to most people. But it clearly showed the weakness in the "
"SDMI system, and why SDMI would not, as presently constituted, succeed."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7735
msgid ""
"What links these two, aibopet.com and Felten, is the letters they then "
"received. Aibopet.com received a letter from Sony about the aibopet.com "
"hack. Though a jazz-dancing dog is perfectly legal, Sony wrote:"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7742
msgid ""
"Your site contains information providing the means to circumvent AIBO-ware's "
"copy protection protocol constituting a violation of the anti-circumvention "
"provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7751
msgid ""
"And though an academic paper describing the weakness in a system of "
"encryption should also be perfectly legal, Felten received a letter from an "
"RIAA lawyer that read:"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 168 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7757
msgid ""
"Any disclosure of information gained from participating in the Public "
"Challenge would be outside the scope of activities permitted by the "
"Agreement and could subject you and your research team to actions under the "
"Digital Millennium Copyright Act (<quote>DMCA</quote>)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7765
msgid ""
"In both cases, this weirdly Orwellian law was invoked to control the spread "
"of information. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act made spreading such "
"information an offense."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7770
msgid ""
"The DMCA was enacted as a response to copyright owners' first fear about "
"cyberspace. The fear was that copyright control was effectively dead; the "
"response was to find technologies that might compensate.  These new "
"technologies would be copyright protection technologies&mdash; technologies "
"to control the replication and distribution of copyrighted material. They "
"were designed as <emphasis>code</emphasis> to modify the original "
"<emphasis>code</emphasis> of the Internet, to reestablish some protection "
"for copyright owners."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7781
msgid ""
"The DMCA was a bit of law intended to back up the protection of this code "
"designed to protect copyrighted material. It was, we could say, "
"<emphasis>legal code</emphasis> intended to buttress <emphasis>software "
"code</emphasis> which itself was intended to support the <emphasis>legal "
"code of copyright</emphasis>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7788
msgid ""
"But the DMCA was not designed merely to protect copyrighted works to the "
"extent copyright law protected them. Its protection, that is, did not end at "
"the line that copyright law drew. The DMCA regulated devices that were "
"designed to circumvent copyright protection measures. It was designed to ban "
"those devices, whether or not the use of the copyrighted material made "
"possible by that circumvention would have been a copyright violation."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 169 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7803
msgid ""
"Aibopet.com and Felten make the point. The Aibo hack circumvented a "
"copyright protection system for the purpose of enabling the dog to dance "
"jazz. That enablement no doubt involved the use of copyrighted material. But "
"as aibopet.com's site was noncommercial, and the use did not enable "
"subsequent copyright infringements, there's no doubt that aibopet.com's hack "
"was fair use of Sony's copyrighted material. Yet fair use is not a defense "
"to the DMCA. The question is not whether the use of the copyrighted material "
"was a copyright violation. The question is whether a copyright protection "
"system was circumvented."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7815
msgid ""
"The threat against Felten was more attenuated, but it followed the same line "
"of reasoning. By publishing a paper describing how a copyright protection "
"system could be circumvented, the RIAA lawyer suggested, Felten himself was "
"distributing a circumvention technology.  Thus, even though he was not "
"himself infringing anyone's copyright, his academic paper was enabling "
"others to infringe others' copyright."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:7822 freeculture.xml:7855
msgid "Rogers, Fred"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:7832 freeculture.xml:7868 freeculture.xml:7900
msgid "Conrad, Paul"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7824
msgid ""
"The bizarreness of these arguments is captured in a cartoon drawn in 1981 by "
"Paul Conrad. At that time, a court in California had held that the VCR could "
"be banned because it was a copyright-infringing technology: It enabled "
"consumers to copy films without the permission of the copyright owner. No "
"doubt there were uses of the technology that were legal: Fred Rogers, aka "
"<quote><citetitle>Mr. Rogers</citetitle>,</quote> for example, had testified "
"in that case that he wanted people to feel free to tape Mr. Rogers' "
"Neighborhood.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7851
msgid ""
"<citetitle>Sony Corporation of America</citetitle> v. <citetitle>Universal "
"City Studios, Inc</citetitle>., 464 U.S. 417, 455 fn. 27 (1984). Rogers "
"never changed his view about the VCR. See James Lardner, <citetitle>Fast "
"Forward: Hollywood, the Japanese, and the Onslaught of the VCR</citetitle> "
"(New York: W. W. Norton, 1987), 270&ndash;71.  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7836
msgid ""
"Some public stations, as well as commercial stations, program the "
"<quote>Neighborhood</quote> at hours when some children cannot use it. I "
"think that it's a real service to families to be able to record such "
"programs and show them at appropriate times. I have always felt that with "
"the advent of all of this new technology that allows people to tape the "
"<quote>Neighborhood</quote> off-the-air, and I'm speaking for the "
"<quote>Neighborhood</quote> because that's what I produce, that they then "
"become much more active in the programming of their family's television "
"life. Very frankly, I am opposed to people being programmed by others. My "
"whole approach in broadcasting has always been <quote>You are an important "
"person just the way you are. You can make healthy decisions.</quote> Maybe "
"I'm going on too long, but I just feel that anything that allows a person to "
"be more active in the control of his or her life, in a healthy way, is "
"important.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 170 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7861
msgid ""
"Even though there were uses that were legal, because there were some uses "
"that were illegal, the court held the companies producing the VCR "
"responsible."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7866
msgid ""
"This led Conrad to draw the cartoon below, which we can adopt to the DMCA.  "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7871
msgid "No argument I have can top this picture, but let me try to get close."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7874
msgid ""
"The anticircumvention provisions of the DMCA target copyright circumvention "
"technologies. Circumvention technologies can be used for different "
"ends. They can be used, for example, to enable massive pirating of "
"copyrighted material&mdash;a bad end. Or they can be used to enable the use "
"of particular copyrighted materials in ways that would be considered fair "
"use&mdash;a good end."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 171 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7882
msgid ""
"A handgun can be used to shoot a police officer or a child. Most would agree "
"such a use is bad. Or a handgun can be used for target practice or to "
"protect against an intruder. At least some would say that such a use would "
"be good. It, too, is a technology that has both good and bad uses."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure><title>
#: freeculture.xml:7890
msgid "VCR/handgun cartoon."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure>
#: freeculture.xml:7891
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1711.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7894
msgid ""
"The obvious point of Conrad's cartoon is the weirdness of a world where guns "
"are legal, despite the harm they can do, while VCRs (and circumvention "
"technologies) are illegal. Flash: <emphasis>No one ever died from copyright "
"circumvention</emphasis>. Yet the law bans circumvention technologies "
"absolutely, despite the potential that they might do some good, but permits "
"guns, despite the obvious and tragic harm they do.  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7909
msgid ""
"The Aibo and RIAA examples demonstrate how copyright owners are changing the "
"balance that copyright law grants. Using code, copyright owners restrict "
"fair use; using the DMCA, they punish those who would attempt to evade the "
"restrictions on fair use that they impose through code. Technology becomes a "
"means by which fair use can be erased; the law of the DMCA backs up that "
"erasing."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7917
msgid ""
"This is how <emphasis>code</emphasis> becomes <emphasis>law</emphasis>. The "
"controls built into the technology of copy and access protection become "
"rules the violation of which is also a violation of the law. In this way, "
"the code extends the law&mdash;increasing its regulation, even if the "
"subject it regulates (activities that would otherwise plainly constitute "
"fair use) is beyond the reach of the law. Code becomes law; code extends the "
"law; code thus extends the control that copyright owners effect&mdash;at "
"least for those copyright holders with the lawyers who can write the nasty "
"letters that Felten and aibopet.com received."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7929
msgid ""
"There is one final aspect of the interaction between architecture and law "
"that contributes to the force of copyright's regulation. This is the ease "
"with which infringements of the law can be detected. For contrary to the "
"rhetoric common at the birth of cyberspace that on the Internet, no one "
"knows you're a dog, increasingly, given changing technologies deployed on "
"the Internet, it is easy to find the dog who committed a legal wrong. The "
"technologies of the Internet are open to snoops as well as sharers, and the "
"snoops are increasingly good at tracking down the identity of those who "
"violate the rules."
msgstr ""

#.  f24 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7948
msgid ""
"For an early and prescient analysis, see Rebecca Tushnet, <quote>Legal "
"Fictions, Copyright, Fan Fiction, and a New Common Law,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Journal</citetitle> 17 "
"(1997): 651."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7942
msgid ""
"For example, imagine you were part of a <citetitle>Star Trek</citetitle> fan "
"club. You gathered every month to share trivia, and maybe to enact a kind of "
"fan fiction about the show. One person would play Spock, another, Captain "
"Kirk. The characters would begin with a plot from a real story, then simply "
"continue it.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7954
msgid ""
"Before the Internet, this was, in effect, a totally unregulated activity.  "
"No matter what happened inside your club room, you would never be interfered "
"with by the copyright police. You were free in that space to do as you "
"wished with this part of our culture. You were allowed to build on it as you "
"wished without fear of legal control."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7961
msgid ""
"But if you moved your club onto the Internet, and made it generally "
"available for others to join, the story would be very different. Bots "
"scouring the Net for trademark and copyright infringement would quickly find "
"your site. Your posting of fan fiction, depending upon the ownership of the "
"series that you're depicting, could well inspire a lawyer's threat. And "
"ignoring the lawyer's threat would be extremely costly indeed.  The law of "
"copyright is extremely efficient. The penalties are severe, and the process "
"is quick."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7971
msgid ""
"This change in the effective force of the law is caused by a change in the "
"ease with which the law can be enforced. That change too shifts the law's "
"balance radically. It is as if your car transmitted the speed at which you "
"traveled at every moment that you drove; that would be just one step before "
"the state started issuing tickets based upon the data you transmitted. That "
"is, in effect, what is happening here."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:7980
msgid "Market: Concentration"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 173 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:7982
msgid ""
"So copyright's duration has increased dramatically&mdash;tripled in the past "
"thirty years. And copyright's scope has increased as well&mdash;from "
"regulating only publishers to now regulating just about everyone. And "
"copyright's reach has changed, as every action becomes a copy and hence "
"presumptively regulated. And as technologists find better ways to control "
"the use of content, and as copyright is increasingly enforced through "
"technology, copyright's force changes, too. Misuse is easier to find and "
"easier to control. This regulation of the creative process, which began as a "
"tiny regulation governing a tiny part of the market for creative work, has "
"become the single most important regulator of creativity there is. It is a "
"massive expansion in the scope of the government's control over innovation "
"and creativity; it would be totally unrecognizable to those who gave birth "
"to copyright's control."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8000
msgid ""
"Still, in my view, all of these changes would not matter much if it weren't "
"for one more change that we must also consider. This is a change that is in "
"some sense the most familiar, though its significance and scope are not well "
"understood. It is the one that creates precisely the reason to be concerned "
"about all the other changes I have described."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8007
msgid ""
"This is the change in the concentration and integration of the media.  In "
"the past twenty years, the nature of media ownership has undergone a radical "
"alteration, caused by changes in legal rules governing the media.  Before "
"this change happened, the different forms of media were owned by separate "
"media companies. Now, the media is increasingly owned by only a few "
"companies. Indeed, after the changes that the FCC announced in June 2003, "
"most expect that within a few years, we will live in a world where just "
"three companies control more than percent of the media."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8018
msgid "These changes are of two sorts: the scope of concentration, and its nature."
msgstr ""

#.  f25 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8026
msgid ""
"FCC Oversight: Hearing Before the Senate Commerce, Science and "
"Transportation Committee, 108th Cong., 1st sess. (22 May 2003)  (statement "
"of Senator John McCain)."
msgstr ""

#.  f26 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8033
msgid ""
"Lynette Holloway, <quote>Despite a Marketing Blitz, CD Sales Continue to "
"Slide,</quote> <citetitle>New York Times</citetitle>, 23 December 2002."
msgstr ""

#.  f27 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8039
msgid ""
"Molly Ivins, <quote>Media Consolidation Must Be Stopped,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Charleston Gazette</citetitle>, 31 May 2003."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:8042
msgid "BMG"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:8043 freeculture.xml:9391
msgid "EMI"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:8044
msgid "McCain, John"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:8045 freeculture.xml:9392
msgid "Universal Music Group"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:8046
msgid "Warner Music Group"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8022
msgid ""
"Changes in scope are the easier ones to describe. As Senator John McCain "
"summarized the data produced in the FCC's review of media ownership, "
"<quote>five companies control 85 percent of our media "
"sources.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> The five recording "
"labels of Universal Music Group, BMG, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music "
"Group, and EMI control 84.8 percent of the U.S. music market.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> The <quote>five largest cable companies pipe "
"programming to 74 percent of the cable subscribers "
"nationwide.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"2\"/> <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"3\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"4\"/> "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"5\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"6\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"7\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 174 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8049
msgid ""
"The story with radio is even more dramatic. Before deregulation, the "
"nation's largest radio broadcasting conglomerate owned fewer than "
"seventy-five stations. Today <emphasis>one</emphasis> company owns more than "
"1,200 stations.  During that period of consolidation, the total number of "
"radio owners dropped by 34 percent. Today, in most markets, the two largest "
"broadcasters control 74 percent of that market's revenues. Overall, just "
"four companies control 90 percent of the nation's radio advertising "
"revenues."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8060
msgid ""
"Newspaper ownership is becoming more concentrated as well.  Today, there are "
"six hundred fewer daily newspapers in the United States than there were "
"eighty years ago, and ten companies control half of the nation's "
"circulation. There are twenty major newspaper publishers in the United "
"States. The top ten film studios receive 99 percent of all film revenue. The "
"ten largest cable companies account for 85 percent of all cable "
"revenue. This is a market far from the free press the framers sought to "
"protect. Indeed, it is a market that is quite well protected&mdash; by the "
"market."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:8074 freeculture.xml:8091
msgid "Fallows, James"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8071
msgid ""
"Concentration in size alone is one thing. The more invidious change is in "
"the nature of that concentration. As author James Fallows put it in a recent "
"article about Rupert Murdoch, <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8089
msgid ""
"James Fallows, <quote>The Age of Murdoch,</quote> <citetitle>Atlantic "
"Monthly</citetitle> (September 2003): 89.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8078
msgid ""
"Murdoch's companies now constitute a production system unmatched in its "
"integration. They supply content&mdash;Fox movies &hellip; Fox TV shows "
"&hellip; Fox-controlled sports broadcasts, plus newspapers and books. They "
"sell the content to the public and to advertisers&mdash;in newspapers, on "
"the broadcast network, on the cable channels. And they operate the physical "
"distribution system through which the content reaches the "
"customers. Murdoch's satellite systems now distribute News Corp. content in "
"Europe and Asia; if Murdoch becomes DirecTV's largest single owner, that "
"system will serve the same function in the United States.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8096
msgid ""
"The pattern with Murdoch is the pattern of modern media. Not just large "
"companies owning many radio stations, but a few companies owning as many "
"outlets of media as possible. A picture describes this pattern better than a "
"thousand words could do:"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure><title>
#: freeculture.xml:8102
msgid "Pattern of modern media ownership."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><figure>
#: freeculture.xml:8103
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1761.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 175 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8107
msgid ""
"Does this concentration matter? Will it affect what is made, or what is "
"distributed? Or is it merely a more efficient way to produce and distribute "
"content?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8112
msgid ""
"My view was that concentration wouldn't matter. I thought it was nothing "
"more than a more efficient financial structure. But now, after reading and "
"listening to a barrage of creators try to convince me to the contrary, I am "
"beginning to change my mind."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8118
msgid ""
"Here's a representative story that begins to suggest how this integration "
"may matter."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:8121
msgid "Lear, Norman"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:8123 freeculture.xml:8186
msgid "All in the Family"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8125
msgid ""
"In 1969, Norman Lear created a pilot for <citetitle>All in the "
"Family</citetitle>. He took the pilot to ABC. The network didn't like it. It "
"was too edgy, they told Lear. Make it again. Lear made a second pilot, more "
"edgy than the first. ABC was exasperated. You're missing the point, they "
"told Lear.  We wanted less edgy, not more."
msgstr ""

#.  f29 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8137
msgid ""
"Leonard Hill, <quote>The Axis of Access,</quote> remarks before Weidenbaum "
"Center Forum, <quote>Entertainment Economics: The Movie Industry,</quote> "
"St. Louis, Missouri, 3 April 2003 (transcript of prepared remarks available "
"at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #28</ulink>; for the "
"Lear story, not included in the prepared remarks, see <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #29</ulink>)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8132
msgid ""
"Rather than comply, Lear simply took the show elsewhere. CBS was happy to "
"have the series; ABC could not stop Lear from walking.  The copyrights that "
"Lear held assured an independence from network control.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 176 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8148
msgid ""
"The network did not control those copyrights because the law forbade the "
"networks from controlling the content they syndicated. The law required a "
"separation between the networks and the content producers; that separation "
"would guarantee Lear freedom. And as late as 1992, because of these rules, "
"the vast majority of prime time television&mdash;75 percent of it&mdash;was "
"<quote>independent</quote> of the networks."
msgstr ""

#.  f30 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8167
msgid ""
"NewsCorp./DirecTV Merger and Media Consolidation: Hearings on Media "
"Ownership Before the Senate Commerce Committee, 108th Cong., 1st "
"sess. (2003) (testimony of Gene Kimmelman on behalf of Consumers Union and "
"the Consumer Federation of America), available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #30</ulink>. Kimmelman quotes "
"Victoria Riskin, president of Writers Guild of America, West, in her Remarks "
"at FCC En Banc Hearing, Richmond, Virginia, 27 February 2003."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8157
msgid ""
"In 1994, the FCC abandoned the rules that required this independence.  After "
"that change, the networks quickly changed the balance.  In 1985, there were "
"twenty-five independent television production studios; in 2002, only five "
"independent television studios remained. <quote>In 1992, only 15 percent of "
"new series were produced for a network by a company it controlled. Last "
"year, the percentage of shows produced by controlled companies more than "
"quintupled to 77 percent.</quote> <quote>In 1992, 16 new series were "
"produced independently of conglomerate control, last year there was "
"one.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> In 2002, 75 percent of "
"prime time television was owned by the networks that ran it. <quote>In the "
"ten-year period between 1992 and 2002, the number of prime time television "
"hours per week produced by network studios increased over 200%, whereas the "
"number of prime time television hours per week produced by independent "
"studios decreased 63%.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8188
msgid ""
"Today, another Norman Lear with another <citetitle>All in the "
"Family</citetitle> would find that he had the choice either to make the show "
"less edgy or to be fired: The content of any show developed for a network is "
"increasingly owned by the network."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:8197
msgid "Diller, Barry"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:8198
msgid "Moyers, Bill"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8194
msgid ""
"While the number of channels has increased dramatically, the ownership of "
"those channels has narrowed to an ever smaller and smaller few. As Barry "
"Diller said to Bill Moyers, <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  f32 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8211
msgid ""
"<quote>Barry Diller Takes on Media Deregulation,</quote> <citetitle>Now with "
"Bill Moyers</citetitle>, Bill Moyers, 25 April 2003, edited transcript "
"available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #31</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8202
msgid ""
"Well, if you have companies that produce, that finance, that air on their "
"channel and then distribute worldwide everything that goes through their "
"controlled distribution system, then what you get is fewer and fewer actual "
"voices participating in the process. [We u]sed to have dozens and dozens of "
"thriving independent production companies producing television programs. Now "
"you have less than a handful.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8218
msgid ""
"This narrowing has an effect on what is produced. The product of such large "
"and concentrated networks is increasingly homogenous.  Increasingly "
"safe. Increasingly sterile. The product of news shows from networks like "
"this is increasingly tailored to the message the network wants to "
"convey. This is not the communist party, though from the inside, it must "
"feel a bit like the communist party. No one can question without risk of "
"consequence&mdash;not necessarily banishment to Siberia, but punishment "
"nonetheless. Independent, critical, different views are quashed. This is not "
"the environment for a democracy."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:8229
msgid "Clark, Kim B."
msgstr ""

#.  f33 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8238
msgid ""
"Clayton M. Christensen, <citetitle>The Innovator's Dilemma: The "
"Revolutionary National Bestseller that Changed the Way We Do "
"Business</citetitle> (Cambridge: Harvard Business School Press, "
"1997). Christensen acknowledges that the idea was first suggested by Dean "
"Kim Clark. See Kim B. Clark, <quote>The Interaction of Design Hierarchies "
"and Market Concepts in Technological Evolution,</quote> <citetitle>Research "
"Policy</citetitle> 14 (1985): 235&ndash;51. For a more recent study, see "
"Richard Foster and Sarah Kaplan, <citetitle>Creative Destruction: Why "
"Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market&mdash;and How to "
"Successfully Transform Them</citetitle> (New York: Currency/Doubleday, "
"2001)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8231
msgid ""
"Economics itself offers a parallel that explains why this integration "
"affects creativity. Clay Christensen has written about the "
"<quote>Innovator's Dilemma</quote>: the fact that large traditional firms "
"find it rational to ignore new, breakthrough technologies that compete with "
"their core business.  The same analysis could help explain why large, "
"traditional media companies would find it rational to ignore new cultural "
"trends.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Lumbering giants not only "
"don't, but should not, sprint. Yet if the field is only open to the giants, "
"there will be far too little sprinting.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8255
msgid ""
"I don't think we know enough about the economics of the media market to say "
"with certainty what concentration and integration will do. The efficiencies "
"are important, and the effect on culture is hard to measure."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8261
msgid ""
"But there is a quintessentially obvious example that does strongly suggest "
"the concern."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8265
msgid ""
"In addition to the copyright wars, we're in the middle of the drug "
"wars. Government policy is strongly directed against the drug cartels; "
"criminal and civil courts are filled with the consequences of this battle."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 178 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8270
msgid ""
"Let me hereby disqualify myself from any possible appointment to any "
"position in government by saying I believe this war is a profound mistake. I "
"am not pro drugs. Indeed, I come from a family once wrecked by "
"drugs&mdash;though the drugs that wrecked my family were all quite legal. I "
"believe this war is a profound mistake because the collateral damage from it "
"is so great as to make waging the war insane.  When you add together the "
"burdens on the criminal justice system, the desperation of generations of "
"kids whose only real economic opportunities are as drug warriors, the "
"queering of constitutional protections because of the constant surveillance "
"this war requires, and, most profoundly, the total destruction of the legal "
"systems of many South American nations because of the power of the local "
"drug cartels, I find it impossible to believe that the marginal benefit in "
"reduced drug consumption by Americans could possibly outweigh these costs."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8289
msgid ""
"You may not be convinced. That's fine. We live in a democracy, and it is "
"through votes that we are to choose policy. But to do that, we depend "
"fundamentally upon the press to help inform Americans about these issues."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8298
msgid ""
"Beginning in 1998, the Office of National Drug Control Policy launched a "
"media campaign as part of the <quote>war on drugs.</quote> The campaign "
"produced scores of short film clips about issues related to illegal "
"drugs. In one series (the Nick and Norm series) two men are in a bar, "
"discussing the idea of legalizing drugs as a way to avoid some of the "
"collateral damage from the war. One advances an argument in favor of drug "
"legalization. The other responds in a powerful and effective way against the "
"argument of the first. In the end, the first guy changes his mind (hey, it's "
"television). The plug at the end is a damning attack on the pro-legalization "
"campaign."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8310
msgid ""
"Fair enough. It's a good ad. Not terribly misleading. It delivers its "
"message well. It's a fair and reasonable message."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8314
msgid ""
"But let's say you think it is a wrong message, and you'd like to run a "
"countercommercial. Say you want to run a series of ads that try to "
"demonstrate the extraordinary collateral harm that comes from the drug "
"war. Can you do it?"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 179 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8320
msgid ""
"Well, obviously, these ads cost lots of money. Assume you raise the "
"money. Assume a group of concerned citizens donates all the money in the "
"world to help you get your message out. Can you be sure your message will be "
"heard then?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:8362
msgid "Comcast"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:8363
msgid "Marijuana Policy Project"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:8364
msgid "NBC"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:8365
msgid "WJOA"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:8366
msgid "WRC"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8337
msgid ""
"The Marijuana Policy Project, in February 2003, sought to place ads that "
"directly responded to the Nick and Norm series on stations within the "
"Washington, D.C., area. Comcast rejected the ads as <quote>against [their] "
"policy.</quote> The local NBC affiliate, WRC, rejected the ads without "
"reviewing them. The local ABC affiliate, WJOA, originally agreed to run the "
"ads and accepted payment to do so, but later decided not to run the ads and "
"returned the collected fees. Interview with Neal Levine, 15 October 2003.  "
"These restrictions are, of course, not limited to drug policy. See, for "
"example, Nat Ives, <quote>On the Issue of an Iraq War, Advocacy Ads Meet "
"with Rejection from TV Networks,</quote> <citetitle>New York "
"Times</citetitle>, 13 March 2003, C4.  Outside of election-related air time "
"there is very little that the FCC or the courts are willing to do to even "
"the playing field. For a general overview, see Rhonda Brown, <quote>Ad Hoc "
"Access: The Regulation of Editorial Advertising on Television and "
"Radio,</quote> <citetitle>Yale Law and Policy Review</citetitle> 6 (1988): "
"449&ndash;79, and for a more recent summary of the stance of the FCC and the "
"courts, see <citetitle>Radio-Television News Directors "
"Association</citetitle> v. <citetitle>FCC</citetitle>, 184 F. 3d 872 "
"(D.C. Cir. 1999). Municipal authorities exercise the same authority as the "
"networks. In a recent example from San Francisco, the San Francisco transit "
"authority rejected an ad that criticized its Muni diesel buses. Phillip "
"Matier and Andrew Ross, <quote>Antidiesel Group Fuming After Muni Rejects "
"Ad,</quote> SFGate.com, 16 June 2003, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #32</ulink>. The ground was that "
"the criticism was <quote>too controversial.</quote> <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/> "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"2\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"3\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"4\"/> <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"5\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"6\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8327
msgid ""
"No. You cannot. Television stations have a general policy of avoiding "
"<quote>controversial</quote> ads. Ads sponsored by the government are deemed "
"uncontroversial; ads disagreeing with the government are controversial.  "
"This selectivity might be thought inconsistent with the First Amendment, but "
"the Supreme Court has held that stations have the right to choose what they "
"run. Thus, the major channels of commercial media will refuse one side of a "
"crucial debate the opportunity to present its case.  And the courts will "
"defend the rights of the stations to be this biased.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8371
msgid ""
"I'd be happy to defend the networks' rights, as well&mdash;if we lived in a "
"media market that was truly diverse. But concentration in the media throws "
"that condition into doubt. If a handful of companies control access to the "
"media, and that handful of companies gets to decide which political "
"positions it will allow to be promoted on its channels, then in an obvious "
"and important way, concentration matters. You might like the positions the "
"handful of companies selects. But you should not like a world in which a "
"mere few get to decide which issues the rest of us get to know about."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:8384
msgid "Together"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8386
msgid ""
"There is something innocent and obvious about the claim of the copyright "
"warriors that the government should <quote>protect my property.</quote> In "
"the abstract, it is obviously true and, ordinarily, totally harmless. No "
"sane sort who is not an anarchist could disagree."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 180 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8392
msgid ""
"But when we see how dramatically this <quote>property</quote> has "
"changed&mdash; when we recognize how it might now interact with both "
"technology and markets to mean that the effective constraint on the liberty "
"to cultivate our culture is dramatically different&mdash;the claim begins to "
"seem less innocent and obvious. Given (1) the power of technology to "
"supplement the law's control, and (2) the power of concentrated markets to "
"weaken the opportunity for dissent, if strictly enforcing the massively "
"expanded <quote>property</quote> rights granted by copyright fundamentally "
"changes the freedom within this culture to cultivate and build upon our "
"past, then we have to ask whether this property should be redefined."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8408
msgid ""
"Not starkly. Or absolutely. My point is not that we should abolish copyright "
"or go back to the eighteenth century. That would be a total mistake, "
"disastrous for the most important creative enterprises within our culture "
"today."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8414
msgid ""
"But there is a space between zero and one, Internet culture "
"notwithstanding.  And these massive shifts in the effective power of "
"copyright regulation, tied to increased concentration of the content "
"industry and resting in the hands of technology that will increasingly "
"enable control over the use of culture, should drive us to consider whether "
"another adjustment is called for. Not an adjustment that increases "
"copyright's power. Not an adjustment that increases its term. Rather, an "
"adjustment to restore the balance that has traditionally defined copyright's "
"regulation&mdash;a weakening of that regulation, to strengthen creativity."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8426
msgid ""
"Copyright law has not been a rock of Gibraltar. It's not a set of constant "
"commitments that, for some mysterious reason, teenagers and geeks now "
"flout. Instead, copyright power has grown dramatically in a short period of "
"time, as the technologies of distribution and creation have changed and as "
"lobbyists have pushed for more control by copyright holders. Changes in the "
"past in response to changes in technology suggest that we may well need "
"similar changes in the future. And these changes have to be "
"<emphasis>reductions</emphasis> in the scope of copyright, in response to "
"the extraordinary increase in control that technology and the market enable."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 181 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8438
msgid ""
"For the single point that is lost in this war on pirates is a point that we "
"see only after surveying the range of these changes. When you add together "
"the effect of changing law, concentrated markets, and changing technology, "
"together they produce an astonishing conclusion: <emphasis>Never in our "
"history have fewer had a legal right to control more of the development of "
"our culture than now</emphasis>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8462
msgid ""
"Siva Vaidhyanathan captures a similar point in his <quote>four "
"surrenders</quote> of copyright law in the digital age. See Vaidhyanathan, "
"159&ndash;60.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8447
msgid ""
"Not when copyrights were perpetual, for when copyrights were perpetual, they "
"affected only that precise creative work. Not when only publishers had the "
"tools to publish, for the market then was much more diverse. Not when there "
"were only three television networks, for even then, newspapers, film "
"studios, radio stations, and publishers were independent of the "
"networks. <emphasis>Never</emphasis> has copyright protected such a wide "
"range of rights, against as broad a range of actors, for a term that was "
"remotely as long. This form of regulation&mdash;a tiny regulation of a tiny "
"part of the creative energy of a nation at the founding&mdash;is now a "
"massive regulation of the overall creative process. Law plus technology plus "
"the market now interact to turn this historically benign regulation into the "
"most significant regulation of culture that our free society has "
"known.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8468
msgid "This has been a long chapter. Its point can now be briefly stated."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8471
msgid ""
"At the start of this book, I distinguished between commercial and "
"noncommercial culture. In the course of this chapter, I have distinguished "
"between copying a work and transforming it. We can now combine these two "
"distinctions and draw a clear map of the changes that copyright law has "
"undergone.  In 1790, the law looked like this:"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><informaltable><tgroup><thead><row><entry>
#: freeculture.xml:8483 freeculture.xml:8520
msgid "PUBLISH"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><informaltable><tgroup><thead><row><entry>
#: freeculture.xml:8484 freeculture.xml:8521 freeculture.xml:8559 freeculture.xml:8591
msgid "TRANSFORM"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
#: freeculture.xml:8489 freeculture.xml:8526 freeculture.xml:8564 freeculture.xml:8596
msgid "Commercial"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
#: freeculture.xml:8490 freeculture.xml:8527 freeculture.xml:8528 freeculture.xml:8565 freeculture.xml:8566 freeculture.xml:8597 freeculture.xml:8598 freeculture.xml:8602 freeculture.xml:8603
msgid "&copy;"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
#: freeculture.xml:8491 freeculture.xml:8495 freeculture.xml:8496 freeculture.xml:8532 freeculture.xml:8533 freeculture.xml:8571
msgid "Free"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
#: freeculture.xml:8494 freeculture.xml:8531 freeculture.xml:8569 freeculture.xml:8601
msgid "Noncommercial"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 182 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8503
msgid ""
"The act of publishing a map, chart, and book was regulated by copyright "
"law. Nothing else was. Transformations were free. And as copyright attached "
"only with registration, and only those who intended to benefit commercially "
"would register, copying through publishing of noncommercial work was also "
"free."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8512
msgid "By the end of the nineteenth century, the law had changed to this:"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8540
msgid ""
"Derivative works were now regulated by copyright law&mdash;if published, "
"which again, given the economics of publishing at the time, means if offered "
"commercially. But noncommercial publishing and transformation were still "
"essentially free."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8546
msgid ""
"In 1909 the law changed to regulate copies, not publishing, and after this "
"change, the scope of the law was tied to technology. As the technology of "
"copying became more prevalent, the reach of the law expanded.  Thus by 1975, "
"as photocopying machines became more common, we could say the law began to "
"look like this:"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><informaltable><tgroup><thead><row><entry>
#: freeculture.xml:8558 freeculture.xml:8590
msgid "COPY"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
#: freeculture.xml:8570
msgid "&copy;/Free"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8578
msgid ""
"The law was interpreted to reach noncommercial copying through, say, copy "
"machines, but still much of copying outside of the commercial market "
"remained free. But the consequence of the emergence of digital technologies, "
"especially in the context of a digital network, means that the law now looks "
"like this:"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 183 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8610
msgid ""
"Every realm is governed by copyright law, whereas before most creativity was "
"not. The law now regulates the full range of creativity&mdash; commercial or "
"not, transformative or not&mdash;with the same rules designed to regulate "
"commercial publishers."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8618
msgid ""
"Obviously, copyright law is not the enemy. The enemy is regulation that does "
"no good. So the question that we should be asking just now is whether "
"extending the regulations of copyright law into each of these domains "
"actually does any good."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8624
msgid ""
"I have no doubt that it does good in regulating commercial copying.  But I "
"also have no doubt that it does more harm than good when regulating (as it "
"regulates just now) noncommercial copying and, especially, noncommercial "
"transformation. And increasingly, for the reasons sketched especially in "
"chapters <xref xrefstyle=\"select: labelnumber\" linkend=\"recorders\"/> and "
"<xref xrefstyle=\"select: labelnumber\" linkend=\"transformers\"/>, one "
"might well wonder whether it does more harm than good for commercial "
"transformation.  More commercial transformative work would be created if "
"derivative rights were more sharply restricted."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:8648
msgid "legal realist movement"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8642
msgid ""
"It was the single most important contribution of the legal realist movement "
"to demonstrate that all property rights are always crafted to balance public "
"and private interests. See Thomas C. Grey, <quote>The Disintegration of "
"Property,</quote> in <citetitle>Nomos XXII: Property</citetitle>, J. Roland "
"Pennock and John W.  Chapman, eds. (New York: New York University Press, "
"1980).  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8636
msgid ""
"The issue is therefore not simply whether copyright is property. Of course "
"copyright is a kind of <quote>property,</quote> and of course, as with any "
"property, the state ought to protect it. But first impressions "
"notwithstanding, historically, this property right (as with all property "
"rights<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>)  has been crafted to "
"balance the important need to give authors and artists incentives with the "
"equally important need to assure access to creative work. This balance has "
"always been struck in light of new technologies.  And for almost half of our "
"tradition, the <quote>copyright</quote> did not control <emphasis>at "
"all</emphasis> the freedom of others to build upon or transform a creative "
"work. American culture was born free, and for almost 180 years our country "
"consistently protected a vibrant and rich free culture."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 184 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8661
msgid ""
"We achieved that free culture because our law respected important limits on "
"the scope of the interests protected by <quote>property.</quote> The very "
"birth of <quote>copyright</quote> as a statutory right recognized those "
"limits, by granting copyright owners protection for a limited time only (the "
"story of chapter 6). The tradition of <quote>fair use</quote> is animated by "
"a similar concern that is increasingly under strain as the costs of "
"exercising any fair use right become unavoidably high (the story of chapter "
"7). Adding statutory rights where markets might stifle innovation is another "
"familiar limit on the property right that copyright is (chapter 8). And "
"granting archives and libraries a broad freedom to collect, claims of "
"property notwithstanding, is a crucial part of guaranteeing the soul of a "
"culture (chapter 9). Free cultures, like free markets, are built with "
"property. But the nature of the property that builds a free culture is very "
"different from the extremist vision that dominates the debate today."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8680
msgid ""
"Free culture is increasingly the casualty in this war on piracy. In response "
"to a real, if not yet quantified, threat that the technologies of the "
"Internet present to twentieth-century business models for producing and "
"distributing culture, the law and technology are being transformed in a way "
"that will undermine our tradition of free culture. The property right that "
"is copyright is no longer the balanced right that it was, or was intended to "
"be. The property right that is copyright has become unbalanced, tilted "
"toward an extreme. The opportunity to create and transform becomes weakened "
"in a world in which creation requires permission and creativity must check "
"with a lawyer."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><title>
#: freeculture.xml:8697
msgid "PUZZLES"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
#: freeculture.xml:8701
msgid "CHAPTER ELEVEN: Chimera"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:8703
msgid "chimeras"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:8706
msgid "Wells, H. G."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:8709
msgid "<quote>Country of the Blind, The</quote> (Wells)"
msgstr ""

#.  f1. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8717
msgid ""
"H. G. Wells, <quote>The Country of the Blind</quote> (1904, 1911). See "
"H. G. Wells, <citetitle>The Country of the Blind and Other "
"Stories</citetitle>, Michael Sherborne, ed. (New York: Oxford University "
"Press, 1996)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8713
msgid ""
"In a well-known short story by H. G. Wells, a mountain climber named Nunez "
"trips (literally, down an ice slope) into an unknown and isolated valley in "
"the Peruvian Andes.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> The valley is "
"extraordinarily beautiful, with <quote>sweet water, pasture, an even "
"climate, slopes of rich brown soil with tangles of a shrub that bore an "
"excellent fruit.</quote> But the villagers are all blind. Nunez takes this "
"as an opportunity. <quote>In the Country of the Blind,</quote> he tells "
"himself, <quote>the One-Eyed Man is King.</quote> So he resolves to live "
"with the villagers to explore life as a king."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8729
msgid ""
"Things don't go quite as he planned. He tries to explain the idea of sight "
"to the villagers. They don't understand. He tells them they are "
"<quote>blind.</quote> They don't have the word "
"<citetitle>blind</citetitle>. They think he's just thick.  Indeed, as they "
"increasingly notice the things he can't do (hear the sound of grass being "
"stepped on, for example), they increasingly try to control him. He, in turn, "
"becomes increasingly frustrated. <quote>`You don't understand,' he cried, in "
"a voice that was meant to be great and resolute, and which broke. `You are "
"blind and I can see. Leave me alone!'</quote>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 187 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8741
msgid ""
"The villagers don't leave him alone. Nor do they see (so to speak) the "
"virtue of his special power. Not even the ultimate target of his affection, "
"a young woman who to him seems <quote>the most beautiful thing in the whole "
"of creation,</quote> understands the beauty of sight. Nunez's description of "
"what he sees <quote>seemed to her the most poetical of fancies, and she "
"listened to his description of the stars and the mountains and her own sweet "
"white-lit beauty as though it was a guilty indulgence.</quote> <quote>She "
"did not believe,</quote> Wells tells us, and <quote>she could only half "
"understand, but she was mysteriously delighted.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8752
msgid ""
"When Nunez announces his desire to marry his <quote>mysteriously "
"delighted</quote> love, the father and the village object. <quote>You see, "
"my dear,</quote> her father instructs, <quote>he's an idiot. He has "
"delusions. He can't do anything right.</quote> They take Nunez to the "
"village doctor."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8758
msgid ""
"After a careful examination, the doctor gives his opinion. <quote>His brain "
"is affected,</quote> he reports."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8762
msgid ""
"<quote>What affects it?</quote> the father asks.  <quote>Those queer things "
"that are called the eyes &hellip; are diseased &hellip; in such a way as to "
"affect his brain.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8767
msgid ""
"The doctor continues: <quote>I think I may say with reasonable certainty "
"that in order to cure him completely, all that we need to do is a simple and "
"easy surgical operation&mdash;namely, to remove these irritant bodies [the "
"eyes].</quote>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 188 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8773
msgid ""
"<quote>Thank Heaven for science!</quote> says the father to the doctor. They "
"inform Nunez of this condition necessary for him to be allowed his bride.  "
"(You'll have to read the original to learn what happens in the end. I "
"believe in free culture, but never in giving away the end of a story.)  It "
"sometimes happens that the eggs of twins fuse in the mother's womb. That "
"fusion produces a <quote>chimera.</quote> A chimera is a single creature "
"with two sets of DNA. The DNA in the blood, for example, might be different "
"from the DNA of the skin. This possibility is an underused plot for murder "
"mysteries. <quote>But the DNA shows with 100 percent certainty that she was "
"not the person whose blood was at the scene. &hellip;</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8790
msgid ""
"Before I had read about chimeras, I would have said they were impossible.  A "
"single person can't have two sets of DNA. The very idea of DNA is that it is "
"the code of an individual. Yet in fact, not only can two individuals have "
"the same set of DNA (identical twins), but one person can have two different "
"sets of DNA (a chimera). Our understanding of a <quote>person</quote> should "
"reflect this reality."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8798
msgid ""
"The more I work to understand the current struggle over copyright and "
"culture, which I've sometimes called unfairly, and sometimes not unfairly "
"enough, <quote>the copyright wars,</quote> the more I think we're dealing "
"with a chimera. For example, in the battle over the question <quote>What is "
"p2p file sharing?</quote> both sides have it right, and both sides have it "
"wrong.  One side says, <quote>File sharing is just like two kids taping each "
"others' records&mdash;the sort of thing we've been doing for the last thirty "
"years without any question at all.</quote> That's true, at least in "
"part. When I tell my best friend to try out a new CD that I've bought, but "
"rather than just send the CD, I point him to my p2p server, that is, in all "
"relevant respects, just like what every executive in every recording company "
"no doubt did as a kid: sharing music."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8812
msgid ""
"But the description is also false in part. For when my p2p server is on a "
"p2p network through which anyone can get access to my music, then sure, my "
"friends can get access, but it stretches the meaning of "
"<quote>friends</quote> beyond recognition to say <quote>my ten thousand best "
"friends</quote> can get access. Whether or not sharing my music with my best "
"friend is what <quote>we have always been allowed to do,</quote> we have not "
"always been allowed to share music with <quote>our ten thousand best "
"friends.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8821
msgid ""
"Likewise, when the other side says, <quote>File sharing is just like walking "
"into a Tower Records and taking a CD off the shelf and walking out with "
"it,</quote> that's true, at least in part. If, after Lyle Lovett (finally) "
"releases a new album, rather than buying it, I go to Kazaa and find a free "
"copy to take, that is very much like stealing a copy from Tower.  "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 189 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8832
msgid ""
"But it is not quite stealing from Tower. After all, when I take a CD from "
"Tower Records, Tower has one less CD to sell. And when I take a CD from "
"Tower Records, I get a bit of plastic and a cover, and something to show on "
"my shelves. (And, while we're at it, we could also note that when I take a "
"CD from Tower Records, the maximum fine that might be imposed on me, under "
"California law, at least, is $1,000.  According to the RIAA, by contrast, if "
"I download a ten-song CD, I'm liable for $1,500,000 in damages.)"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8842
msgid ""
"The point is not that it is as neither side describes. The point is that it "
"is both&mdash;both as the RIAA describes it and as Kazaa describes it. It is "
"a chimera. And rather than simply denying what the other side asserts, we "
"need to begin to think about how we should respond to this chimera. What "
"rules should govern it?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:8888
msgid "Conyers, John, Jr."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:8889 freeculture.xml:9599
msgid "Berman, Howard L."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8858
msgid ""
"For an excellent summary, see the report prepared by GartnerG2 and the "
"Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, "
"<quote>Copyright and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World,</quote> 27 June "
"2003, available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link "
"#33</ulink>. Reps. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) and Howard L. Berman "
"(D-Calif.) have introduced a bill that would treat unauthorized on-line "
"copying as a felony offense with punishments ranging as high as five years "
"imprisonment; see Jon Healey, <quote>House Bill Aims to Up Stakes on "
"Piracy,</quote> <citetitle>Los Angeles Times</citetitle>, 17 July 2003, "
"available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link "
"#34</ulink>. Civil penalties are currently set at $150,000 per copied "
"song. For a recent (and unsuccessful) legal challenge to the RIAA's demand "
"that an ISP reveal the identity of a user accused of sharing more than 600 "
"songs through a family computer, see <citetitle>RIAA</citetitle> "
"v. <citetitle>Verizon Internet Services (In re. Verizon Internet "
"Services)</citetitle>, 240 F.  Supp. 2d 24 (D.D.C. 2003). Such a user could "
"face liability ranging as high as $90 million. Such astronomical figures "
"furnish the RIAA with a powerful arsenal in its prosecution of file "
"sharers. Settlements ranging from $12,000 to $17,500 for four students "
"accused of heavy file sharing on university networks must have seemed a mere "
"pittance next to the $98 billion the RIAA could seek should the matter "
"proceed to court. See Elizabeth Young, <quote>Downloading Could Lead to "
"Fines,</quote> redandblack.com, August 2003, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #35</ulink>. For an example of "
"the RIAA's targeting of student file sharing, and of the subpoenas issued to "
"universities to reveal student file-sharer identities, see James Collins, "
"<quote>RIAA Steps Up Bid to Force BC, MIT to Name Students,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Boston Globe</citetitle>, 8 August 2003, D3, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #36</ulink>.  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8849
msgid ""
"We could respond by simply pretending that it is not a chimera. We could, "
"with the RIAA, decide that every act of file sharing should be a felony. We "
"could prosecute families for millions of dollars in damages just because "
"file sharing occurred on a family computer. And we can get universities to "
"monitor all computer traffic to make sure that no computer is used to commit "
"this crime. These responses might be extreme, but each of them has either "
"been proposed or actually implemented.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8895
msgid ""
"Alternatively, we could respond to file sharing the way many kids act as "
"though we've responded. We could totally legalize it. Let there be no "
"copyright liability, either civil or criminal, for making copyrighted "
"content available on the Net. Make file sharing like gossip: regulated, if "
"at all, by social norms but not by law."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8902
msgid ""
"Either response is possible. I think either would be a mistake.  Rather than "
"embrace one of these two extremes, we should embrace something that "
"recognizes the truth in both. And while I end this book with a sketch of a "
"system that does just that, my aim in the next chapter is to show just how "
"awful it would be for us to adopt the zero-tolerance extreme. I believe "
"<emphasis>either</emphasis> extreme would be worse than a reasonable "
"alternative.  But I believe the zero-tolerance solution would be the worse "
"of the two extremes."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 190 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8914
msgid ""
"Yet zero tolerance is increasingly our government's policy. In the middle of "
"the chaos that the Internet has created, an extraordinary land grab is "
"occurring. The law and technology are being shifted to give content holders "
"a kind of control over our culture that they have never had before. And in "
"this extremism, many an opportunity for new innovation and new creativity "
"will be lost."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8922
msgid ""
"I'm not talking about the opportunities for kids to <quote>steal</quote> "
"music. My focus instead is the commercial and cultural innovation that this "
"war will also kill. We have never seen the power to innovate spread so "
"broadly among our citizens, and we have just begun to see the innovation "
"that this power will unleash. Yet the Internet has already seen the passing "
"of one cycle of innovation around technologies to distribute content. The "
"law is responsible for this passing. As the vice president for global public "
"policy at one of these new innovators, eMusic.com, put it when criticizing "
"the DMCA's added protection for copyrighted material,"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8935
msgid ""
"eMusic opposes music piracy. We are a distributor of copyrighted material, "
"and we want to protect those rights."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8939
msgid ""
"But building a technology fortress that locks in the clout of the major "
"labels is by no means the only way to protect copyright interests, nor is it "
"necessarily the best. It is simply too early to answer that question. Market "
"forces operating naturally may very well produce a totally different "
"industry model."
msgstr ""

#.  f3. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8956
msgid ""
"WIPO and the DMCA One Year Later: Assessing Consumer Access to Digital "
"Entertainment on the Internet and Other Media: Hearing Before the "
"Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection, House "
"Committee on Commerce, 106th Cong. 29 (1999) (statement of Peter Harter, "
"vice president, Global Public Policy and Standards, EMusic.com), available "
"in LEXIS, Federal Document Clearing House Congressional Testimony File."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8946
msgid ""
"This is a critical point. The choices that industry sectors make with "
"respect to these systems will in many ways directly shape the market for "
"digital media and the manner in which digital media are distributed. This in "
"turn will directly influence the options that are available to consumers, "
"both in terms of the ease with which they will be able to access digital "
"media and the equipment that they will require to do so. Poor choices made "
"this early in the game will retard the growth of this market, hurting "
"everyone's interests.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:8970 freeculture.xml:9324
msgid "Vivendi Universal"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8967
msgid ""
"In April 2001, eMusic.com was purchased by Vivendi Universal, one of "
"<quote>the major labels.</quote> Its position on these matters has now "
"changed.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8973
msgid ""
"Reversing our tradition of tolerance now will not merely quash piracy. It "
"will sacrifice values that are important to this culture, and will kill "
"opportunities that could be extraordinarily valuable."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
#: freeculture.xml:8981
msgid "CHAPTER TWELVE: Harms"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8983
msgid ""
"To fight <quote>piracy,</quote> to protect <quote>property,</quote> the "
"content industry has launched a war. Lobbying and lots of campaign "
"contributions have now brought the government into this war. As with any "
"war, this one will have both direct and collateral damage. As with any war "
"of prohibition, these damages will be suffered most by our own people."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8990
msgid ""
"My aim so far has been to describe the consequences of this war, in "
"particular, the consequences for <quote>free culture.</quote> But my aim now "
"is to extend this description of consequences into an argument. Is this war "
"justified?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:8996
msgid ""
"In my view, it is not. There is no good reason why this time, for the first "
"time, the law should defend the old against the new, just when the power of "
"the property called <quote>intellectual property</quote> is at its greatest "
"in our history."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9004
msgid ""
"Yet <quote>common sense</quote> does not see it this way. Common sense is "
"still on the side of the Causbys and the content industry. The extreme "
"claims of control in the name of property still resonate; the uncritical "
"rejection of <quote>piracy</quote> still has play."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 193 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9012
msgid ""
"There will be many consequences of continuing this war. I want to describe "
"just three. All three might be said to be unintended. I am quite confident "
"the third is unintended. I'm less sure about the first two. The first two "
"protect modern RCAs, but there is no Howard Armstrong in the wings to fight "
"today's monopolists of culture."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:9019
msgid "Constraining Creators"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9021
msgid ""
"In the next ten years we will see an explosion of digital technologies.  "
"These technologies will enable almost anyone to capture and share "
"content. Capturing and sharing content, of course, is what humans have done "
"since the dawn of man. It is how we learn and communicate. But capturing and "
"sharing through digital technology is different. The fidelity and power are "
"different. You could send an e-mail telling someone about a joke you saw on "
"Comedy Central, or you could send the clip. You could write an essay about "
"the inconsistencies in the arguments of the politician you most love to "
"hate, or you could make a short film that puts statement against "
"statement. You could write a poem to express your love, or you could weave "
"together a string&mdash;a mash-up&mdash; of songs from your favorite artists "
"in a collage and make it available on the Net."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9036
msgid ""
"This digital <quote>capturing and sharing</quote> is in part an extension of "
"the capturing and sharing that has always been integral to our culture, and "
"in part it is something new. It is continuous with the Kodak, but it "
"explodes the boundaries of Kodak-like technologies. The technology of "
"digital <quote>capturing and sharing</quote> promises a world of "
"extraordinarily diverse creativity that can be easily and broadly "
"shared. And as that creativity is applied to democracy, it will enable a "
"broad range of citizens to use technology to express and criticize and "
"contribute to the culture all around."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 194 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9047
msgid ""
"Technology has thus given us an opportunity to do something with culture "
"that has only ever been possible for individuals in small groups, isolated "
"from others. Think about an old man telling a story to a collection of "
"neighbors in a small town. Now imagine that same storytelling extended "
"across the globe."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9057
msgid ""
"Yet all this is possible only if the activity is presumptively legal. In the "
"current regime of legal regulation, it is not. Forget file sharing for a "
"moment. Think about your favorite amazing sites on the Net. Web sites that "
"offer plot summaries from forgotten television shows; sites that catalog "
"cartoons from the 1960s; sites that mix images and sound to criticize "
"politicians or businesses; sites that gather newspaper articles on remote "
"topics of science or culture. There is a vast amount of creative work spread "
"across the Internet. But as the law is currently crafted, this work is "
"presumptively illegal."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:9085 freeculture.xml:9106
msgid "Worldcom"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9080
msgid ""
"See Lynne W. Jeter, <citetitle>Disconnected: Deceit and Betrayal at "
"WorldCom</citetitle> (Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley &amp; Sons, 2003), 176, 204; "
"for details of the settlement, see MCI press release, <quote>MCI Wins "
"U.S. District Court Approval for SEC Settlement</quote> (7 July 2003), "
"available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #37</ulink>.  "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:9101
msgid "Bush, George W."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9092
msgid ""
"The bill, modeled after California's tort reform model, was passed in the "
"House of Representatives but defeated in a Senate vote in July 2003. For an "
"overview, see Tanya Albert, <quote>Measure Stalls in Senate: `We'll Be "
"Back,' Say Tort Reformers,</quote> amednews.com, 28 July 2003, available at "
"<ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #38</ulink>, and "
"<quote>Senate Turns Back Malpractice Caps,</quote> CBSNews.com, 9 July 2003, "
"available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link "
"#39</ulink>. President Bush has continued to urge tort reform in recent "
"months.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9068
msgid ""
"That presumption will increasingly chill creativity, as the examples of "
"extreme penalties for vague infringements continue to proliferate. It is "
"impossible to get a clear sense of what's allowed and what's not, and at the "
"same time, the penalties for crossing the line are astonishingly harsh.  The "
"four students who were threatened by the RIAA ( Jesse Jordan of chapter 3 "
"was just one) were threatened with a $98 billion lawsuit for building search "
"engines that permitted songs to be copied. Yet World-Com&mdash;which "
"defrauded investors of $11 billion, resulting in a loss to investors in "
"market capitalization of over $200 billion&mdash;received a fine of a mere "
"$750 million.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> And under legislation "
"being pushed in Congress right now, a doctor who negligently removes the "
"wrong leg in an operation would be liable for no more than $250,000 in "
"damages for pain and suffering.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> Can "
"common sense recognize the absurdity in a world where the maximum fine for "
"downloading two songs off the Internet is more than the fine for a doctor's "
"negligently butchering a patient? <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"2\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:9108
msgid "art, underground"
msgstr ""

#.  f3. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9129
msgid ""
"See Danit Lidor, <quote>Artists Just Wanna Be Free,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Wired</citetitle>, 7 July 2003, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #40</ulink>. For an overview of "
"the exhibition, see <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link "
"#41</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9110
msgid ""
"The consequence of this legal uncertainty, tied to these extremely high "
"penalties, is that an extraordinary amount of creativity will either never "
"be exercised, or never be exercised in the open. We drive this creative "
"process underground by branding the modern-day Walt Disneys "
"<quote>pirates.</quote> We make it impossible for businesses to rely upon a "
"public domain, because the boundaries of the public domain are designed to "
"be unclear. It never pays to do anything except pay for the right to create, "
"and hence only those who can pay are allowed to create. As was the case in "
"the Soviet Union, though for very different reasons, we will begin to see a "
"world of underground art&mdash;not because the message is necessarily "
"political, or because the subject is controversial, but because the very act "
"of creating the art is legally fraught. Already, exhibits of <quote>illegal "
"art</quote> tour the United States.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
"In what does their <quote>illegality</quote> consist? In the act of mixing "
"the culture around us with an expression that is critical or reflective."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9139
msgid ""
"Part of the reason for this fear of illegality has to do with the changing "
"law. I described that change in detail in chapter <xref xrefstyle=\"select: "
"labelnumber\" linkend=\"property-i\"/>. But an even bigger part has to do "
"with the increasing ease with which infractions can be tracked. As users of "
"file-sharing systems discovered in 2002, it is a trivial matter for "
"copyright owners to get courts to order Internet service providers to reveal "
"who has what content. It is as if your cassette tape player transmitted a "
"list of the songs that you played in the privacy of your own home that "
"anyone could tune into for whatever reason they chose."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9151
msgid ""
"Never in our history has a painter had to worry about whether his painting "
"infringed on someone else's work; but the modern-day painter, using the "
"tools of Photoshop, sharing content on the Web, must worry all the "
"time. Images are all around, but the only safe images to use in the act of "
"creation are those purchased from Corbis or another image farm. And in "
"purchasing, censoring happens. There is a free market in pencils; we needn't "
"worry about its effect on creativity. But there is a highly regulated, "
"monopolized market in cultural icons; the right to cultivate and transform "
"them is not similarly free."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9162
msgid ""
"Lawyers rarely see this because lawyers are rarely empirical. As I described "
"in chapter <xref xrefstyle=\"select: labelnumber\" linkend=\"recorders\"/>, "
"in response to the story about documentary filmmaker Jon Else, I have been "
"lectured again and again by lawyers who insist Else's use was fair use, and "
"hence I am wrong to say that the law regulates such a use."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 196 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9173
msgid ""
"But fair use in America simply means the right to hire a lawyer to defend "
"your right to create. And as lawyers love to forget, our system for "
"defending rights such as fair use is astonishingly bad&mdash;in practically "
"every context, but especially here. It costs too much, it delivers too "
"slowly, and what it delivers often has little connection to the justice "
"underlying the claim. The legal system may be tolerable for the very rich.  "
"For everyone else, it is an embarrassment to a tradition that prides itself "
"on the rule of law."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9183
msgid ""
"Judges and lawyers can tell themselves that fair use provides adequate "
"<quote>breathing room</quote> between regulation by the law and the access "
"the law should allow. But it is a measure of how out of touch our legal "
"system has become that anyone actually believes this. The rules that "
"publishers impose upon writers, the rules that film distributors impose upon "
"filmmakers, the rules that newspapers impose upon journalists&mdash; these "
"are the real laws governing creativity. And these rules have little "
"relationship to the <quote>law</quote> with which judges comfort themselves."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9194
msgid ""
"For in a world that threatens $150,000 for a single willful infringement of "
"a copyright, and which demands tens of thousands of dollars to even defend "
"against a copyright infringement claim, and which would never return to the "
"wrongfully accused defendant anything of the costs she suffered to defend "
"her right to speak&mdash;in that world, the astonishingly broad regulations "
"that pass under the name <quote>copyright</quote> silence speech and "
"creativity. And in that world, it takes a studied blindness for people to "
"continue to believe they live in a culture that is free."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9205
msgid "As Jed Horovitz, the businessman behind Video Pipeline, said to me,"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 197 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9209
msgid ""
"We're losing [creative] opportunities right and left. Creative people are "
"being forced not to express themselves. Thoughts are not being "
"expressed. And while a lot of stuff may [still] be created, it still won't "
"get distributed. Even if the stuff gets made &hellip; you're not going to "
"get it distributed in the mainstream media unless you've got a little note "
"from a lawyer saying, <quote>This has been cleared.</quote> You're not even "
"going to get it on PBS without that kind of permission. That's the point at "
"which they control it."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:9222
msgid "Constraining Innovators"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9224
msgid ""
"The story of the last section was a crunchy-lefty story&mdash;creativity "
"quashed, artists who can't speak, yada yada yada. Maybe that doesn't get you "
"going. Maybe you think there's enough weird art out there, and enough "
"expression that is critical of what seems to be just about everything.  And "
"if you think that, you might think there's little in this story to worry "
"you."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9232
msgid ""
"But there's an aspect of this story that is not lefty in any sense.  Indeed, "
"it is an aspect that could be written by the most extreme promarket "
"ideologue. And if you're one of these sorts (and a special one at that, 188 "
"pages into a book like this), then you can see this other aspect by "
"substituting <quote>free market</quote> every place I've spoken of "
"<quote>free culture.</quote> The point is the same, even if the interests "
"affecting culture are more fundamental."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9242
msgid ""
"The charge I've been making about the regulation of culture is the same "
"charge free marketers make about regulating markets. Everyone, of course, "
"concedes that some regulation of markets is necessary&mdash;at a minimum, we "
"need rules of property and contract, and courts to enforce both. Likewise, "
"in this culture debate, everyone concedes that at least some framework of "
"copyright is also required. But both perspectives vehemently insist that "
"just because some regulation is good, it doesn't follow that more regulation "
"is better. And both perspectives are constantly attuned to the ways in which "
"regulation simply enables the powerful industries of today to protect "
"themselves against the competitors of tomorrow."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
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msgid "Barry, Hank"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 198 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9256
msgid ""
"This is the single most dramatic effect of the shift in regulatory strategy "
"that I described in chapter <xref xrefstyle=\"select: labelnumber\" "
"linkend=\"property-i\"/>. The consequence of this massive threat of "
"liability tied to the murky boundaries of copyright law is that innovators "
"who want to innovate in this space can safely innovate only if they have the "
"sign-off from last generation's dominant industries.  That lesson has been "
"taught through a series of cases that were designed and executed to teach "
"venture capitalists a lesson. That lesson&mdash;what former Napster CEO Hank "
"Barry calls a <quote>nuclear pall</quote> that has fallen over the "
"Valley&mdash;has been learned."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9269
msgid ""
"Consider one example to make the point, a story whose beginning I told in "
"<citetitle>The Future of Ideas</citetitle> and which has progressed in a way "
"that even I (pessimist extraordinaire) would never have predicted."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:9273
msgid "Roberts, Michael"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9275
msgid ""
"In 1997, Michael Roberts launched a company called MP3.com.  MP3.com was "
"keen to remake the music business. Their goal was not just to facilitate new "
"ways to get access to content. Their goal was also to facilitate new ways to "
"create content. Unlike the major labels, MP3.com offered creators a venue to "
"distribute their creativity, without demanding an exclusive engagement from "
"the creators."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9283
msgid ""
"To make this system work, however, MP3.com needed a reliable way to "
"recommend music to its users. The idea behind this alternative was to "
"leverage the revealed preferences of music listeners to recommend new "
"artists. If you like Lyle Lovett, you're likely to enjoy Bonnie Raitt. And "
"so on.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9291
msgid ""
"This idea required a simple way to gather data about user preferences.  "
"MP3.com came up with an extraordinarily clever way to gather this preference "
"data. In January 2000, the company launched a service called "
"my.mp3.com. Using software provided by MP3.com, a user would sign into an "
"account and then insert into her computer a CD. The software would identify "
"the CD, and then give the user access to that content.  So, for example, if "
"you inserted a CD by Jill Sobule, then wherever you were&mdash;at work or at "
"home&mdash;you could get access to that music once you signed into your "
"account. The system was therefore a kind of music-lockbox."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 199 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9303
msgid ""
"No doubt some could use this system to illegally copy content. But that "
"opportunity existed with or without MP3.com. The aim of the my.mp3.com "
"service was to give users access to their own content, and as a by-product, "
"by seeing the content they already owned, to discover the kind of content "
"the users liked."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9312
msgid ""
"To make this system function, however, MP3.com needed to copy 50,000 CDs to "
"a server. (In principle, it could have been the user who uploaded the music, "
"but that would have taken a great deal of time, and would have produced a "
"product of questionable quality.) It therefore purchased 50,000 CDs from a "
"store, and started the process of making copies of those CDs. Again, it "
"would not serve the content from those copies to anyone except those who "
"authenticated that they had a copy of the CD they wanted to access. So while "
"this was 50,000 copies, it was 50,000 copies directed at giving customers "
"something they had already bought."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9327
msgid ""
"Nine days after MP3.com launched its service, the five major labels, headed "
"by the RIAA, brought a lawsuit against MP3.com. MP3.com settled with four of "
"the five. Nine months later, a federal judge found MP3.com to have been "
"guilty of willful infringement with respect to the fifth. Applying the law "
"as it is, the judge imposed a fine against MP3.com of $118 million. MP3.com "
"then settled with the remaining plaintiff, Vivendi Universal, paying over "
"$54 million. Vivendi purchased MP3.com just about a year later."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9337
msgid "That part of the story I have told before. Now consider its conclusion."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9340
msgid ""
"After Vivendi purchased MP3.com, Vivendi turned around and filed a "
"malpractice lawsuit against the lawyers who had advised it that they had a "
"good faith claim that the service they wanted to offer would be considered "
"legal under copyright law. This lawsuit alleged that it should have been "
"obvious that the courts would find this behavior illegal; therefore, this "
"lawsuit sought to punish any lawyer who had dared to suggest that the law "
"was less restrictive than the labels demanded."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 200 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9350
msgid ""
"The clear purpose of this lawsuit (which was settled for an unspecified "
"amount shortly after the story was no longer covered in the press) was to "
"send an unequivocal message to lawyers advising clients in this space: It is "
"not just your clients who might suffer if the content industry directs its "
"guns against them. It is also you. So those of you who believe the law "
"should be less restrictive should realize that such a view of the law will "
"cost you and your firm dearly."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:9361
msgid "Hummer, John"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:9363
msgid "Hummer Winblad"
msgstr ""

#.  f4. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9371
msgid ""
"See Joseph Menn, <quote>Universal, EMI Sue Napster Investor,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Los Angeles Times</citetitle>, 23 April 2003. For a parallel "
"argument about the effects on innovation in the distribution of music, see "
"Janelle Brown, <quote>The Music Revolution Will Not Be Digitized,</quote> "
"Salon.com, 1 June 2001, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #42</ulink>.  See also Jon "
"Healey, <quote>Online Music Services Besieged,</quote> <citetitle>Los "
"Angeles Times</citetitle>, 28 May 2001."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9365
msgid ""
"This strategy is not just limited to the lawyers. In April 2003, Universal "
"and EMI brought a lawsuit against Hummer Winblad, the venture capital firm "
"(VC) that had funded Napster at a certain stage of its development, its "
"cofounder ( John Hummer), and general partner (Hank Barry).<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> The claim here, as well, was that the VC should "
"have recognized the right of the content industry to control how the "
"industry should develop. They should be held personally liable for funding a "
"company whose business turned out to be beyond the law. Here again, the aim "
"of the lawsuit is transparent: Any VC now recognizes that if you fund a "
"company whose business is not approved of by the dinosaurs, you are at risk "
"not just in the marketplace, but in the courtroom as well.  Your investment "
"buys you not only a company, it also buys you a lawsuit.  So extreme has the "
"environment become that even car manufacturers are afraid of technologies "
"that touch content. In an article in <citetitle>Business 2.0</citetitle>, "
"Rafe Needleman describes a discussion with BMW: <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"2\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:9395
msgid "BMW"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:9410
msgid "Needleman, Rafe"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9406
msgid ""
"Rafe Needleman, <quote>Driving in Cars with MP3s,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Business 2.0</citetitle>, 16 June 2003, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #43</ulink>. I am grateful to "
"Dr. Mohammad Al-Ubaydli for this example.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9397
msgid ""
"I asked why, with all the storage capacity and computer power in the car, "
"there was no way to play MP3 files. I was told that BMW engineers in Germany "
"had rigged a new vehicle to play MP3s via the car's built-in sound system, "
"but that the company's marketing and legal departments weren't comfortable "
"with pushing this forward for release stateside. Even today, no new cars are "
"sold in the United States with bona fide MP3 players. &hellip; <placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9415
msgid ""
"This is the world of the mafia&mdash;filled with <quote>your money or your "
"life</quote> offers, governed in the end not by courts but by the threats "
"that the law empowers copyright holders to exercise. It is a system that "
"will obviously and necessarily stifle new innovation. It is hard enough to "
"start a company. It is impossibly hard if that company is constantly "
"threatened by litigation."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 201 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9425
msgid ""
"The point is not that businesses should have a right to start illegal "
"enterprises. The point is the definition of <quote>illegal.</quote> The law "
"is a mess of uncertainty. We have no good way to know how it should apply to "
"new technologies. Yet by reversing our tradition of judicial deference, and "
"by embracing the astonishingly high penalties that copyright law imposes, "
"that uncertainty now yields a reality which is far more conservative than is "
"right. If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we'd not "
"only have fewer parking tickets, we'd also have much less driving. The same "
"principle applies to innovation. If innovation is constantly checked by this "
"uncertain and unlimited liability, we will have much less vibrant innovation "
"and much less creativity."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9440
msgid ""
"The point is directly parallel to the crunchy-lefty point about fair "
"use. Whatever the <quote>real</quote> law is, realism about the effect of "
"law in both contexts is the same. This wildly punitive system of regulation "
"will systematically stifle creativity and innovation. It will protect some "
"industries and some creators, but it will harm industry and creativity "
"generally. Free market and free culture depend upon vibrant competition.  "
"Yet the effect of the law today is to stifle just this kind of competition.  "
"The effect is to produce an overregulated culture, just as the effect of too "
"much control in the market is to produce an overregulatedregulated market."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 202 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9452
msgid ""
"The building of a permission culture, rather than a free culture, is the "
"first important way in which the changes I have described will burden "
"innovation. A permission culture means a lawyer's culture&mdash;a culture in "
"which the ability to create requires a call to your lawyer. Again, I am not "
"antilawyer, at least when they're kept in their proper place. I am certainly "
"not antilaw. But our profession has lost the sense of its limits. And "
"leaders in our profession have lost an appreciation of the high costs that "
"our profession imposes upon others. The inefficiency of the law is an "
"embarrassment to our tradition. And while I believe our profession should "
"therefore do everything it can to make the law more efficient, it should at "
"least do everything it can to limit the reach of the law where the law is "
"not doing any good. The transaction costs buried within a permission culture "
"are enough to bury a wide range of creativity.  Someone needs to do a lot of "
"justifying to justify that result.  The uncertainty of the law is one burden "
"on innovation. There is a second burden that operates more directly. This is "
"the effort by many in the content industry to use the law to directly "
"regulate the technology of the Internet so that it better protects their "
"content."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9474
msgid ""
"The motivation for this response is obvious. The Internet enables the "
"efficient spread of content. That efficiency is a feature of the Internet's "
"design. But from the perspective of the content industry, this feature is a "
"<quote>bug.</quote> The efficient spread of content means that content "
"distributors have a harder time controlling the distribution of content.  "
"One obvious response to this efficiency is thus to make the Internet less "
"efficient. If the Internet enables <quote>piracy,</quote> then, this "
"response says, we should break the kneecaps of the Internet."
msgstr ""

#.  f6. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9489
msgid ""
"<quote>Copyright and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World,</quote> "
"GartnerG2 and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law "
"School (2003), 33&ndash;35, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #44</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#.  f7. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9502
msgid "GartnerG2, 26&ndash;27."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9485
msgid ""
"The examples of this form of legislation are many. At the urging of the "
"content industry, some in Congress have threatened legislation that would "
"require computers to determine whether the content they access is protected "
"or not, and to disable the spread of protected content.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Congress has already launched proceedings to "
"explore a mandatory <quote>broadcast flag</quote> that would be required on "
"any device capable of transmitting digital video (i.e., a computer), and "
"that would disable the copying of any content that is marked with a "
"broadcast flag. Other members of Congress have proposed immunizing content "
"providers from liability for technology they might deploy that would hunt "
"down copyright violators and disable their machines.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 203 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9506
msgid ""
"In one sense, these solutions seem sensible. If the problem is the code, why "
"not regulate the code to remove the problem. But any regulation of technical "
"infrastructure will always be tuned to the particular technology of the "
"day. It will impose significant burdens and costs on the technology, but "
"will likely be eclipsed by advances around exactly those requirements."
msgstr ""

#.  f8. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9520
msgid ""
"See David McGuire, <quote>Tech Execs Square Off Over Piracy,</quote> "
"Newsbytes, February 2002 (Entertainment)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
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msgid "Intel"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9516
msgid ""
"In March 2002, a broad coalition of technology companies, led by Intel, "
"tried to get Congress to see the harm that such legislation would "
"impose.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Their argument was "
"obviously not that copyright should not be protected. Instead, they argued, "
"any protection should not do more harm than good.  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9529
msgid ""
"There is one more obvious way in which this war has harmed "
"innovation&mdash;again, a story that will be quite familiar to the free "
"market crowd."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9534
msgid ""
"Copyright may be property, but like all property, it is also a form of "
"regulation. It is a regulation that benefits some and harms others.  When "
"done right, it benefits creators and harms leeches. When done wrong, it is "
"regulation the powerful use to defeat competitors."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9546
msgid ""
"Jessica Litman, <citetitle>Digital Copyright</citetitle> (Amherst, N.Y.: "
"Prometheus Books, 2001).  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9540
msgid ""
"As I described in chapter <xref xrefstyle=\"select: labelnumber\" "
"linkend=\"property-i\"/>, despite this feature of copyright as regulation, "
"and subject to important qualifications outlined by Jessica Litman in her "
"book <citetitle>Digital Copyright</citetitle>,<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"0\"/> overall this history of copyright is not bad. As chapter 10 "
"details, when new technologies have come along, Congress has struck a "
"balance to assure that the new is protected from the old. Compulsory, or "
"statutory, licenses have been one part of that strategy. Free use (as in the "
"case of the VCR) has been another."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9557
msgid ""
"But that pattern of deference to new technologies has now changed with the "
"rise of the Internet. Rather than striking a balance between the claims of a "
"new technology and the legitimate rights of content creators, both the "
"courts and Congress have imposed legal restrictions that will have the "
"effect of smothering the new to benefit the old."
msgstr ""

#.  f10. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9566
msgid ""
"The only circuit court exception is found in <citetitle>Recording Industry "
"Association of America (RIAA)</citetitle> v. <citetitle>Diamond Multimedia "
"Systems</citetitle>, 180 F. 3d 1072 (9th Cir. 1999). There the court of "
"appeals for the Ninth Circuit reasoned that makers of a portable MP3 player "
"were not liable for contributory copyright infringement for a device that is "
"unable to record or redistribute music (a device whose only copying function "
"is to render portable a music file already stored on a user's hard drive).  "
"At the district court level, the only exception is found in "
"<citetitle>Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, "
"Inc</citetitle>. v. <citetitle>Grokster, Ltd</citetitle>., 259 F. Supp. 2d "
"1029 (C.D.  Cal., 2003), where the court found the link between the "
"distributor and any given user's conduct too attenuated to make the "
"distributor liable for contributory or vicarious infringement liability."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:9584
msgid "Tauzin, Billy"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:9600
msgid "Hollings, Fritz"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9584
msgid ""
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> For example, in July 2002, "
"Representative Howard Berman introduced the Peer-to-Peer Piracy Prevention "
"Act (H.R. 5211), which would immunize copyright holders from liability for "
"damage done to computers when the copyright holders use technology to stop "
"copyright infringement. In August 2002, Representative Billy Tauzin "
"introduced a bill to mandate that technologies capable of rebroadcasting "
"digital copies of films broadcast on TV (i.e., computers) respect a "
"<quote>broadcast flag</quote> that would disable copying of that "
"content. And in March of the same year, Senator Fritz Hollings introduced "
"the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act, which mandated "
"copyright protection technology in all digital media devices. See GartnerG2, "
"<quote>Copyright and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World,</quote> 27 June "
"2003, 33&ndash;34, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #44</ulink>.  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"2\"/> "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"3\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9564
msgid ""
"The response by the courts has been fairly universal.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> It has been mirrored in the responses "
"threatened and actually implemented by Congress. I won't catalog all of "
"those responses here.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> But there is "
"one example that captures the flavor of them all. This is the story of the "
"demise of Internet radio."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9613
msgid ""
"As I described in chapter <xref xrefstyle=\"select: labelnumber\" "
"linkend=\"pirates\"/>, when a radio station plays a song, the recording "
"artist doesn't get paid for that <quote>radio performance</quote> unless he "
"or she is also the composer. So, for example if Marilyn Monroe had recorded "
"a version of <quote>Happy Birthday</quote>&mdash;to memorialize her famous "
"performance before President Kennedy at Madison Square Garden&mdash; then "
"whenever that recording was played on the radio, the current copyright "
"owners of <quote>Happy Birthday</quote> would get some money, whereas "
"Marilyn Monroe would not.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9625
msgid ""
"The reasoning behind this balance struck by Congress makes some sense. The "
"justification was that radio was a kind of advertising. The recording artist "
"thus benefited because by playing her music, the radio station was making it "
"more likely that her records would be purchased.  Thus, the recording artist "
"got something, even if only indirectly.  Probably this reasoning had less to "
"do with the result than with the power of radio stations: Their lobbyists "
"were quite good at stopping any efforts to get Congress to require "
"compensation to the recording artists."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9636
msgid ""
"Enter Internet radio. Like regular radio, Internet radio is a technology to "
"stream content from a broadcaster to a listener. The broadcast travels "
"across the Internet, not across the ether of radio spectrum.  Thus, I can "
"<quote>tune in</quote> to an Internet radio station in Berlin while sitting "
"in San Francisco, even though there's no way for me to tune in to a regular "
"radio station much beyond the San Francisco metropolitan area."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9645
msgid ""
"This feature of the architecture of Internet radio means that there are "
"potentially an unlimited number of radio stations that a user could tune in "
"to using her computer, whereas under the existing architecture for broadcast "
"radio, there is an obvious limit to the number of broadcasters and clear "
"broadcast frequencies. Internet radio could therefore be more competitive "
"than regular radio; it could provide a wider range of selections. And "
"because the potential audience for Internet radio is the whole world, niche "
"stations could easily develop and market their content to a relatively large "
"number of users worldwide. According to some estimates, more than eighty "
"million users worldwide have tuned in to this new form of radio."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 205 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9661
msgid ""
"Internet radio is thus to radio what FM was to AM. It is an improvement "
"potentially vastly more significant than the FM improvement over AM, since "
"not only is the technology better, so, too, is the competition. Indeed, "
"there is a direct parallel between the fight to establish FM radio and the "
"fight to protect Internet radio. As one author describes Howard Armstrong's "
"struggle to enable FM radio,"
msgstr ""

#.  f12. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9685
msgid "Lessing, 239."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9671
msgid ""
"An almost unlimited number of FM stations was possible in the shortwaves, "
"thus ending the unnatural restrictions imposed on radio in the crowded "
"longwaves. If FM were freely developed, the number of stations would be "
"limited only by economics and competition rather than by technical "
"restrictions. &hellip; Armstrong likened the situation that had grown up in "
"radio to that following the invention of the printing press, when "
"governments and ruling interests attempted to control this new instrument of "
"mass communications by imposing restrictive licenses on it. This tyranny was "
"broken only when it became possible for men freely to acquire printing "
"presses and freely to run them. FM in this sense was as great an invention "
"as the printing presses, for it gave radio the opportunity to strike off its "
"shackles.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  f13. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9695
msgid "Ibid., 229."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9690
msgid ""
"This potential for FM radio was never realized&mdash;not because Armstrong "
"was wrong about the technology, but because he underestimated the power of "
"<quote>vested interests, habits, customs and legislation</quote><placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> to retard the growth of this competing "
"technology."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9700
msgid ""
"Now the very same claim could be made about Internet radio. For again, there "
"is no technical limitation that could restrict the number of Internet radio "
"stations. The only restrictions on Internet radio are those imposed by the "
"law. Copyright law is one such law. So the first question we should ask is, "
"what copyright rules would govern Internet radio?"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 206 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9712
msgid ""
"But here the power of the lobbyists is reversed. Internet radio is a new "
"industry. The recording artists, on the other hand, have a very powerful "
"lobby, the RIAA. Thus when Congress considered the phenomenon of Internet "
"radio in 1995, the lobbyists had primed Congress to adopt a different rule "
"for Internet radio than the rule that applies to terrestrial radio. While "
"terrestrial radio does not have to pay our hypothetical Marilyn Monroe when "
"it plays her hypothetical recording of <quote>Happy Birthday</quote> on the "
"air, <emphasis>Internet radio does</emphasis>. Not only is the law not "
"neutral toward Internet radio&mdash;the law actually burdens Internet radio "
"more than it burdens terrestrial radio."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:9751
msgid "CARP (Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel)"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9734
msgid ""
"This example was derived from fees set by the original Copyright Arbitration "
"Royalty Panel (CARP) proceedings, and is drawn from an example offered by "
"Professor William Fisher. Conference Proceedings, iLaw (Stanford), 3 July "
"2003, on file with author. Professors Fisher and Zittrain submitted "
"testimony in the CARP proceeding that was ultimately rejected.  See Jonathan "
"Zittrain, Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings and Ephemeral "
"Recordings, Docket No. 2000-9, CARP DTRA 1 and 2, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #45</ulink>.  For an excellent "
"analysis making a similar point, see Randal C. Picker, <quote>Copyright as "
"Entry Policy: The Case of Digital Distribution,</quote> <citetitle>Antitrust "
"Bulletin</citetitle> (Summer/Fall 2002): 461: <quote>This was not confusion, "
"these are just old-fashioned entry barriers. Analog radio stations are "
"protected from digital entrants, reducing entry in radio and diversity. Yes, "
"this is done in the name of getting royalties to copyright holders, but, "
"absent the play of powerful interests, that could have been done in a "
"media-neutral way.</quote> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9727
msgid ""
"This financial burden is not slight. As Harvard law professor William Fisher "
"estimates, if an Internet radio station distributed adfree popular music to "
"(on average) ten thousand listeners, twenty-four hours a day, the total "
"artist fees that radio station would owe would be over $1 million a "
"year.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> A regular radio station "
"broadcasting the same content would pay no equivalent fee."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9759
msgid ""
"The burden is not financial only. Under the original rules that were "
"proposed, an Internet radio station (but not a terrestrial radio station) "
"would have to collect the following data from <emphasis>every listening "
"transaction</emphasis>:"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9767
msgid "name of the service;"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9770
msgid "channel of the program (AM/FM stations use station ID);"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9773
msgid "type of program (archived/looped/live);"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9776
msgid "date of transmission;"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9779
msgid "time of transmission;"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9782
msgid "time zone of origination of transmission;"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9785
msgid "numeric designation of the place of the sound recording within the program;"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9788
msgid "duration of transmission (to nearest second);"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9791
msgid "sound recording title;"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9794
msgid "ISRC code of the recording;"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9797
msgid ""
"release year of the album per copyright notice and in the case of "
"compilation albums, the release year of the album and copy- right date of "
"the track;"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9800
msgid "featured recording artist;"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9803
msgid "retail album title;"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9806
msgid "recording label;"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9809
msgid "UPC code of the retail album;"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9812
msgid "catalog number;"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9815
msgid "copyright owner information;"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9818
msgid "musical genre of the channel or program (station format);"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9821
msgid "name of the service or entity;"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9824
msgid "channel or program;"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9827
msgid "date and time that the user logged in (in the user's time zone);"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9830
msgid "date and time that the user logged out (in the user's time zone);"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9833
msgid "time zone where the signal was received (user);"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9836
msgid "unique user identifier;"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9839
msgid "the country in which the user received the transmissions."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9844
msgid ""
"The Librarian of Congress eventually suspended these reporting requirements, "
"pending further study. And he also changed the original rates set by the "
"arbitration panel charged with setting rates. But the basic difference "
"between Internet radio and terrestrial radio remains: Internet radio has to "
"pay a <emphasis>type of copyright fee</emphasis> that terrestrial radio does "
"not."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9852
msgid ""
"Why? What justifies this difference? Was there any study of the economic "
"consequences from Internet radio that would justify these differences? Was "
"the motive to protect artists against piracy?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:9856 freeculture.xml:14498
msgid "Real Networks"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9861
msgid ""
"In a rare bit of candor, one RIAA expert admitted what seemed obvious to "
"everyone at the time. As Alex Alben, vice president for Public Policy at "
"Real Networks, told me,"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 208 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9867
msgid ""
"The RIAA, which was representing the record labels, presented some testimony "
"about what they thought a willing buyer would pay to a willing seller, and "
"it was much higher. It was ten times higher than what radio stations pay to "
"perform the same songs for the same period of time. And so the attorneys "
"representing the webcasters asked the RIAA, &hellip; <quote>How do you come "
"up with a rate that's so much higher? Why is it worth more than radio? "
"Because here we have hundreds of thousands of webcasters who want to pay, "
"and that should establish the market rate, and if you set the rate so high, "
"you're going to drive the small webcasters out of business. &hellip;</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9886
msgid ""
"And the RIAA experts said, <quote>Well, we don't really model this as an "
"industry with thousands of webcasters, <emphasis>we think it should be an "
"industry with, you know, five or seven big players who can pay a high rate "
"and it's a stable, predictable market</emphasis>.</quote> (Emphasis added.)"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9895
msgid ""
"Translation: The aim is to use the law to eliminate competition, so that "
"this platform of potentially immense competition, which would cause the "
"diversity and range of content available to explode, would not cause pain to "
"the dinosaurs of old. There is no one, on either the right or the left, who "
"should endorse this use of the law. And yet there is practically no one, on "
"either the right or the left, who is doing anything effective to prevent it."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:9905
msgid "Corrupting Citizens"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9907
msgid ""
"Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives "
"dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity "
"for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9913
msgid ""
"In addition to these important harms, there is one more that was important "
"to our forebears, but seems forgotten today. Overregulation corrupts "
"citizens and weakens the rule of law."
msgstr ""

#.  f15. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9922
msgid ""
"Mike Graziano and Lee Rainie, <quote>The Music Downloading Deluge,</quote> "
"Pew Internet and American Life Project (24 April 2001), available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #46</ulink>.  The Pew Internet "
"and American Life Project reported that 37 million Americans had downloaded "
"music files from the Internet by early 2001."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 209 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9918
msgid ""
"The war that is being waged today is a war of prohibition. As with every war "
"of prohibition, it is targeted against the behavior of a very large number "
"of citizens. According to <citetitle>The New York Times</citetitle>, 43 "
"million Americans downloaded music in May 2002.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> According to the RIAA, the behavior of those 43 "
"million Americans is a felony. We thus have a set of rules that transform 20 "
"percent of America into criminals. As the RIAA launches lawsuits against not "
"only the Napsters and Kazaas of the world, but against students building "
"search engines, and increasingly against ordinary users downloading content, "
"the technologies for sharing will advance to further protect and hide "
"illegal use. It is an arms race or a civil war, with the extremes of one "
"side inviting a more extreme response by the other."
msgstr ""

#.  f16. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9956
msgid ""
"Alex Pham, <quote>The Labels Strike Back: N.Y. Girl Settles RIAA "
"Case,</quote> <citetitle>Los Angeles Times</citetitle>, 10 September 2003, "
"Business."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9943
msgid ""
"The content industry's tactics exploit the failings of the American legal "
"system. When the RIAA brought suit against Jesse Jordan, it knew that in "
"Jordan it had found a scapegoat, not a defendant. The threat of having to "
"pay either all the money in the world in damages ($15,000,000) or almost all "
"the money in the world to defend against paying all the money in the world "
"in damages ($250,000 in legal fees)  led Jordan to choose to pay all the "
"money he had in the world ($12,000) to make the suit go away. The same "
"strategy animates the RIAA's suits against individual users. In September "
"2003, the RIAA sued 261 individuals&mdash;including a twelve-year-old girl "
"living in public housing and a seventy-year-old man who had no idea what "
"file sharing was.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> As these "
"scapegoats discovered, it will always cost more to defend against these "
"suits than it would cost to simply settle. (The twelve year old, for "
"example, like Jesse Jordan, paid her life savings of $2,000 to settle the "
"case.) Our law is an awful system for defending rights. It is an "
"embarrassment to our tradition. And the consequence of our law as it is, is "
"that those with the power can use the law to quash any rights they oppose."
msgstr ""

#.  f17. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9978
msgid ""
"Jeffrey A. Miron and Jeffrey Zwiebel, <quote>Alcohol Consumption During "
"Prohibition,</quote> <citetitle>American Economic Review</citetitle> 81, "
"no. 2 (1991): 242."
msgstr ""

#.  f18. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9986
msgid ""
"National Drug Control Policy: Hearing Before the House Government Reform "
"Committee, 108th Cong., 1st sess. (5 March 2003) (statement of John "
"P. Walters, director of National Drug Control Policy)."
msgstr ""

#.  f19. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9996
msgid ""
"See James Andreoni, Brian Erard, and Jonathon Feinstein, <quote>Tax "
"Compliance,</quote> <citetitle>Journal of Economic Literature</citetitle> 36 "
"(1998): 818 (survey of compliance literature)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:10003
msgid "alcohol prohibition"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:9968
msgid ""
"Wars of prohibition are nothing new in America. This one is just something "
"more extreme than anything we've seen before. We experimented with alcohol "
"prohibition, at a time when the per capita consumption of alcohol was 1.5 "
"gallons per capita per year. The war against drinking initially reduced that "
"consumption to just 30 percent of its preprohibition levels, but by the end "
"of prohibition, consumption was up to 70 percent of the preprohibition "
"level. Americans were drinking just about as much, but now, a vast number "
"were criminals.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> We have launched a "
"war on drugs aimed at reducing the consumption of regulated narcotics that 7 "
"percent (or 16 million) Americans now use.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"1\"/> That is a drop from the high (so to speak) in 1979 of 14 percent "
"of the population. We regulate automobiles to the point where the vast "
"majority of Americans violate the law every day. We run such a complex tax "
"system that a majority of cash businesses regularly cheat.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"2\"/> We pride ourselves on our <quote>free "
"society,</quote> but an endless array of ordinary behavior is regulated "
"within our society. And as a result, a huge proportion of Americans "
"regularly violate at least some law.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"3\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:10021
msgid "law schools"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10006
msgid ""
"This state of affairs is not without consequence. It is a particularly "
"salient issue for teachers like me, whose job it is to teach law students "
"about the importance of <quote>ethics.</quote> As my colleague Charlie "
"Nesson told a class at Stanford, each year law schools admit thousands of "
"students who have illegally downloaded music, illegally consumed alcohol and "
"sometimes drugs, illegally worked without paying taxes, illegally driven "
"cars. These are kids for whom behaving illegally is increasingly the "
"norm. And then we, as law professors, are supposed to teach them how to "
"behave ethically&mdash;how to say no to bribes, or keep client funds "
"separate, or honor a demand to disclose a document that will mean that your "
"case is over. Generations of Americans&mdash;more significantly in some "
"parts of America than in others, but still, everywhere in America "
"today&mdash;can't live their lives both normally and legally, since "
"<quote>normally</quote> entails a certain degree of illegality.  "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10024
msgid ""
"The response to this general illegality is either to enforce the law more "
"severely or to change the law. We, as a society, have to learn how to make "
"that choice more rationally. Whether a law makes sense depends, in part, at "
"least, upon whether the costs of the law, both intended and collateral, "
"outweigh the benefits. If the costs, intended and collateral, do outweigh "
"the benefits, then the law ought to be changed.  Alternatively, if the costs "
"of the existing system are much greater than the costs of an alternative, "
"then we have a good reason to consider the alternative."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 211 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10037
msgid ""
"My point is not the idiotic one: Just because people violate a law, we "
"should therefore repeal it. Obviously, we could reduce murder statistics "
"dramatically by legalizing murder on Wednesdays and Fridays. But that "
"wouldn't make any sense, since murder is wrong every day of the week. A "
"society is right to ban murder always and everywhere."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10044
msgid ""
"My point is instead one that democracies understood for generations, but "
"that we recently have learned to forget. The rule of law depends upon people "
"obeying the law. The more often, and more repeatedly, we as citizens "
"experience violating the law, the less we respect the law. Obviously, in "
"most cases, the important issue is the law, not respect for the law. I don't "
"care whether the rapist respects the law or not; I want to catch and "
"incarcerate the rapist. But I do care whether my students respect the "
"law. And I do care if the rules of law sow increasing disrespect because of "
"the extreme of regulation they impose.  Twenty million Americans have come "
"of age since the Internet introduced this different idea of "
"<quote>sharing.</quote> We need to be able to call these twenty million "
"Americans <quote>citizens,</quote> not <quote>felons.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10058
msgid ""
"When at least forty-three million citizens download content from the "
"Internet, and when they use tools to combine that content in ways "
"unauthorized by copyright holders, the first question we should be asking is "
"not how best to involve the FBI. The first question should be whether this "
"particular prohibition is really necessary in order to achieve the proper "
"ends that copyright law serves. Is there another way to assure that artists "
"get paid without transforming forty-three million Americans into felons? "
"Does it make sense if there are other ways to assure that artists get paid "
"without transforming America into a nation of felons?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10070
msgid "This abstract point can be made more clear with a particular example."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 212 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10073
msgid ""
"We all own CDs. Many of us still own phonograph records. These pieces of "
"plastic encode music that in a certain sense we have bought.  The law "
"protects our right to buy and sell that plastic: It is not a copyright "
"infringement for me to sell all my classical records at a used record store "
"and buy jazz records to replace them. That <quote>use</quote> of the "
"recordings is free."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10084
msgid ""
"But as the MP3 craze has demonstrated, there is another use of phonograph "
"records that is effectively free. Because these recordings were made without "
"copy-protection technologies, I am <quote>free</quote> to copy, or "
"<quote>rip,</quote> music from my records onto a computer hard disk. Indeed, "
"Apple Corporation went so far as to suggest that <quote>freedom</quote> was "
"a right: In a series of commercials, Apple endorsed the <quote>Rip, Mix, "
"Burn</quote> capacities of digital technologies."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:10092
msgid "Adromeda"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10094
msgid ""
"This <quote>use</quote> of my records is certainly valuable. I have begun a "
"large process at home of ripping all of my and my wife's CDs, and storing "
"them in one archive. Then, using Apple's iTunes, or a wonderful program "
"called Andromeda, we can build different play lists of our music: Bach, "
"Baroque, Love Songs, Love Songs of Significant Others&mdash;the potential is "
"endless. And by reducing the costs of mixing play lists, these technologies "
"help build a creativity with play lists that is itself independently "
"valuable. Compilations of songs are creative and meaningful in their own "
"right."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10105
msgid ""
"This use is enabled by unprotected media&mdash;either CDs or records.  But "
"unprotected media also enable file sharing. File sharing threatens (or so "
"the content industry believes) the ability of creators to earn a fair return "
"from their creativity. And thus, many are beginning to experiment with "
"technologies to eliminate unprotected media. These technologies, for "
"example, would enable CDs that could not be ripped. Or they might enable spy "
"programs to identify ripped content on people's machines."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 213 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10115
msgid ""
"If these technologies took off, then the building of large archives of your "
"own music would become quite difficult. You might hang in hacker circles, "
"and get technology to disable the technologies that protect the "
"content. Trading in those technologies is illegal, but maybe that doesn't "
"bother you much. In any case, for the vast majority of people, these "
"protection technologies would effectively destroy the archiving use of "
"CDs. The technology, in other words, would force us all back to the world "
"where we either listened to music by manipulating pieces of plastic or were "
"part of a massively complex <quote>digital rights management</quote> system."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10129
msgid ""
"If the only way to assure that artists get paid were the elimination of the "
"ability to freely move content, then these technologies to interfere with "
"the freedom to move content would be justifiable. But what if there were "
"another way to assure that artists are paid, without locking down any "
"content? What if, in other words, a different system could assure "
"compensation to artists while also preserving the freedom to move content "
"easily?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10138
msgid ""
"My point just now is not to prove that there is such a system. I offer a "
"version of such a system in the last chapter of this book. For now, the only "
"point is the relatively uncontroversial one: If a different system achieved "
"the same legitimate objectives that the existing copyright system achieved, "
"but left consumers and creators much more free, then we'd have a very good "
"reason to pursue this alternative&mdash;namely, freedom.  The choice, in "
"other words, would not be between property and piracy; the choice would be "
"between different property systems and the freedoms each allowed."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10149
msgid ""
"I believe there is a way to assure that artists are paid without turning "
"forty-three million Americans into felons. But the salient feature of this "
"alternative is that it would lead to a very different market for producing "
"and distributing creativity. The dominant few, who today control the vast "
"majority of the distribution of content in the world, would no longer "
"exercise this extreme of control. Rather, they would go the way of the "
"horse-drawn buggy."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10158
msgid ""
"Except that this generation's buggy manufacturers have already saddled "
"Congress, and are riding the law to protect themselves against this new form "
"of competition. For them the choice is between fortythree million Americans "
"as criminals and their own survival."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10164
msgid ""
"It is understandable why they choose as they do. It is not understandable "
"why we as a democracy continue to choose as we do. Jack Valenti is charming; "
"but not so charming as to justify giving up a tradition as deep and "
"important as our tradition of free culture.  There's one more aspect to this "
"corruption that is particularly important to civil liberties, and follows "
"directly from any war of prohibition.  As Electronic Frontier Foundation "
"attorney Fred von Lohmann describes, this is the <quote>collateral "
"damage</quote> that <quote>arises whenever you turn a very large percentage "
"of the population into criminals.</quote> This is the collateral damage to "
"civil liberties generally.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:10183 freeculture.xml:10292
msgid "von Lohmann, Fred"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10181
msgid ""
"<quote>If you can treat someone as a putative lawbreaker,</quote> von "
"Lohmann explains, <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10187
msgid ""
"then all of a sudden a lot of basic civil liberty protections evaporate to "
"one degree or another. &hellip; If you're a copyright infringer, how can you "
"hope to have any privacy rights? If you're a copyright infringer, how can "
"you hope to be secure against seizures of your computer? How can you hope to "
"continue to receive Internet access? &hellip; Our sensibilities change as "
"soon as we think, <quote>Oh, well, but that person's a criminal, a "
"lawbreaker.</quote> Well, what this campaign against file sharing has done "
"is turn a remarkable percentage of the American Internet-using population "
"into <quote>lawbreakers.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10199
msgid ""
"And the consequence of this transformation of the American public into "
"criminals is that it becomes trivial, as a matter of due process, to "
"effectively erase much of the privacy most would presume."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10204
msgid ""
"Users of the Internet began to see this generally in 2003 as the RIAA "
"launched its campaign to force Internet service providers to turn over the "
"names of customers who the RIAA believed were violating copyright "
"law. Verizon fought that demand and lost. With a simple request to a judge, "
"and without any notice to the customer at all, the identity of an Internet "
"user is revealed."
msgstr ""

#.  f20. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10222
msgid ""
"See Frank Ahrens, <quote>RIAA's Lawsuits Meet Surprised Targets; Single "
"Mother in Calif., 12-Year-Old Girl in N.Y. Among Defendants,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Washington Post</citetitle>, 10 September 2003, E1; Chris Cobbs, "
"<quote>Worried Parents Pull Plug on File `Stealing'; With the Music Industry "
"Cracking Down on File Swapping, Parents are Yanking Software from Home PCs "
"to Avoid Being Sued,</quote> <citetitle>Orlando Sentinel "
"Tribune</citetitle>, 30 August 2003, C1; Jefferson Graham, <quote>Recording "
"Industry Sues Parents,</quote> <citetitle>USA Today</citetitle>, 15 "
"September 2003, 4D; John Schwartz, <quote>She Says She's No Music Pirate. No "
"Snoop Fan, Either,</quote> <citetitle>New York Times</citetitle>, 25 "
"September 2003, C1; Margo Varadi, <quote>Is Brianna a Criminal?</quote> "
"<citetitle>Toronto Star</citetitle>, 18 September 2003, P7."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10213
msgid ""
"The RIAA then expanded this campaign, by announcing a general strategy to "
"sue individual users of the Internet who are alleged to have downloaded "
"copyrighted music from file-sharing systems. But as we've seen, the "
"potential damages from these suits are astronomical: If a family's computer "
"is used to download a single CD's worth of music, the family could be liable "
"for $2 million in damages. That didn't stop the RIAA from suing a number of "
"these families, just as they had sued Jesse Jordan.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  f21. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10240
msgid ""
"See <quote>Revealed: How RIAA Tracks Downloaders: Music Industry Discloses "
"Some Methods Used,</quote> CNN.com, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #47</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10236
msgid ""
"Even this understates the espionage that is being waged by the RIAA. A "
"report from CNN late last summer described a strategy the RIAA had adopted "
"to track Napster users.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Using a "
"sophisticated hashing algorithm, the RIAA took what is in effect a "
"fingerprint of every song in the Napster catalog. Any copy of one of those "
"MP3s will have the same <quote>fingerprint.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#.  f22. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10261
msgid ""
"See Jeff Adler, <quote>Cambridge: On Campus, Pirates Are Not "
"Penitent,</quote> <citetitle>Boston Globe</citetitle>, 18 May 2003, City "
"Weekly, 1; Frank Ahrens, <quote>Four Students Sued over Music Sites; "
"Industry Group Targets File Sharing at Colleges,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Washington Post</citetitle>, 4 April 2003, E1; Elizabeth "
"Armstrong, <quote>Students `Rip, Mix, Burn' at Their Own Risk,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Christian Science Monitor</citetitle>, 2 September 2003, 20; "
"Robert Becker and Angela Rozas, <quote>Music Pirate Hunt Turns to Loyola; "
"Two Students Names Are Handed Over; Lawsuit Possible,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Chicago Tribune</citetitle>, 16 July 2003, 1C; Beth Cox, "
"<quote>RIAA Trains Antipiracy Guns on Universities,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Internet News</citetitle>, 30 January 2003, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #48</ulink>; Benny Evangelista, "
"<quote>Download Warning 101: Freshman Orientation This Fall to Include "
"Record Industry Warnings Against File Sharing,</quote> <citetitle>San "
"Francisco Chronicle</citetitle>, 11 August 2003, E11; <quote>Raid, Letters "
"Are Weapons at Universities,</quote> <citetitle>USA Today</citetitle>, 26 "
"September 2000, 3D."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10249
msgid ""
"So imagine the following not-implausible scenario: Imagine a friend gives a "
"CD to your daughter&mdash;a collection of songs just like the cassettes you "
"used to make as a kid. You don't know, and neither does your daughter, where "
"these songs came from. But she copies these songs onto her computer. She "
"then takes her computer to college and connects it to a college network, and "
"if the college network is <quote>cooperating</quote> with the RIAA's "
"espionage, and she hasn't properly protected her content from the network "
"(do you know how to do that yourself ?), then the RIAA will be able to "
"identify your daughter as a <quote>criminal.</quote> And under the rules "
"that universities are beginning to deploy,<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"0\"/> your daughter can lose the right to use the university's computer "
"network.  She can, in some cases, be expelled."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10280
msgid ""
"Now, of course, she'll have the right to defend herself. You can hire a "
"lawyer for her (at $300 per hour, if you're lucky), and she can plead that "
"she didn't know anything about the source of the songs or that they came "
"from Napster. And it may well be that the university believes her. But the "
"university might not believe her. It might treat this "
"<quote>contraband</quote> as presumptive of guilt. And as any number of "
"college students have already learned, our presumptions about innocence "
"disappear in the middle of wars of prohibition. This war is no different.  "
"Says von Lohmann, <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10296
msgid ""
"So when we're talking about numbers like forty to sixty million Americans "
"that are essentially copyright infringers, you create a situation where the "
"civil liberties of those people are very much in peril in a general "
"matter. [I don't] think [there is any] analog where you could randomly "
"choose any person off the street and be confident that they were committing "
"an unlawful act that could put them on the hook for potential felony "
"liability or hundreds of millions of dollars of civil liability. Certainly "
"we all speed, but speeding isn't the kind of an act for which we routinely "
"forfeit civil liberties. Some people use drugs, and I think that's the "
"closest analog, [but] many have noted that the war against drugs has eroded "
"all of our civil liberties because it's treated so many Americans as "
"criminals. Well, I think it's fair to say that file sharing is an order of "
"magnitude larger number of Americans than drug use. &hellip; If forty to "
"sixty million Americans have become lawbreakers, then we're really on a "
"slippery slope to lose a lot of civil liberties for all forty to sixty "
"million of them."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10316
msgid ""
"When forty to sixty million Americans are considered "
"<quote>criminals</quote> under the law, and when the law could achieve the "
"same objective&mdash; securing rights to authors&mdash;without these "
"millions being considered <quote>criminals,</quote> who is the villain? "
"Americans or the law? Which is American, a constant war on our own people or "
"a concerted effort through our democracy to change our law?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><title>
#: freeculture.xml:10329
msgid "BALANCES"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
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msgid ""
"So here's the picture: You're standing at the side of the road. Your car is "
"on fire. You are angry and upset because in part you helped start the "
"fire. Now you don't know how to put it out. Next to you is a bucket, filled "
"with gasoline. Obviously, gasoline won't put the fire out."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10340
msgid ""
"As you ponder the mess, someone else comes along. In a panic, she grabs the "
"bucket. Before you have a chance to tell her to stop&mdash;or before she "
"understands just why she should stop&mdash;the bucket is in the air.  The "
"gasoline is about to hit the blazing car. And the fire that gasoline will "
"ignite is about to ignite everything around."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10348
msgid ""
"A war about copyright rages all around&mdash;and we're all focusing on the "
"wrong thing. No doubt, current technologies threaten existing businesses.  "
"No doubt they may threaten artists. But technologies change.  The industry "
"and technologists have plenty of ways to use technology to protect "
"themselves against the current threats of the Internet. This is a fire that "
"if let alone would burn itself out."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 219 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10357
msgid ""
"Yet policy makers are not willing to leave this fire to itself. Primed with "
"plenty of lobbyists' money, they are keen to intervene to eliminate the "
"problem they perceive. But the problem they perceive is not the real threat "
"this culture faces. For while we watch this small fire in the corner, there "
"is a massive change in the way culture is made that is happening all around."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10365
msgid ""
"Somehow we have to find a way to turn attention to this more important and "
"fundamental issue. Somehow we have to find a way to avoid pouring gasoline "
"onto this fire."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10370
msgid ""
"We have not found that way yet. Instead, we seem trapped in a simpler, "
"binary view. However much many people push to frame this debate more "
"broadly, it is the simple, binary view that remains. We rubberneck to look "
"at the fire when we should be keeping our eyes on the road."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10376
msgid ""
"This challenge has been my life these last few years. It has also been my "
"failure. In the two chapters that follow, I describe one small brace of "
"efforts, so far failed, to find a way to refocus this debate. We must "
"understand these failures if we're to understand what success will require."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
#: freeculture.xml:10386
msgid "CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Eldred"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:10388
msgid "Hawthorne, Nathaniel"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10391
msgid ""
"In 1995, a father was frustrated that his daughters didn't seem to like "
"Hawthorne. No doubt there was more than one such father, but at least one "
"did something about it. Eric Eldred, a retired computer programmer living in "
"New Hampshire, decided to put Hawthorne on the Web. An electronic version, "
"Eldred thought, with links to pictures and explanatory text, would make this "
"nineteenth-century author's work come alive."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10400
msgid ""
"It didn't work&mdash;at least for his daughters. They didn't find Hawthorne "
"any more interesting than before. But Eldred's experiment gave birth to a "
"hobby, and his hobby begat a cause: Eldred would build a library of public "
"domain works by scanning these works and making them available for free."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 221 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10407
msgid ""
"Eldred's library was not simply a copy of certain public domain works, "
"though even a copy would have been of great value to people across the world "
"who can't get access to printed versions of these works. Instead, Eldred was "
"producing derivative works from these public domain works. Just as Disney "
"turned Grimm into stories more accessible to the twentieth century, Eldred "
"transformed Hawthorne, and many others, into a form more "
"accessible&mdash;technically accessible&mdash;today."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10418
msgid ""
"Eldred's freedom to do this with Hawthorne's work grew from the same source "
"as Disney's. Hawthorne's <citetitle>Scarlet Letter</citetitle> had passed "
"into the public domain in 1907. It was free for anyone to take without the "
"permission of the Hawthorne estate or anyone else. Some, such as Dover Press "
"and Penguin Classics, take works from the public domain and produce printed "
"editions, which they sell in bookstores across the country. Others, such as "
"Disney, take these stories and turn them into animated cartoons, sometimes "
"successfully (<citetitle>Cinderella</citetitle>), sometimes not "
"(<citetitle>The Hunchback of Notre Dame</citetitle>, <citetitle>Treasure "
"Planet</citetitle>). These are all commercial publications of public domain "
"works."
msgstr ""

#.  f1. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10442
msgid ""
"There's a parallel here with pornography that is a bit hard to describe, but "
"it's a strong one. One phenomenon that the Internet created was a world of "
"noncommercial pornographers&mdash;people who were distributing porn but were "
"not making money directly or indirectly from that distribution.  Such a "
"class didn't exist before the Internet came into being because the costs of "
"distributing porn were so high. Yet this new class of distributors got "
"special attention in the Supreme Court, when the Court struck down the "
"Communications Decency Act of 1996. It was partly because of the burden on "
"noncommercial speakers that the statute was found to exceed Congress's "
"power. The same point could have been made about noncommercial publishers "
"after the advent of the Internet. The Eric Eldreds of the world before the "
"Internet were extremely few. Yet one would think it at least as important to "
"protect the Eldreds of the world as to protect noncommercial pornographers."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10431
msgid ""
"The Internet created the possibility of noncommercial publications of public "
"domain works. Eldred's is just one example. There are literally thousands of "
"others. Hundreds of thousands from across the world have discovered this "
"platform of expression and now use it to share works that are, by law, free "
"for the taking. This has produced what we might call the "
"<quote>noncommercial publishing industry,</quote> which before the Internet "
"was limited to people with large egos or with political or social "
"causes. But with the Internet, it includes a wide range of individuals and "
"groups dedicated to spreading culture generally.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10459
msgid ""
"As I said, Eldred lives in New Hampshire. In 1998, Robert Frost's collection "
"of poems <citetitle>New Hampshire</citetitle> was slated to pass into the "
"public domain. Eldred wanted to post that collection in his free public "
"library.  But Congress got in the way. As I described in chapter <xref "
"xrefstyle=\"select: labelnumber\" linkend=\"property-i\"/>, in 1998, for the "
"eleventh time in forty years, Congress extended the terms of existing "
"copyrights&mdash;this time by twenty years. Eldred would not be free to add "
"any works more recent than 1923 to his collection until 2019.  Indeed, no "
"copyrighted work would pass into the public domain until that year (and not "
"even then, if Congress extends the term again). By contrast, in the same "
"period, more than 1 million patents will pass into the public domain."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:10472 freeculture.xml:10482
msgid "Bono, Mary"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:10473 freeculture.xml:10483
msgid "Bono, Sonny"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10482
msgid ""
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"1\"/> The full text is: <quote>Sonny [Bono] wanted the term of "
"copyright protection to last forever. I am informed by staff that such a "
"change would violate the Constitution. I invite all of you to work with me "
"to strengthen our copyright laws in all of the ways available to us. As you "
"know, there is also Jack Valenti's proposal for a term to last forever less "
"one day. Perhaps the Committee may look at that next Congress,</quote> 144 "
"Cong. Rec. H9946, 9951-2 (October 7, 1998)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10477
msgid ""
"This was the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA), enacted in "
"memory of the congressman and former musician Sonny Bono, who, his widow, "
"Mary Bono, says, believed that <quote>copyrights should be "
"forever.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10495
msgid ""
"Eldred decided to fight this law. He first resolved to fight it through "
"civil disobedience. In a series of interviews, Eldred announced that he "
"would publish as planned, CTEA notwithstanding. But because of a second law "
"passed in 1998, the NET (No Electronic Theft) Act, his act of publishing "
"would make Eldred a felon&mdash;whether or not anyone complained. This was a "
"dangerous strategy for a disabled programmer to undertake."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10504
msgid ""
"It was here that I became involved in Eldred's battle. I was a "
"constitutional scholar whose first passion was constitutional "
"interpretation.  And though constitutional law courses never focus upon the "
"Progress Clause of the Constitution, it had always struck me as importantly "
"different. As you know, the Constitution says,"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10515
msgid ""
"Congress has the power to promote the Progress of Science &hellip; by "
"securing for limited Times to Authors &hellip; exclusive Right to their "
"&hellip; Writings. &hellip;"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10521
msgid ""
"As I've described, this clause is unique within the power-granting clause of "
"Article I, section 8 of our Constitution. Every other clause granting power "
"to Congress simply says Congress has the power to do something&mdash;for "
"example, to regulate <quote>commerce among the several states</quote> or "
"<quote>declare War.</quote> But here, the <quote>something</quote> is "
"something quite specific&mdash;to <quote>promote &hellip; "
"Progress</quote>&mdash;through means that are also specific&mdash; by "
"<quote>securing</quote> <quote>exclusive Rights</quote> (i.e., copyrights) "
"<quote>for limited Times.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:10540 freeculture.xml:12010
msgid "Jaszi, Peter"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10531
msgid ""
"In the past forty years, Congress has gotten into the practice of extending "
"existing terms of copyright protection. What puzzled me about this was, if "
"Congress has the power to extend existing terms, then the Constitution's "
"requirement that terms be <quote>limited</quote> will have no practical "
"effect. If every time a copyright is about to expire, Congress has the power "
"to extend its term, then Congress can achieve what the Constitution plainly "
"forbids&mdash;perpetual terms <quote>on the installment plan,</quote> as "
"Professor Peter Jaszi so nicely put it.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10543
msgid ""
"As an academic, my first response was to hit the books. I remember sitting "
"late at the office, scouring on-line databases for any serious consideration "
"of the question. No one had ever challenged Congress's practice of extending "
"existing terms. That failure may in part be why Congress seemed so "
"untroubled in its habit. That, and the fact that the practice had become so "
"lucrative for Congress. Congress knows that copyright owners will be willing "
"to pay a great deal of money to see their copyright terms extended. And so "
"Congress is quite happy to keep this gravy train going."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10554
msgid ""
"For this is the core of the corruption in our present system of "
"government. <quote>Corruption</quote> not in the sense that representatives "
"are bribed.  Rather, <quote>corruption</quote> in the sense that the system "
"induces the beneficiaries of Congress's acts to raise and give money to "
"Congress to induce it to act. There's only so much time; there's only so "
"much Congress can do. Why not limit its actions to those things it must "
"do&mdash;and those things that pay? Extending copyright terms pays."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10563
msgid ""
"If that's not obvious to you, consider the following: Say you're one of the "
"very few lucky copyright owners whose copyright continues to make money one "
"hundred years after it was created. The Estate of Robert Frost is a good "
"example. Frost died in 1963. His poetry continues to be extraordinarily "
"valuable. Thus the Robert Frost estate benefits greatly from any extension "
"of copyright, since no publisher would pay the estate any money if the poems "
"Frost wrote could be published by anyone for free."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10573
msgid ""
"So imagine the Robert Frost estate is earning $100,000 a year from three of "
"Frost's poems. And imagine the copyright for those poems is about to "
"expire. You sit on the board of the Robert Frost estate.  Your financial "
"adviser comes to your board meeting with a very grim report:"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 224 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10580
msgid ""
"<quote>Next year,</quote> the adviser announces, <quote>our copyrights in "
"works A, B, and C will expire. That means that after next year, we will no "
"longer be receiving the annual royalty check of $100,000 from the publishers "
"of those works.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10588
msgid ""
"<quote>There's a proposal in Congress, however,</quote> she continues, "
"<quote>that could change this. A few congressmen are floating a bill to "
"extend the terms of copyright by twenty years. That bill would be "
"extraordinarily valuable to us. So we should hope this bill passes.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10594
msgid ""
"<quote>Hope?</quote> a fellow board member says. <quote>Can't we be doing "
"something about it?</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10598
msgid ""
"<quote>Well, obviously, yes,</quote> the adviser responds. <quote>We could "
"contribute to the campaigns of a number of representatives to try to assure "
"that they support the bill.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10603
msgid ""
"You hate politics. You hate contributing to campaigns. So you want to know "
"whether this disgusting practice is worth it. <quote>How much would we get "
"if this extension were passed?</quote> you ask the adviser. <quote>How much "
"is it worth?</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10609
msgid ""
"<quote>Well,</quote> the adviser says, <quote>if you're confident that you "
"will continue to get at least $100,000 a year from these copyrights, and you "
"use the `discount rate' that we use to evaluate estate investments (6 "
"percent), then this law would be worth $1,146,000 to the estate.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10615
msgid ""
"You're a bit shocked by the number, but you quickly come to the correct "
"conclusion:"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10619
msgid ""
"<quote>So you're saying it would be worth it for us to pay more than "
"$1,000,000 in campaign contributions if we were confident those "
"contributions would assure that the bill was passed?</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10625
msgid ""
"<quote>Absolutely,</quote> the adviser responds. <quote>It is worth it to "
"you to contribute up to the `present value' of the income you expect from "
"these copyrights. Which for us means over $1,000,000.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 225 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10631
msgid ""
"You quickly get the point&mdash;you as the member of the board and, I trust, "
"you the reader. Each time copyrights are about to expire, every beneficiary "
"in the position of the Robert Frost estate faces the same choice: If they "
"can contribute to get a law passed to extend copyrights, they will benefit "
"greatly from that extension. And so each time copyrights are about to "
"expire, there is a massive amount of lobbying to get the copyright term "
"extended."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10642
msgid ""
"Thus a congressional perpetual motion machine: So long as legislation can be "
"bought (albeit indirectly), there will be all the incentive in the world to "
"buy further extensions of copyright."
msgstr ""

#.  f3. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10654
msgid ""
"Associated Press, <quote>Disney Lobbying for Copyright Extension No Mickey "
"Mouse Effort; Congress OKs Bill Granting Creators 20 More Years,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Chicago Tribune</citetitle>, 17 October 1998, 22."
msgstr ""

#.  f4. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10661
msgid ""
"See Nick Brown, <quote>Fair Use No More?: Copyright in the Information "
"Age,</quote> available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link "
"#49</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#.  f5. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10669
msgid ""
"Alan K. Ota, <quote>Disney in Washington: The Mouse That Roars,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Congressional Quarterly This Week</citetitle>, 8 August 1990, "
"available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #50</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10647
msgid ""
"In the lobbying that led to the passage of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term "
"Extension Act, this <quote>theory</quote> about incentives was proved "
"real. Ten of the thirteen original sponsors of the act in the House received "
"the maximum contribution from Disney's political action committee; in the "
"Senate, eight of the twelve sponsors received contributions.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> The RIAA and the MPAA are estimated to have "
"spent over $1.5 million lobbying in the 1998 election cycle. They paid out "
"more than $200,000 in campaign contributions.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"1\"/> Disney is estimated to have contributed more than $800,000 to "
"reelection campaigns in the cycle.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"2\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10676
msgid ""
"Constitutional law is not oblivious to the obvious. Or at least, it need not "
"be. So when I was considering Eldred's complaint, this reality about the "
"never-ending incentives to increase the copyright term was central to my "
"thinking. In my view, a pragmatic court committed to interpreting and "
"applying the Constitution of our framers would see that if Congress has the "
"power to extend existing terms, then there would be no effective "
"constitutional requirement that terms be <quote>limited.</quote> If they "
"could extend it once, they would extend it again and again and again."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 226 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10689
msgid ""
"It was also my judgment that <emphasis>this</emphasis> Supreme Court would "
"not allow Congress to extend existing terms. As anyone close to the Supreme "
"Court's work knows, this Court has increasingly restricted the power of "
"Congress when it has viewed Congress's actions as exceeding the power "
"granted to it by the Constitution. Among constitutional scholars, the most "
"famous example of this trend was the Supreme Court's decision in 1995 to "
"strike down a law that banned the possession of guns near schools."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10702
msgid ""
"Since 1937, the Supreme Court had interpreted Congress's granted powers very "
"broadly; so, while the Constitution grants Congress the power to regulate "
"only <quote>commerce among the several states</quote> (aka <quote>interstate "
"commerce</quote>), the Supreme Court had interpreted that power to include "
"the power to regulate any activity that merely affected interstate commerce."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10712
msgid ""
"As the economy grew, this standard increasingly meant that there was no "
"limit to Congress's power to regulate, since just about every activity, when "
"considered on a national scale, affects interstate commerce.  A Constitution "
"designed to limit Congress's power was instead interpreted to impose no "
"limit."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:10718 freeculture.xml:11503
msgid "Rehnquist, William H."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10720
msgid ""
"The Supreme Court, under Chief Justice Rehnquist's command, changed that in "
"<citetitle>United States</citetitle> v. <citetitle>Lopez</citetitle>. The "
"government had argued that possessing guns near schools affected interstate "
"commerce. Guns near schools increase crime, crime lowers property values, "
"and so on. In the oral argument, the Chief Justice asked the government "
"whether there was any activity that would not affect interstate commerce "
"under the reasoning the government advanced. The government said there was "
"not; if Congress says an activity affects interstate commerce, then that "
"activity affects interstate commerce. The Supreme Court, the government "
"said, was not in the position to second-guess Congress."
msgstr ""

#.  f6. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10735
msgid ""
"<citetitle>United States</citetitle> v. <citetitle>Lopez</citetitle>, 514 "
"U.S. 549, 564 (1995)."
msgstr ""

#.  f7. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10742
msgid ""
"<citetitle>United States</citetitle> v. <citetitle>Morrison</citetitle>, 529 "
"U.S. 598 (2000)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10733
msgid ""
"<quote>We pause to consider the implications of the government's "
"arguments,</quote> the Chief Justice wrote.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"0\"/> If anything Congress says is interstate commerce must therefore "
"be considered interstate commerce, then there would be no limit to "
"Congress's power. The decision in <citetitle>Lopez</citetitle> was "
"reaffirmed five years later in <citetitle>United States</citetitle> "
"v. <citetitle>Morrison</citetitle>.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  f8. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10749
msgid ""
"If it is a principle about enumerated powers, then the principle carries "
"from one enumerated power to another. The animating point in the context of "
"the Commerce Clause was that the interpretation offered by the government "
"would allow the government unending power to regulate commerce&mdash;the "
"limitation to interstate commerce notwithstanding. The same point is true in "
"the context of the Copyright Clause. Here, too, the government's "
"interpretation would allow the government unending power to regulate "
"copyrights&mdash;the limitation to <quote>limited times</quote> "
"notwithstanding."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 227 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10746
msgid ""
"If a principle were at work here, then it should apply to the Progress "
"Clause as much as the Commerce Clause.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"0\"/> And if it is applied to the Progress Clause, the principle should "
"yield the conclusion that Congress can't extend an existing term. If "
"Congress could extend an existing term, then there would be no "
"<quote>stopping point</quote> to Congress's power over terms, though the "
"Constitution expressly states that there is such a limit. Thus, the same "
"principle applied to the power to grant copyrights should entail that "
"Congress is not allowed to extend the term of existing copyrights."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10770
msgid ""
"<emphasis>If</emphasis>, that is, the principle announced in "
"<citetitle>Lopez</citetitle> stood for a principle.  Many believed the "
"decision in <citetitle>Lopez</citetitle> stood for politics&mdash;a "
"conservative Supreme Court, which believed in states' rights, using its "
"power over Congress to advance its own personal political preferences. But I "
"rejected that view of the Supreme Court's decision. Indeed, shortly after "
"the decision, I wrote an article demonstrating the <quote>fidelity</quote> "
"in such an interpretation of the Constitution. The idea that the Supreme "
"Court decides cases based upon its politics struck me as extraordinarily "
"boring.  I was not going to devote my life to teaching constitutional law if "
"these nine Justices were going to be petty politicians."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10783
msgid ""
"Now let's pause for a moment to make sure we understand what the argument in "
"<citetitle>Eldred</citetitle> was not about. By insisting on the "
"Constitution's limits to copyright, obviously Eldred was not endorsing "
"piracy.  Indeed, in an obvious sense, he was fighting a kind of "
"piracy&mdash;piracy of the public domain. When Robert Frost wrote his work "
"and when Walt Disney created Mickey Mouse, the maximum copyright term was "
"just fifty-six years. Because of interim changes, Frost and Disney had "
"already enjoyed a seventy-five-year monopoly for their work. They had gotten "
"the benefit of the bargain that the Constitution envisions: In exchange for "
"a monopoly protected for fifty-six years, they created new work. But now "
"these entities were using their power&mdash;expressed through the power of "
"lobbyists' money&mdash;to get another twenty-year dollop of monopoly. That "
"twenty-year dollop would be taken from the public domain. Eric Eldred was "
"fighting a piracy that affects us all."
msgstr ""

#.  f9. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10806
msgid ""
"Brief of the Nashville Songwriters Association, "
"<citetitle>Eldred</citetitle> v. <citetitle>Ashcroft</citetitle>, 537 U.S.  "
"186 (2003) (No. 01-618), n.10, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #51</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:10814
msgid "Nashville Songwriters Association"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10800
msgid ""
"Some people view the public domain with contempt. In their brief before the "
"Supreme Court, the Nashville Songwriters Association wrote that the public "
"domain is nothing more than <quote>legal piracy.</quote><placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> But it is not piracy when the law allows it; "
"and in our constitutional system, our law requires it. Some may not like the "
"Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a "
"pirate's charter.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10817
msgid ""
"As we've seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a "
"way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily influence the "
"development and distribution of our culture. Yet, as Eric Eldred discovered, "
"we have set up a system that assures that copyright terms will be repeatedly "
"extended, and extended, and extended. We have created the perfect storm for "
"the public domain. Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long "
"as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10829
msgid ""
"It is valuable copyrights that are responsible for terms being extended.  "
"Mickey Mouse and <quote>Rhapsody in Blue.</quote> These works are too "
"valuable for copyright owners to ignore. But the real harm to our society "
"from copyright extensions is not that Mickey Mouse remains Disney's.  Forget "
"Mickey Mouse. Forget Robert Frost. Forget all the works from the 1920s and "
"1930s that have continuing commercial value. The real harm of term extension "
"comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are "
"not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result."
msgstr ""

#.  f10. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10850
msgid ""
"The figure of 2 percent is an extrapolation from the study by the "
"Congressional Research Service, in light of the estimated renewal "
"ranges. See Brief of Petitioners, <citetitle>Eldred</citetitle> "
"v. <citetitle>Ashcroft</citetitle>, 7, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #52</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10844
msgid ""
"If you look at the work created in the first twenty years (1923 to 1942) "
"affected by the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, 2 percent of that "
"work has any continuing commercial value. It was the copyright holders for "
"that 2 percent who pushed the CTEA through.  But the law and its effect were "
"not limited to that 2 percent. The law extended the terms of copyright "
"generally.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 229 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10859
msgid ""
"Think practically about the consequence of this extension&mdash;practically, "
"as a businessperson, and not as a lawyer eager for more legal work. In 1930, "
"10,047 books were published. In 2000, 174 of those books were still in "
"print. Let's say you were Brewster Kahle, and you wanted to make available "
"to the world in your iArchive project the remaining 9,873. What would you "
"have to do?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10872
msgid ""
"Well, first, you'd have to determine which of the 9,873 books were still "
"under copyright. That requires going to a library (these data are not "
"on-line) and paging through tomes of books, cross-checking the titles and "
"authors of the 9,873 books with the copyright registration and renewal "
"records for works published in 1930. That will produce a list of books still "
"under copyright."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10880
msgid ""
"Then for the books still under copyright, you would need to locate the "
"current copyright owners. How would you do that?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10884
msgid ""
"Most people think that there must be a list of these copyright owners "
"somewhere. Practical people think this way. How could there be thousands and "
"thousands of government monopolies without there being at least a list?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10891
msgid ""
"But there is no list. There may be a name from 1930, and then in 1959, of "
"the person who registered the copyright. But just think practically about "
"how impossibly difficult it would be to track down thousands of such "
"records&mdash;especially since the person who registered is not necessarily "
"the current owner. And we're just talking about 1930!"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10900
msgid ""
"<quote>But there isn't a list of who owns property generally,</quote> the "
"apologists for the system respond. <quote>Why should there be a list of "
"copyright owners?</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10905
msgid ""
"Well, actually, if you think about it, there <emphasis>are</emphasis> plenty "
"of lists of who owns what property. Think about deeds on houses, or titles "
"to cars.  And where there isn't a list, the code of real space is pretty "
"good at suggesting who the owner of a bit of property is. (A swing set in "
"your backyard is probably yours.) So formally or informally, we have a "
"pretty good way to know who owns what tangible property."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 230 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10914
msgid ""
"So: You walk down a street and see a house. You can know who owns the house "
"by looking it up in the courthouse registry. If you see a car, there is "
"ordinarily a license plate that will link the owner to the car. If you see a "
"bunch of children's toys sitting on the front lawn of a house, it's fairly "
"easy to determine who owns the toys. And if you happen to see a baseball "
"lying in a gutter on the side of the road, look around for a second for some "
"kids playing ball. If you don't see any kids, then okay: Here's a bit of "
"property whose owner we can't easily determine. It is the exception that "
"proves the rule: that we ordinarily know quite well who owns what property."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10929
msgid ""
"Compare this story to intangible property. You go into a library.  The "
"library owns the books. But who owns the copyrights? As I've already "
"described, there's no list of copyright owners. There are authors' names, of "
"course, but their copyrights could have been assigned, or passed down in an "
"estate like Grandma's old jewelry. To know who owns what, you would have to "
"hire a private detective. The bottom line: The owner cannot easily be "
"located. And in a regime like ours, in which it is a felony to use such "
"property without the property owner's permission, the property isn't going "
"to be used."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10941
msgid ""
"The consequence with respect to old books is that they won't be digitized, "
"and hence will simply rot away on shelves. But the consequence for other "
"creative works is much more dire."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:10947
msgid "Agee, Michael"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:10949 freeculture.xml:11386
msgid "Hal Roach Studios"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:10950
msgid "Laurel and Hardy Films"
msgstr ""

#.  f11. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10963
msgid ""
"See David G. Savage, <quote>High Court Scene of Showdown on Copyright "
"Law,</quote> <citetitle>Los Angeles Times</citetitle>, 6 October 2002; David "
"Streitfeld, <quote>Classic Movies, Songs, Books at Stake; Supreme Court "
"Hears Arguments Today on Striking Down Copyright Extension,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Orlando Sentinel Tribune</citetitle>, 9 October 2002."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:10969
msgid "Lucky Dog, The"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10952
msgid ""
"Consider the story of Michael Agee, chairman of Hal Roach Studios, which "
"owns the copyrights for the Laurel and Hardy films. Agee is a direct "
"beneficiary of the Bono Act. The Laurel and Hardy films were made between "
"1921 and 1951. Only one of these films, <citetitle>The Lucky "
"Dog</citetitle>, is currently out of copyright. But for the CTEA, films made "
"after 1923 would have begun entering the public domain. Because Agee "
"controls the exclusive rights for these popular films, he makes a great deal "
"of money. According to one estimate, <quote>Roach has sold about 60,000 "
"videocassettes and 50,000 DVDs of the duo's silent "
"films.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10972
msgid ""
"Yet Agee opposed the CTEA. His reasons demonstrate a rare virtue in this "
"culture: selflessness. He argued in a brief before the Supreme Court that "
"the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act will, if left standing, destroy "
"a whole generation of American film."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 231 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10978
msgid ""
"His argument is straightforward. A tiny fraction of this work has any "
"continuing commercial value. The rest&mdash;to the extent it survives at "
"all&mdash;sits in vaults gathering dust. It may be that some of this work "
"not now commercially valuable will be deemed to be valuable by the owners of "
"the vaults. For this to occur, however, the commercial benefit from the work "
"must exceed the costs of making the work available for distribution."
msgstr ""

#.  f12. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10996
msgid ""
"Brief of Hal Roach Studios and Michael Agee as Amicus Curiae Supporting the "
"Petitoners, <citetitle>Eldred</citetitle> "
"v. <citetitle>Ashcroft</citetitle>, 537 U.S. 186 (2003) (No. 01- 618), "
"12. See also Brief of Amicus Curiae filed on behalf of Petitioners by the "
"Internet Archive, <citetitle>Eldred</citetitle> "
"v. <citetitle>Ashcroft</citetitle>, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #53</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:10989
msgid ""
"We can't know the benefits, but we do know a lot about the costs.  For most "
"of the history of film, the costs of restoring film were very high; digital "
"technology has lowered these costs substantially. While it cost more than "
"$10,000 to restore a ninety-minute black-and-white film in 1993, it can now "
"cost as little as $100 to digitize one hour of mm film.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11006
msgid ""
"Restoration technology is not the only cost, nor the most important.  "
"Lawyers, too, are a cost, and increasingly, a very important one. In "
"addition to preserving the film, a distributor needs to secure the rights.  "
"And to secure the rights for a film that is under copyright, you need to "
"locate the copyright owner."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11014
msgid ""
"Or more accurately, <emphasis>owners</emphasis>. As we've seen, there isn't "
"only a single copyright associated with a film; there are many. There isn't "
"a single person whom you can contact about those copyrights; there are as "
"many as can hold the rights, which turns out to be an extremely large "
"number. Thus the costs of clearing the rights to these films is "
"exceptionally high."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11022
msgid ""
"<quote>But can't you just restore the film, distribute it, and then pay the "
"copyright owner when she shows up?</quote> Sure, if you want to commit a "
"felony. And even if you're not worried about committing a felony, when she "
"does show up, she'll have the right to sue you for all the profits you have "
"made. So, if you're successful, you can be fairly confident you'll be "
"getting a call from someone's lawyer. And if you're not successful, you "
"won't make enough to cover the costs of your own lawyer. Either way, you "
"have to talk to a lawyer. And as is too often the case, saying you have to "
"talk to a lawyer is the same as saying you won't make any money."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 232 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11033
msgid ""
"For some films, the benefit of releasing the film may well exceed these "
"costs. But for the vast majority of them, there is no way the benefit would "
"outweigh the legal costs. Thus, for the vast majority of old films, Agee "
"argued, the film will not be restored and distributed until the copyright "
"expires."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11044
msgid ""
"But by the time the copyright for these films expires, the film will have "
"expired. These films were produced on nitrate-based stock, and nitrate stock "
"dissolves over time. They will be gone, and the metal canisters in which "
"they are now stored will be filled with nothing more than dust."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11052
msgid ""
"Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has "
"continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a "
"crucially important legal device. For that tiny fraction, the copyright "
"creates incentives to produce and distribute the creative work. For that "
"tiny fraction, the copyright acts as an <quote>engine of free "
"expression.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11061
msgid ""
"But even for that tiny fraction, the actual time during which the creative "
"work has a commercial life is extremely short. As I've indicated, most books "
"go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and "
"film. Commercial culture is sharklike. It must keep moving.  And when a "
"creative work falls out of favor with the commercial distributors, the "
"commercial life ends."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11071
msgid ""
"Yet that doesn't mean the life of the creative work ends. We don't keep "
"libraries of books in order to compete with Barnes &amp; Noble, and we don't "
"have archives of films because we expect people to choose between spending "
"Friday night watching new movies and spending Friday night watching a 1930 "
"news documentary. The noncommercial life of culture is important and "
"valuable&mdash;for entertainment but also, and more importantly, for "
"knowledge. To understand who we are, and where we came from, and how we have "
"made the mistakes that we have, we need to have access to this history."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 233 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11084
msgid ""
"Copyrights in this context do not drive an engine of free expression.  In "
"this context, there is no need for an exclusive right. Copyrights in this "
"context do no good."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11091
msgid ""
"Yet, for most of our history, they also did little harm. For most of our "
"history, when a work ended its commercial life, there was no "
"<emphasis>copyright-related use</emphasis> that would be inhibited by an "
"exclusive right.  When a book went out of print, you could not buy it from a "
"publisher.  But you could still buy it from a used book store, and when a "
"used book store sells it, in America, at least, there is no need to pay the "
"copyright owner anything. Thus, the ordinary use of a book after its "
"commercial life ended was a use that was independent of copyright law."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11102
msgid ""
"The same was effectively true of film. Because the costs of restoring a "
"film&mdash;the real economic costs, not the lawyer costs&mdash;were so high, "
"it was never at all feasible to preserve or restore film. Like the remains "
"of a great dinner, when it's over, it's over. Once a film passed out of its "
"commercial life, it may have been archived for a bit, but that was the end "
"of its life so long as the market didn't have more to offer."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11111
msgid ""
"In other words, though copyright has been relatively short for most of our "
"history, long copyrights wouldn't have mattered for the works that lost "
"their commercial value. Long copyrights for these works would not have "
"interfered with anything."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11117
msgid "But this situation has now changed."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11123
msgid ""
"One crucially important consequence of the emergence of digital technologies "
"is to enable the archive that Brewster Kahle dreams of.  Digital "
"technologies now make it possible to preserve and give access to all sorts "
"of knowledge. Once a book goes out of print, we can now imagine digitizing "
"it and making it available to everyone, forever. Once a film goes out of "
"distribution, we could digitize it and make it available to everyone, "
"forever. Digital technologies give new life to copyrighted material after it "
"passes out of its commercial life. It is now possible to preserve and assure "
"universal access to this knowledge and culture, whereas before it was not."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 234 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11136
msgid ""
"And now copyright law does get in the way. Every step of producing this "
"digital archive of our culture infringes on the exclusive right of "
"copyright. To digitize a book is to copy it. To do that requires permission "
"of the copyright owner. The same with music, film, or any other aspect of "
"our culture protected by copyright. The effort to make these things "
"available to history, or to researchers, or to those who just want to "
"explore, is now inhibited by a set of rules that were written for a "
"radically different context."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11146
msgid ""
"Here is the core of the harm that comes from extending terms: Now that "
"technology enables us to rebuild the library of Alexandria, the law gets in "
"the way. And it doesn't get in the way for any useful "
"<emphasis>copyright</emphasis> purpose, for the purpose of copyright is to "
"enable the commercial market that spreads culture. No, we are talking about "
"culture after it has lived its commercial life. In this context, copyright "
"is serving no purpose <emphasis>at all</emphasis> related to the spread of "
"knowledge. In this context, copyright is not an engine of free "
"expression. Copyright is a brake."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11157
msgid ""
"You may well ask, <quote>But if digital technologies lower the costs for "
"Brewster Kahle, then they will lower the costs for Random House, too.  So "
"won't Random House do as well as Brewster Kahle in spreading culture "
"widely?</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11163
msgid ""
"Maybe. Someday. But there is absolutely no evidence to suggest that "
"publishers would be as complete as libraries. If Barnes &amp; Noble offered "
"to lend books from its stores for a low price, would that eliminate the need "
"for libraries? Only if you think that the only role of a library is to serve "
"what <quote>the market</quote> would demand. But if you think the role of a "
"library is bigger than this&mdash;if you think its role is to archive "
"culture, whether there's a demand for any particular bit of that culture or "
"not&mdash;then we can't count on the commercial market to do our library "
"work for us."
msgstr ""

#.  f13. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11187
msgid ""
"Jason Schultz, <quote>The Myth of the 1976 Copyright `Chaos' Theory,</quote> "
"20 December 2002, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #54</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11175
msgid ""
"I would be the first to agree that it should do as much as it can: We should "
"rely upon the market as much as possible to spread and enable culture. My "
"message is absolutely not antimarket. But where we see the market is not "
"doing the job, then we should allow nonmarket forces the freedom to fill the "
"gaps. As one researcher calculated for American culture, 94 percent of the "
"films, books, and music produced between and 1946 is not commercially "
"available. However much you love the commercial market, if access is a "
"value, then 6 percent is a failure to provide that value.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11194
msgid ""
"In January 1999, we filed a lawsuit on Eric Eldred's behalf in federal "
"district court in Washington, D.C., asking the court to declare the Sonny "
"Bono Copyright Term Extension Act unconstitutional. The two central claims "
"that we made were (1) that extending existing terms violated the "
"Constitution's <quote>limited Times</quote> requirement, and (2) that "
"extending terms by another twenty years violated the First Amendment."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11202
msgid ""
"The district court dismissed our claims without even hearing an argument.  A "
"panel of the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit also dismissed our "
"claims, though after hearing an extensive argument. But that decision at "
"least had a dissent, by one of the most conservative judges on that "
"court. That dissent gave our claims life."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11209
msgid ""
"Judge David Sentelle said the CTEA violated the requirement that copyrights "
"be for <quote>limited Times</quote> only. His argument was as elegant as it "
"was simple: If Congress can extend existing terms, then there is no "
"<quote>stopping point</quote> to Congress's power under the Copyright "
"Clause. The power to extend existing terms means Congress is not required to "
"grant terms that are <quote>limited.</quote> Thus, Judge Sentelle argued, "
"the court had to interpret the term <quote>limited Times</quote> to give it "
"meaning. And the best interpretation, Judge Sentelle argued, would be to "
"deny Congress the power to extend existing terms."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11220
msgid ""
"We asked the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit as a whole to hear the "
"case. Cases are ordinarily heard in panels of three, except for important "
"cases or cases that raise issues specific to the circuit as a whole, where "
"the court will sit <quote>en banc</quote> to hear the case."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:11225
msgid "Tatel, David"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 236 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11227
msgid ""
"The Court of Appeals rejected our request to hear the case en banc.  This "
"time, Judge Sentelle was joined by the most liberal member of the "
"D.C. Circuit, Judge David Tatel. Both the most conservative and the most "
"liberal judges in the D.C. Circuit believed Congress had overstepped its "
"bounds."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11236
msgid ""
"It was here that most expected Eldred v. Ashcroft would die, for the Supreme "
"Court rarely reviews any decision by a court of appeals. (It hears about one "
"hundred cases a year, out of more than five thousand appeals.) And it "
"practically never reviews a decision that upholds a statute when no other "
"court has yet reviewed the statute."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11243
msgid ""
"But in February 2002, the Supreme Court surprised the world by granting our "
"petition to review the D.C. Circuit opinion. Argument was set for October of "
"2002. The summer would be spent writing briefs and preparing for argument."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11249
msgid ""
"It is over a year later as I write these words. It is still astonishingly "
"hard. If you know anything at all about this story, you know that we lost "
"the appeal. And if you know something more than just the minimum, you "
"probably think there was no way this case could have been won. After our "
"defeat, I received literally thousands of missives by well-wishers and "
"supporters, thanking me for my work on behalf of this noble but doomed "
"cause. And none from this pile was more significant to me than the e-mail "
"from my client, Eric Eldred."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11259
msgid ""
"But my client and these friends were wrong. This case could have been "
"won. It should have been won. And no matter how hard I try to retell this "
"story to myself, I can never escape believing that my own mistake lost it."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:11264 freeculture.xml:11278
msgid "Steward, Geoffrey"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 237 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11266
msgid ""
"The mistake was made early, though it became obvious only at the very "
"end. Our case had been supported from the very beginning by an extraordinary "
"lawyer, Geoffrey Stewart, and by the law firm he had moved to, Jones, Day, "
"Reavis and Pogue. Jones Day took a great deal of heat from its "
"copyright-protectionist clients for supporting us. They ignored this "
"pressure (something that few law firms today would ever do), and throughout "
"the case, they gave it everything they could."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:11276 freeculture.xml:11627 freeculture.xml:11643 freeculture.xml:11737 freeculture.xml:11953 freeculture.xml:11984 freeculture.xml:12077
msgid "Ayer, Don"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:11277
msgid "Bromberg, Dan"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11280
msgid ""
"There were three key lawyers on the case from Jones Day. Geoff Stewart was "
"the first, but then Dan Bromberg and Don Ayer became quite "
"involved. Bromberg and Ayer in particular had a common view about how this "
"case would be won: We would only win, they repeatedly told me, if we could "
"make the issue seem <quote>important</quote> to the Supreme Court. It had to "
"seem as if dramatic harm were being done to free speech and free culture; "
"otherwise, they would never vote against <quote>the most powerful media "
"companies in the world.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11290
msgid ""
"I hate this view of the law. Of course I thought the Sonny Bono Act was a "
"dramatic harm to free speech and free culture. Of course I still think it "
"is. But the idea that the Supreme Court decides the law based on how "
"important they believe the issues are is just wrong. It might be "
"<quote>right</quote> as in <quote>true,</quote> I thought, but it is "
"<quote>wrong</quote> as in <quote>it just shouldn't be that way.</quote> As "
"I believed that any faithful interpretation of what the framers of our "
"Constitution did would yield the conclusion that the CTEA was "
"unconstitutional, and as I believed that any faithful interpretation of what "
"the First Amendment means would yield the conclusion that the power to "
"extend existing copyright terms is unconstitutional, I was not persuaded "
"that we had to sell our case like soap.  Just as a law that bans the "
"swastika is unconstitutional not because the Court likes Nazis but because "
"such a law would violate the Constitution, so too, in my view, would the "
"Court decide whether Congress's law was constitutional based on the "
"Constitution, not based on whether they liked the values that the framers "
"put in the Constitution."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11311
msgid ""
"In any case, I thought, the Court must already see the danger and the harm "
"caused by this sort of law. Why else would they grant review? There was no "
"reason to hear the case in the Supreme Court if they weren't convinced that "
"this regulation was harmful. So in my view, we didn't need to persuade them "
"that this law was bad, we needed to show why it was unconstitutional."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 238 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11319
msgid ""
"There was one way, however, in which I felt politics would matter and in "
"which I thought a response was appropriate. I was convinced that the Court "
"would not hear our arguments if it thought these were just the arguments of "
"a group of lefty loons. This Supreme Court was not about to launch into a "
"new field of judicial review if it seemed that this field of review was "
"simply the preference of a small political minority.  Although my focus in "
"the case was not to demonstrate how bad the Sonny Bono Act was but to "
"demonstrate that it was unconstitutional, my hope was to make this argument "
"against a background of briefs that covered the full range of political "
"views. To show that this claim against the CTEA was grounded in "
"<emphasis>law</emphasis> and not politics, then, we tried to gather the "
"widest range of credible critics&mdash;credible not because they were rich "
"and famous, but because they, in the aggregate, demonstrated that this law "
"was unconstitutional regardless of one's politics."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:11350 freeculture.xml:11376
msgid "Eagle Forum"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:11351
msgid "Schlafly, Phyllis"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11338
msgid ""
"The first step happened all by itself. Phyllis Schlafly's organization, "
"Eagle Forum, had been an opponent of the CTEA from the very beginning.  "
"Mrs. Schlafly viewed the CTEA as a sellout by Congress. In November 1998, "
"she wrote a stinging editorial attacking the Republican Congress for "
"allowing the law to pass. As she wrote, <quote>Do you sometimes wonder why "
"bills that create a financial windfall to narrow special interests slide "
"easily through the intricate legislative process, while bills that benefit "
"the general public seem to get bogged down?</quote> The answer, as the "
"editorial documented, was the power of money.  Schlafly enumerated Disney's "
"contributions to the key players on the committees. It was money, not "
"justice, that gave Mickey Mouse twenty more years in Disney's control, "
"Schlafly argued.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11354
msgid ""
"In the Court of Appeals, Eagle Forum was eager to file a brief supporting "
"our position. Their brief made the argument that became the core claim in "
"the Supreme Court: If Congress can extend the term of existing copyrights, "
"there is no limit to Congress's power to set terms.  That strong "
"conservative argument persuaded a strong conservative judge, Judge Sentelle."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11362
msgid ""
"In the Supreme Court, the briefs on our side were about as diverse as it "
"gets. They included an extraordinary historical brief by the Free Software "
"Foundation (home of the GNU project that made GNU/ Linux possible). They "
"included a powerful brief about the costs of uncertainty by Intel. There "
"were two law professors' briefs, one by copyright scholars and one by First "
"Amendment scholars. There was an exhaustive and uncontroverted brief by the "
"world's experts in the history of the Progress Clause. And of course, there "
"was a new brief by Eagle Forum, repeating and strengthening its arguments.  "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"1\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"2\"/> <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"3\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:11383
msgid "American Association of Law Libraries"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:11384
msgid "National Writers Union"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11379
msgid ""
"Those briefs framed a legal argument. Then to support the legal argument, "
"there were a number of powerful briefs by libraries and archives, including "
"the Internet Archive, the American Association of Law Libraries, and the "
"National Writers Union.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11388
msgid ""
"But two briefs captured the policy argument best. One made the argument I've "
"already described: A brief by Hal Roach Studios argued that unless the law "
"was struck, a whole generation of American film would disappear. The other "
"made the economic argument absolutely clear."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:11394
msgid "Akerlof, George"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:11395
msgid "Arrow, Kenneth"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:11396
msgid "Buchanan, James"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:11397
msgid "Coase, Ronald"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:11398
msgid "Friedman, Milton"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11400
msgid ""
"This economists' brief was signed by seventeen economists, including five "
"Nobel Prize winners, including Ronald Coase, James Buchanan, Milton "
"Friedman, Kenneth Arrow, and George Akerlof. The economists, as the list of "
"Nobel winners demonstrates, spanned the political spectrum. Their "
"conclusions were powerful: There was no plausible claim that extending the "
"terms of existing copyrights would do anything to increase incentives to "
"create. Such extensions were nothing more than "
"<quote>rent-seeking</quote>&mdash;the fancy term economists use to describe "
"special-interest legislation gone wild."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:11423 freeculture.xml:11439 freeculture.xml:11634 freeculture.xml:11989
msgid "Fried, Charles"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:11424
msgid "Morrison, Alan"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:11425
msgid "Public Citizen"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:11426 freeculture.xml:11628 freeculture.xml:12735
msgid "Reagan, Ronald"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11411
msgid ""
"The same effort at balance was reflected in the legal team we gathered to "
"write our briefs in the case. The Jones Day lawyers had been with us from "
"the start. But when the case got to the Supreme Court, we added three "
"lawyers to help us frame this argument to this Court: Alan Morrison, a "
"lawyer from Public Citizen, a Washington group that had made constitutional "
"history with a series of seminal victories in the Supreme Court defending "
"individual rights; my colleague and dean, Kathleen Sullivan, who had argued "
"many cases in the Court, and who had advised us early on about a First "
"Amendment strategy; and finally, former solicitor general Charles Fried.  "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"1\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"2\"/> <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"3\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11429
msgid ""
"Fried was a special victory for our side. Every other former solicitor "
"general was hired by the other side to defend Congress's power to give media "
"companies the special favor of extended copyright terms. Fried was the only "
"one who turned down that lucrative assignment to stand up for something he "
"believed in. He had been Ronald Reagan's chief lawyer in the Supreme "
"Court. He had helped craft the line of cases that limited Congress's power "
"in the context of the Commerce Clause. And while he had argued many "
"positions in the Supreme Court that I personally disagreed with, his joining "
"the cause was a vote of confidence in our argument.  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11442
msgid ""
"The government, in defending the statute, had its collection of friends, as "
"well. Significantly, however, none of these <quote>friends</quote> included "
"historians or economists. The briefs on the other side of the case were "
"written exclusively by major media companies, congressmen, and copyright "
"holders."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11449
msgid ""
"The media companies were not surprising. They had the most to gain from the "
"law. The congressmen were not surprising either&mdash;they were defending "
"their power and, indirectly, the gravy train of contributions such power "
"induced. And of course it was not surprising that the copyright holders "
"would defend the idea that they should continue to have the right to control "
"who did what with content they wanted to control."
msgstr ""

#.  f14. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11465
msgid ""
"Brief of Amici Dr. Seuss Enterprise et al., <citetitle>Eldred</citetitle> "
"v. <citetitle>Ashcroft</citetitle>, 537 U.S.  (2003) (No. 01-618), 19."
msgstr ""

#.  f15. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11473
msgid ""
"Dinitia Smith, <quote>Immortal Words, Immortal Royalties? Even Mickey Mouse "
"Joins the Fray,</quote> <citetitle>New York Times</citetitle>, 28 March "
"1998, B7."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:11480
msgid "Gershwin, George"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11458
msgid ""
"Dr. Seuss's representatives, for example, argued that it was better for the "
"Dr. Seuss estate to control what happened to Dr. Seuss's work&mdash; better "
"than allowing it to fall into the public domain&mdash;because if this "
"creativity were in the public domain, then people could use it to "
"<quote>glorify drugs or to create pornography.</quote><placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> That was also the motive of the Gershwin "
"estate, which defended its <quote>protection</quote> of the work of George "
"Gershwin. They refuse, for example, to license <citetitle>Porgy and "
"Bess</citetitle> to anyone who refuses to use African Americans in the "
"cast.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> That's their view of how this "
"part of American culture should be controlled, and they wanted this law to "
"help them effect that control.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"2\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11483
msgid ""
"This argument made clear a theme that is rarely noticed in this debate.  "
"When Congress decides to extend the term of existing copyrights, Congress is "
"making a choice about which speakers it will favor.  Famous and beloved "
"copyright owners, such as the Gershwin estate and Dr. Seuss, come to "
"Congress and say, <quote>Give us twenty years to control the speech about "
"these icons of American culture. We'll do better with them than anyone "
"else.</quote> Congress of course likes to reward the popular and famous by "
"giving them what they want. But when Congress gives people an exclusive "
"right to speak in a certain way, that's just what the First Amendment is "
"traditionally meant to block."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11495
msgid ""
"We argued as much in a final brief. Not only would upholding the CTEA mean "
"that there was no limit to the power of Congress to extend "
"copyrights&mdash;extensions that would further concentrate the market; it "
"would also mean that there was no limit to Congress's power to play "
"favorites, through copyright, with who has the right to speak.  Between "
"February and October, there was little I did beyond preparing for this "
"case. Early on, as I said, I set the strategy."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:11504 freeculture.xml:11682
msgid "O'Connor, Sandra Day"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11506
msgid ""
"The Supreme Court was divided into two important camps. One camp we called "
"<quote>the Conservatives.</quote> The other we called <quote>the "
"Rest.</quote> The Conservatives included Chief Justice Rehnquist, Justice "
"O'Connor, Justice Scalia, Justice Kennedy, and Justice Thomas. These five "
"had been the most consistent in limiting Congress's power. They were the "
"five who had supported the <citetitle>Lopez/Morrison</citetitle> line of "
"cases that said that an enumerated power had to be interpreted to assure "
"that Congress's powers had limits."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:11515 freeculture.xml:11539 freeculture.xml:11881 freeculture.xml:11893
msgid "Breyer, Stephen"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 242 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11517
msgid ""
"The Rest were the four Justices who had strongly opposed limits on "
"Congress's power. These four&mdash;Justice Stevens, Justice Souter, Justice "
"Ginsburg, and Justice Breyer&mdash;had repeatedly argued that the "
"Constitution gives Congress broad discretion to decide how best to implement "
"its powers. In case after case, these justices had argued that the Court's "
"role should be one of deference. Though the votes of these four justices "
"were the votes that I personally had most consistently agreed with, they "
"were also the votes that we were least likely to get."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11529
msgid ""
"In particular, the least likely was Justice Ginsburg's. In addition to her "
"general view about deference to Congress (except where issues of gender are "
"involved), she had been particularly deferential in the context of "
"intellectual property protections. She and her daughter (an excellent and "
"well-known intellectual property scholar) were cut from the same "
"intellectual property cloth. We expected she would agree with the writings "
"of her daughter: that Congress had the power in this context to do as it "
"wished, even if what Congress wished made little sense."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11541
msgid ""
"Close behind Justice Ginsburg were two justices whom we also viewed as "
"unlikely allies, though possible surprises. Justice Souter strongly favored "
"deference to Congress, as did Justice Breyer. But both were also very "
"sensitive to free speech concerns. And as we strongly believed, there was a "
"very important free speech argument against these retrospective extensions."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11549
msgid ""
"The only vote we could be confident about was that of Justice "
"Stevens. History will record Justice Stevens as one of the greatest judges "
"on this Court. His votes are consistently eclectic, which just means that no "
"simple ideology explains where he will stand. But he had consistently argued "
"for limits in the context of intellectual property generally. We were fairly "
"confident he would recognize limits here."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11557
msgid ""
"This analysis of <quote>the Rest</quote> showed most clearly where our focus "
"had to be: on the Conservatives. To win this case, we had to crack open "
"these five and get at least a majority to go our way. Thus, the single "
"overriding argument that animated our claim rested on the Conservatives' "
"most important jurisprudential innovation&mdash;the argument that Judge "
"Sentelle had relied upon in the Court of Appeals, that Congress's power must "
"be interpreted so that its enumerated powers have limits."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 243 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11567
msgid ""
"This then was the core of our strategy&mdash;a strategy for which I am "
"responsible. We would get the Court to see that just as with the "
"<citetitle>Lopez</citetitle> case, under the government's argument here, "
"Congress would always have unlimited power to extend existing terms. If "
"anything was plain about Congress's power under the Progress Clause, it was "
"that this power was supposed to be <quote>limited.</quote> Our aim would be "
"to get the Court to reconcile <citetitle>Eldred</citetitle> with "
"<citetitle>Lopez</citetitle>: If Congress's power to regulate commerce was "
"limited, then so, too, must Congress's power to regulate copyright be "
"limited."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11581
msgid ""
"The argument on the government's side came down to this: Congress has done "
"it before. It should be allowed to do it again. The government claimed that "
"from the very beginning, Congress has been extending the term of existing "
"copyrights. So, the government argued, the Court should not now say that "
"practice is unconstitutional."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11588
msgid ""
"There was some truth to the government's claim, but not much. We certainly "
"agreed that Congress had extended existing terms in 1831 and in 1909. And of "
"course, in 1962, Congress began extending existing terms "
"regularly&mdash;eleven times in forty years."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 244 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11595
msgid ""
"But this <quote>consistency</quote> should be kept in perspective. Congress "
"extended existing terms once in the first hundred years of the Republic.  It "
"then extended existing terms once again in the next fifty. Those rare "
"extensions are in contrast to the now regular practice of extending existing "
"terms. Whatever restraint Congress had had in the past, that restraint was "
"now gone. Congress was now in a cycle of extensions; there was no reason to "
"expect that cycle would end. This Court had not hesitated to intervene where "
"Congress was in a similar cycle of extension.  There was no reason it "
"couldn't intervene here.  Oral argument was scheduled for the first week in "
"October. I arrived in D.C. two weeks before the argument. During those two "
"weeks, I was repeatedly <quote>mooted</quote> by lawyers who had volunteered "
"to help in the case. Such <quote>moots</quote> are basically practice "
"rounds, where wannabe justices fire questions at wannabe winners."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11618
msgid ""
"I was convinced that to win, I had to keep the Court focused on a single "
"point: that if this extension is permitted, then there is no limit to the "
"power to set terms. Going with the government would mean that terms would be "
"effectively unlimited; going with us would give Congress a clear line to "
"follow: Don't extend existing terms. The moots were an effective practice; I "
"found ways to take every question back to this central idea."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11630
msgid ""
"One moot was before the lawyers at Jones Day. Don Ayer was the skeptic. He "
"had served in the Reagan Justice Department with Solicitor General Charles "
"Fried. He had argued many cases before the Supreme Court. And in his review "
"of the moot, he let his concern speak: <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11637
msgid ""
"<quote>I'm just afraid that unless they really see the harm, they won't be "
"willing to upset this practice that the government says has been a "
"consistent practice for two hundred years. You have to make them see the "
"harm&mdash;passionately get them to see the harm. For if they don't see "
"that, then we haven't any chance of winning.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 245 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11645
msgid ""
"He may have argued many cases before this Court, I thought, but he didn't "
"understand its soul. As a clerk, I had seen the Justices do the right "
"thing&mdash;not because of politics but because it was right. As a law "
"professor, I had spent my life teaching my students that this Court does the "
"right thing&mdash;not because of politics but because it is right. As I "
"listened to Ayer's plea for passion in pressing politics, I understood his "
"point, and I rejected it. Our argument was right. That was enough.  Let the "
"politicians learn to see that it was also good.  The night before the "
"argument, a line of people began to form in front of the Supreme Court. The "
"case had become a focus of the press and of the movement to free "
"culture. Hundreds stood in line for the chance to see the "
"proceedings. Scores spent the night on the Supreme Court steps so that they "
"would be assured a seat."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11662
msgid ""
"Not everyone has to wait in line. People who know the Justices can ask for "
"seats they control. (I asked Justice Scalia's chambers for seats for my "
"parents, for example.) Members of the Supreme Court bar can get a seat in a "
"special section reserved for them. And senators and congressmen have a "
"special place where they get to sit, too. And finally, of course, the press "
"has a gallery, as do clerks working for the Justices on the Court. As we "
"entered that morning, there was no place that was not taken. This was an "
"argument about intellectual property law, yet the halls were filled. As I "
"walked in to take my seat at the front of the Court, I saw my parents "
"sitting on the left. As I sat down at the table, I saw Jack Valenti sitting "
"in the special section ordinarily reserved for family of the Justices."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11677
msgid ""
"When the Chief Justice called me to begin my argument, I began where I "
"intended to stay: on the question of the limits on Congress's power. This "
"was a case about enumerated powers, I said, and whether those enumerated "
"powers had any limit."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11684
msgid ""
"Justice O'Connor stopped me within one minute of my opening.  The history "
"was bothering her."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11689
msgid ""
"justice o'connor: Congress has extended the term so often through the years, "
"and if you are right, don't we run the risk of upsetting previous extensions "
"of time? I mean, this seems to be a practice that began with the very first "
"act."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11696
msgid ""
"She was quite willing to concede <quote>that this flies directly in the face "
"of what the framers had in mind.</quote> But my response again and again was "
"to emphasize limits on Congress's power."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 246 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11702
msgid ""
"mr. lessig: Well, if it flies in the face of what the framers had in mind, "
"then the question is, is there a way of interpreting their words that gives "
"effect to what they had in mind, and the answer is yes."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11710
msgid ""
"There were two points in this argument when I should have seen where the "
"Court was going. The first was a question by Justice Kennedy, who observed,"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11716
msgid ""
"justice kennedy: Well, I suppose implicit in the argument that the '76 act, "
"too, should have been declared void, and that we might leave it alone "
"because of the disruption, is that for all these years the act has impeded "
"progress in science and the useful arts.  I just don't see any empirical "
"evidence for that."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11724
msgid ""
"Here follows my clear mistake. Like a professor correcting a student, I "
"answered,"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11730
msgid ""
"mr. lessig: Justice, we are not making an empirical claim at all.  Nothing "
"in our Copyright Clause claim hangs upon the empirical assertion about "
"impeding progress. Our only argument is this is a structural limit necessary "
"to assure that what would be an effectively perpetual term not be permitted "
"under the copyright laws."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11739
msgid ""
"That was a correct answer, but it wasn't the right answer. The right answer "
"was instead that there was an obvious and profound harm. Any number of "
"briefs had been written about it. He wanted to hear it. And here was the "
"place Don Ayer's advice should have mattered. This was a softball; my answer "
"was a swing and a miss."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11746
msgid ""
"The second came from the Chief, for whom the whole case had been "
"crafted. For the Chief Justice had crafted the <citetitle>Lopez</citetitle> "
"ruling, and we hoped that he would see this case as its second cousin."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 247 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11751
msgid ""
"It was clear a second into his question that he wasn't at all sympathetic.  "
"To him, we were a bunch of anarchists. As he asked:"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11758
msgid ""
"chief justice: Well, but you want more than that. You want the right to copy "
"verbatim other people's books, don't you?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11762
msgid ""
"mr. lessig: We want the right to copy verbatim works that should be in the "
"public domain and would be in the public domain but for a statute that "
"cannot be justified under ordinary First Amendment analysis or under a "
"proper reading of the limits built into the Copyright Clause."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:11770
msgid "Olson, Theodore B."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11772
msgid ""
"Things went better for us when the government gave its argument; for now the "
"Court picked up on the core of our claim. As Justice Scalia asked Solicitor "
"General Olson,"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11778
msgid ""
"justice scalia: You say that the functional equivalent of an unlimited time "
"would be a violation [of the Constitution], but that's precisely the "
"argument that's being made by petitioners here, that a limited time which is "
"extendable is the functional equivalent of an unlimited time."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11786
msgid ""
"When Olson was finished, it was my turn to give a closing rebuttal.  Olson's "
"flailing had revived my anger. But my anger still was directed to the "
"academic, not the practical. The government was arguing as if this were the "
"first case ever to consider limits on Congress's Copyright and Patent Clause "
"power. Ever the professor and not the advocate, I closed by pointing out the "
"long history of the Court imposing limits on Congress's power in the name of "
"the Copyright and Patent Clause&mdash; indeed, the very first case striking "
"a law of Congress as exceeding a specific enumerated power was based upon "
"the Copyright and Patent Clause. All true. But it wasn't going to move the "
"Court to my side."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 248 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11799
msgid ""
"As I left the court that day, I knew there were a hundred points I wished I "
"could remake. There were a hundred questions I wished I had answered "
"differently. But one way of thinking about this case left me optimistic."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11807
msgid ""
"The government had been asked over and over again, what is the limit? Over "
"and over again, it had answered there is no limit. This was precisely the "
"answer I wanted the Court to hear. For I could not imagine how the Court "
"could understand that the government believed Congress's power was unlimited "
"under the terms of the Copyright Clause, and sustain the government's "
"argument. The solicitor general had made my argument for me. No matter how "
"often I tried, I could not understand how the Court could find that "
"Congress's power under the Commerce Clause was limited, but under the "
"Copyright Clause, unlimited. In those rare moments when I let myself believe "
"that we may have prevailed, it was because I felt this Court&mdash;in "
"particular, the Conservatives&mdash;would feel itself constrained by the "
"rule of law that it had established elsewhere."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11822
msgid ""
"The morning of January 15, 2003, I was five minutes late to the office and "
"missed the 7:00 A.M. call from the Supreme Court clerk. Listening to the "
"message, I could tell in an instant that she had bad news to report.The "
"Supreme Court had affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeals. Seven "
"justices had voted in the majority. There were two dissents."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11829
msgid ""
"A few seconds later, the opinions arrived by e-mail. I took the phone off "
"the hook, posted an announcement to our blog, and sat down to see where I "
"had been wrong in my reasoning."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11834
msgid ""
"My <emphasis>reasoning</emphasis>. Here was a case that pitted all the money "
"in the world against <emphasis>reasoning</emphasis>. And here was the last "
"naïve law professor, scouring the pages, looking for reasoning."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11840
msgid ""
"I first scoured the opinion, looking for how the Court would distinguish the "
"principle in this case from the principle in "
"<citetitle>Lopez</citetitle>. The argument was nowhere to be found. The case "
"was not even cited. The argument that was the core argument of our case did "
"not even appear in the Court's opinion."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 249 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11849
msgid ""
"Justice Ginsburg simply ignored the enumerated powers argument.  Consistent "
"with her view that Congress's power was not limited generally, she had found "
"Congress's power not limited here."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11854
msgid ""
"Her opinion was perfectly reasonable&mdash;for her, and for Justice "
"Souter. Neither believes in <citetitle>Lopez</citetitle>. It would be too "
"much to expect them to write an opinion that recognized, much less "
"explained, the doctrine they had worked so hard to defeat."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11860
msgid ""
"But as I realized what had happened, I couldn't quite believe what I was "
"reading. I had said there was no way this Court could reconcile limited "
"powers with the Commerce Clause and unlimited powers with the Progress "
"Clause. It had never even occurred to me that they could reconcile the two "
"simply <emphasis>by not addressing the argument</emphasis>. There was no "
"inconsistency because they would not talk about the two together.  There was "
"therefore no principle that followed from the <citetitle>Lopez</citetitle> "
"case: In that context, Congress's power would be limited, but in this "
"context it would not."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11871
msgid ""
"Yet by what right did they get to choose which of the framers' values they "
"would respect? By what right did they&mdash;the silent five&mdash;get to "
"select the part of the Constitution they would enforce based on the values "
"they thought important? We were right back to the argument that I said I "
"hated at the start: I had failed to convince them that the issue here was "
"important, and I had failed to recognize that however much I might hate a "
"system in which the Court gets to pick the constitutional values that it "
"will respect, that is the system we have."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11883
msgid ""
"Justices Breyer and Stevens wrote very strong dissents. Stevens's opinion "
"was crafted internal to the law: He argued that the tradition of "
"intellectual property law should not support this unjustified extension of "
"terms. He based his argument on a parallel analysis that had governed in the "
"context of patents (so had we). But the rest of the Court discounted the "
"parallel&mdash;without explaining how the very same words in the Progress "
"Clause could come to mean totally different things depending upon whether "
"the words were about patents or copyrights.  The Court let Justice Stevens's "
"charge go unanswered."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 250 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11896
msgid ""
"Justice Breyer's opinion, perhaps the best opinion he has ever written, was "
"external to the Constitution. He argued that the term of copyrights has "
"become so long as to be effectively unlimited. We had said that under the "
"current term, a copyright gave an author 99.8 percent of the value of a "
"perpetual term. Breyer said we were wrong, that the actual number was "
"99.9997 percent of a perpetual term. Either way, the point was clear: If the "
"Constitution said a term had to be <quote>limited,</quote> and the existing "
"term was so long as to be effectively unlimited, then it was "
"unconstitutional."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11907
msgid ""
"These two justices understood all the arguments we had made. But because "
"neither believed in the <citetitle>Lopez</citetitle> case, neither was "
"willing to push it as a reason to reject this extension. The case was "
"decided without anyone having addressed the argument that we had carried "
"from Judge Sentelle. It was <citetitle>Hamlet</citetitle> without the "
"Prince."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11914
msgid ""
"Defeat brings depression. They say it is a sign of health when depression "
"gives way to anger. My anger came quickly, but it didn't cure the "
"depression. This anger was of two sorts."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:11918
msgid "originalism"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11920
msgid ""
"It was first anger with the five <quote>Conservatives.</quote> It would have "
"been one thing for them to have explained why the principle of "
"<citetitle>Lopez</citetitle> didn't apply in this case. That wouldn't have "
"been a very convincing argument, I don't believe, having read it made by "
"others, and having tried to make it myself. But it at least would have been "
"an act of integrity.  These justices in particular have repeatedly said that "
"the proper mode of interpreting the Constitution is "
"<quote>originalism</quote>&mdash;to first understand the framers' text, "
"interpreted in their context, in light of the structure of the "
"Constitution. That method had produced <citetitle>Lopez</citetitle> and many "
"other <quote>originalist</quote> rulings. Where was their "
"<quote>originalism</quote> now?"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 251 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11933
msgid ""
"Here, they had joined an opinion that never once tried to explain what the "
"framers had meant by crafting the Progress Clause as they did; they joined "
"an opinion that never once tried to explain how the structure of that clause "
"would affect the interpretation of Congress's power. And they joined an "
"opinion that didn't even try to explain why this grant of power could be "
"unlimited, whereas the Commerce Clause would be limited. In short, they had "
"joined an opinion that did not apply to, and was inconsistent with, their "
"own method for interpreting the Constitution. This opinion may well have "
"yielded a result that they liked. It did not produce a reason that was "
"consistent with their own principles."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11948
msgid ""
"My anger with the Conservatives quickly yielded to anger with myself.  For I "
"had let a view of the law that I liked interfere with a view of the law as "
"it is."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11955
msgid ""
"Most lawyers, and most law professors, have little patience for idealism "
"about courts in general and this Supreme Court in particular.  Most have a "
"much more pragmatic view. When Don Ayer said that this case would be won "
"based on whether I could convince the Justices that the framers' values were "
"important, I fought the idea, because I didn't want to believe that that is "
"how this Court decides. I insisted on arguing this case as if it were a "
"simple application of a set of principles.  I had an argument that followed "
"in logic. I didn't need to waste my time showing it should also follow in "
"popularity."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 252 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11966
msgid ""
"As I read back over the transcript from that argument in October, I can see "
"a hundred places where the answers could have taken the conversation in "
"different directions, where the truth about the harm that this unchecked "
"power will cause could have been made clear to this Court. Justice Kennedy "
"in good faith wanted to be shown. I, idiotically, corrected his "
"question. Justice Souter in good faith wanted to be shown the First "
"Amendment harms. I, like a math teacher, reframed the question to make the "
"logical point. I had shown them how they could strike this law of Congress "
"if they wanted to. There were a hundred places where I could have helped "
"them want to, yet my stubbornness, my refusal to give in, stopped me. I have "
"stood before hundreds of audiences trying to persuade; I have used passion "
"in that effort to persuade; but I refused to stand before this audience and "
"try to persuade with the passion I had used elsewhere. It was not the basis "
"on which a court should decide the issue."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11986
msgid ""
"Would it have been different if I had argued it differently? Would it have "
"been different if Don Ayer had argued it? Or Charles Fried? Or Kathleen "
"Sullivan? <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11992
msgid ""
"My friends huddled around me to insist it would not. The Court was not "
"ready, my friends insisted. This was a loss that was destined. It would take "
"a great deal more to show our society why our framers were right. And when "
"we do that, we will be able to show that Court."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:11998
msgid ""
"Maybe, but I doubt it. These Justices have no financial interest in doing "
"anything except the right thing. They are not lobbied. They have little "
"reason to resist doing right. I can't help but think that if I had stepped "
"down from this pretty picture of dispassionate justice, I could have "
"persuaded."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12005
msgid ""
"And even if I couldn't, then that doesn't excuse what happened in "
"January. For at the start of this case, one of America's leading "
"intellectual property professors stated publicly that my bringing this case "
"was a mistake. <quote>The Court is not ready,</quote> Peter Jaszi said; this "
"issue should not be raised until it is.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 253 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12013
msgid ""
"After the argument and after the decision, Peter said to me, and publicly, "
"that he was wrong. But if indeed that Court could not have been persuaded, "
"then that is all the evidence that's needed to know that here again Peter "
"was right. Either I was not ready to argue this case in a way that would do "
"some good or they were not ready to hear this case in a way that would do "
"some good. Either way, the decision to bring this case&mdash;a decision I "
"had made four years before&mdash;was wrong.  While the reaction to the Sonny "
"Bono Act itself was almost unanimously negative, the reaction to the Court's "
"decision was mixed.  No one, at least in the press, tried to say that "
"extending the term of copyright was a good idea. We had won that battle over "
"ideas. Where the decision was praised, it was praised by papers that had "
"been skeptical of the Court's activism in other cases. Deference was a good "
"thing, even if it left standing a silly law. But where the decision was "
"attacked, it was attacked because it left standing a silly and harmful "
"law. <citetitle>The New York Times</citetitle> wrote in its editorial,"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12034
msgid ""
"In effect, the Supreme Court's decision makes it likely that we are seeing "
"the beginning of the end of public domain and the birth of copyright "
"perpetuity. The public domain has been a grand experiment, one that should "
"not be allowed to die. The ability to draw freely on the entire creative "
"output of humanity is one of the reasons we live in a time of such fruitful "
"creative ferment."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><figure><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:12048 freeculture.xml:12053
msgid "Bolling, Ruben"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12043
msgid ""
"The best responses were in the cartoons. There was a gaggle of hilarious "
"images&mdash;of Mickey in jail and the like. The best, from my view of the "
"case, was Ruben Bolling's, reproduced on the next page (<xref "
"linkend=\"fig-18\"/>). The <quote>powerful and wealthy</quote> line is a bit "
"unfair. But the punch in the face felt exactly like that.  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><figure><title>
#: freeculture.xml:12051
msgid "Tom the Dancing Bug cartoon"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><figure>
#: freeculture.xml:12052
msgid ""
"<graphic fileref=\"images/18.png\"></graphic> <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12056
msgid ""
"The image that will always stick in my head is that evoked by the quote from "
"<citetitle>The New York Times</citetitle>. That <quote>grand "
"experiment</quote> we call the <quote>public domain</quote> is over? When I "
"can make light of it, I think, <quote>Honey, I shrunk the "
"Constitution.</quote> But I can rarely make light of it. We had in our "
"Constitution a commitment to free culture. In the case that I fathered, the "
"Supreme Court effectively renounced that commitment. A better lawyer would "
"have made them see differently."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
#: freeculture.xml:12067
msgid "CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Eldred II"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12069
msgid ""
"The day <citetitle>Eldred</citetitle> was decided, fate would have it that I "
"was to travel to Washington, D.C. (The day the rehearing petition in "
"<citetitle>Eldred</citetitle> was denied&mdash;meaning the case was really "
"finally over&mdash;fate would have it that I was giving a speech to "
"technologists at Disney World.)  This was a particularly long flight to my "
"least favorite city. The drive into the city from Dulles was delayed because "
"of traffic, so I opened up my computer and wrote an op-ed piece."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12079
msgid ""
"It was an act of contrition. During the whole of the flight from San "
"Francisco to Washington, I had heard over and over again in my head the same "
"advice from Don Ayer: You need to make them see why it is important. And "
"alternating with that command was the question of Justice Kennedy: "
"<quote>For all these years the act has impeded progress in science and the "
"useful arts. I just don't see any empirical evidence for that.</quote> And "
"so, having failed in the argument of constitutional principle, finally, I "
"turned to an argument of politics."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 256 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12089
msgid ""
"<citetitle>The New York Times</citetitle> published the piece. In it, I "
"proposed a simple fix: Fifty years after a work has been published, the "
"copyright owner would be required to register the work and pay a small "
"fee. If he paid the fee, he got the benefit of the full term of "
"copyright. If he did not, the work passed into the public domain."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12097
msgid ""
"We called this the Eldred Act, but that was just to give it a name.  Eric "
"Eldred was kind enough to let his name be used once again, but as he said "
"early on, it won't get passed unless it has another name."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12102
msgid ""
"Or another two names. For depending upon your perspective, this is either "
"the <quote>Public Domain Enhancement Act</quote> or the <quote>Copyright "
"Term Deregulation Act.</quote> Either way, the essence of the idea is clear "
"and obvious: Remove copyright where it is doing nothing except blocking "
"access and the spread of knowledge. Leave it for as long as Congress allows "
"for those works where its worth is at least $1. But for everything else, let "
"the content go."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:12110 freeculture.xml:12310
msgid "Forbes, Steve"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12112
msgid ""
"The reaction to this idea was amazingly strong. Steve Forbes endorsed it in "
"an editorial. I received an avalanche of e-mail and letters expressing "
"support. When you focus the issue on lost creativity, people can see the "
"copyright system makes no sense. As a good Republican might say, here "
"government regulation is simply getting in the way of innovation and "
"creativity. And as a good Democrat might say, here the government is "
"blocking access and the spread of knowledge for no good reason. Indeed, "
"there is no real difference between Democrats and Republicans on this "
"issue. Anyone can recognize the stupid harm of the present system."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12124
msgid ""
"Indeed, many recognized the obvious benefit of the registration "
"requirement.  For one of the hardest things about the current system for "
"people who want to license content is that there is no obvious place to look "
"for the current copyright owners. Since registration is not required, since "
"marking content is not required, since no formality at all is required, it "
"is often impossibly hard to locate copyright owners to ask permission to use "
"or license their work. This system would lower these costs, by establishing "
"at least one registry where copyright owners could be identified."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:12134
msgid "Berlin Act (1908)"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:12135 freeculture.xml:12175
msgid "Berne Convention (1908)"
msgstr ""

#.  f1. 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12143
msgid ""
"Until the 1908 Berlin Act of the Berne Convention, national copyright "
"legislation sometimes made protection depend upon compliance with "
"formalities such as registration, deposit, and affixation of notice of the "
"author's claim of copyright. However, starting with the 1908 act, every text "
"of the Convention has provided that <quote>the enjoyment and the "
"exercise</quote> of rights guaranteed by the Convention <quote>shall not be "
"subject to any formality.</quote> The prohibition against formalities is "
"presently embodied in Article 5(2) of the Paris Text of the Berne "
"Convention. Many countries continue to impose some form of deposit or "
"registration requirement, albeit not as a condition of copyright. French "
"law, for example, requires the deposit of copies of works in national "
"repositories, principally the National Museum.  Copies of books published in "
"the United Kingdom must be deposited in the British Library. The German "
"Copyright Act provides for a Registrar of Authors where the author's true "
"name can be filed in the case of anonymous or pseudonymous works. Paul "
"Goldstein, <citetitle>International Intellectual Property Law, Cases and "
"Materials</citetitle> (New York: Foundation Press, 2001), 153&ndash;54."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12138
msgid ""
"As I described in chapter <xref xrefstyle=\"select: labelnumber\" "
"linkend=\"property-i\"/>, formalities in copyright law were removed in 1976, "
"when Congress followed the Europeans by abandoning any formal requirement "
"before a copyright is granted.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> The "
"Europeans are said to view copyright as a <quote>natural right.</quote> "
"Natural rights don't need forms to exist. Traditions, like the "
"Anglo-American tradition that required copyright owners to follow form if "
"their rights were to be protected, did not, the Europeans thought, properly "
"respect the dignity of the author. My right as a creator turns on my "
"creativity, not upon the special favor of the government."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12169
msgid ""
"That's great rhetoric. It sounds wonderfully romantic. But it is absurd "
"copyright policy. It is absurd especially for authors, because a world "
"without formalities harms the creator. The ability to spread <quote>Walt "
"Disney creativity</quote> is destroyed when there is no simple way to know "
"what's protected and what's not."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12177
msgid ""
"The fight against formalities achieved its first real victory in Berlin in "
"1908. International copyright lawyers amended the Berne Convention in 1908, "
"to require copyright terms of life plus fifty years, as well as the "
"abolition of copyright formalities. The formalities were hated because the "
"stories of inadvertent loss were increasingly common. It was as if a Charles "
"Dickens character ran all copyright offices, and the failure to dot an "
"<citetitle>i</citetitle> or cross a <citetitle>t</citetitle> resulted in the "
"loss of widows' only income."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12187
msgid ""
"These complaints were real and sensible. And the strictness of the "
"formalities, especially in the United States, was absurd. The law should "
"always have ways of forgiving innocent mistakes. There is no reason "
"copyright law couldn't, as well. Rather than abandoning formalities totally, "
"the response in Berlin should have been to embrace a more equitable system "
"of registration."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12195
msgid ""
"Even that would have been resisted, however, because registration in the "
"nineteenth and twentieth centuries was still expensive. It was also a "
"hassle. The abolishment of formalities promised not only to save the "
"starving widows, but also to lighten an unnecessary regulatory burden "
"imposed upon creators."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 258 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12203
msgid ""
"In addition to the practical complaint of authors in 1908, there was a moral "
"claim as well. There was no reason that creative property should be a "
"second-class form of property. If a carpenter builds a table, his rights "
"over the table don't depend upon filing a form with the government.  He has "
"a property right over the table <quote>naturally,</quote> and he can assert "
"that right against anyone who would steal the table, whether or not he has "
"informed the government of his ownership of the table."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12215
msgid ""
"This argument is correct, but its implications are misleading. For the "
"argument in favor of formalities does not depend upon creative property "
"being second-class property. The argument in favor of formalities turns upon "
"the special problems that creative property presents.  The law of "
"formalities responds to the special physics of creative property, to assure "
"that it can be efficiently and fairly spread."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12224
msgid ""
"No one thinks, for example, that land is second-class property just because "
"you have to register a deed with a court if your sale of land is to be "
"effective. And few would think a car is second-class property just because "
"you must register the car with the state and tag it with a license.  In both "
"of those cases, everyone sees that there is an important reason to secure "
"registration&mdash;both because it makes the markets more efficient and "
"because it better secures the rights of the owner. Without a registration "
"system for land, landowners would perpetually have to guard their "
"property. With registration, they can simply point the police to a "
"deed. Without a registration system for cars, auto theft would be much "
"easier. With a registration system, the thief has a high burden to sell a "
"stolen car. A slight burden is placed on the property owner, but those "
"burdens produce a much better system of protection for property generally."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12240
msgid ""
"It is similarly special physics that makes formalities important in "
"copyright law. Unlike a carpenter's table, there's nothing in nature that "
"makes it relatively obvious who might own a particular bit of creative "
"property. A recording of Lyle Lovett's latest album can exist in a billion "
"places without anything necessarily linking it back to a particular "
"owner. And like a car, there's no way to buy and sell creative property with "
"confidence unless there is some simple way to authenticate who is the author "
"and what rights he has. Simple transactions are destroyed in a world without "
"formalities. Complex, expensive, <emphasis>lawyer</emphasis> transactions "
"take their place.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12255
msgid ""
"This was the understanding of the problem with the Sonny Bono Act that we "
"tried to demonstrate to the Court. This was the part it didn't "
"<quote>get.</quote> Because we live in a system without formalities, there "
"is no way easily to build upon or use culture from our past. If copyright "
"terms were, as Justice Story said they would be, <quote>short,</quote> then "
"this wouldn't matter much. For fourteen years, under the framers' system, a "
"work would be presumptively controlled. After fourteen years, it would be "
"presumptively uncontrolled."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12265
msgid ""
"But now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to "
"know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious "
"burden on the creative process. If the only way a library can offer an "
"Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights "
"to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity "
"in a way that has never been seen before <emphasis>because there are no "
"formalities</emphasis>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12274
msgid ""
"The Eldred Act was designed to respond to exactly this problem. If it is "
"worth $1 to you, then register your work and you can get the longer "
"term. Others will know how to contact you and, therefore, how to get your "
"permission if they want to use your work. And you will get the benefit of an "
"extended copyright term."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12281
msgid ""
"If it isn't worth it to you to register to get the benefit of an extended "
"term, then it shouldn't be worth it for the government to defend your "
"monopoly over that work either. The work should pass into the public domain "
"where anyone can copy it, or build archives with it, or create a movie based "
"on it. It should become free if it is not worth $1 to you."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12288
msgid ""
"Some worry about the burden on authors. Won't the burden of registering the "
"work mean that the $1 is really misleading? Isn't the hassle worth more than "
"$1? Isn't that the real problem with registration?"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 260 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12294
msgid ""
"It is. The hassle is terrible. The system that exists now is awful. I "
"completely agree that the Copyright Office has done a terrible job (no doubt "
"because they are terribly funded) in enabling simple and cheap "
"registrations. Any real solution to the problem of formalities must address "
"the real problem of <emphasis>governments</emphasis> standing at the core of "
"any system of formalities. In this book, I offer such a solution. That "
"solution essentially remakes the Copyright Office. For now, assume it was "
"Amazon that ran the registration system. Assume it was one-click "
"registration.  The Eldred Act would propose a simple, one-click registration "
"fifty years after a work was published. Based upon historical data, that "
"system would move up to 98 percent of commercial work, commercial work that "
"no longer had a commercial life, into the public domain within fifty "
"years. What do you think?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12312
msgid ""
"When Steve Forbes endorsed the idea, some in Washington began to pay "
"attention. Many people contacted me pointing to representatives who might be "
"willing to introduce the Eldred Act. And I had a few who directly suggested "
"that they might be willing to take the first step."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:12325
msgid "Lofgren, Zoe"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12318
msgid ""
"One representative, Zoe Lofgren of California, went so far as to get the "
"bill drafted. The draft solved any problem with international law. It "
"imposed the simplest requirement upon copyright owners possible. In May "
"2003, it looked as if the bill would be introduced. On May 16, I posted on "
"the Eldred Act blog, <quote>we are close.</quote> There was a general "
"reaction in the blog community that something good might happen here.  "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12328
msgid ""
"But at this stage, the lobbyists began to intervene. Jack Valenti and the "
"MPAA general counsel came to the congresswoman's office to give the view of "
"the MPAA. Aided by his lawyer, as Valenti told me, Valenti informed the "
"congresswoman that the MPAA would oppose the Eldred Act. The reasons are "
"embarrassingly thin. More importantly, their thinness shows something clear "
"about what this debate is really about."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 261 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12336
msgid ""
"The MPAA argued first that Congress had <quote>firmly rejected the central "
"concept in the proposed bill</quote>&mdash;that copyrights be renewed. That "
"was true, but irrelevant, as Congress's <quote>firm rejection</quote> had "
"occurred long before the Internet made subsequent uses much more likely.  "
"Second, they argued that the proposal would harm poor copyright "
"owners&mdash;apparently those who could not afford the $1 fee. Third, they "
"argued that Congress had determined that extending a copyright term would "
"encourage restoration work. Maybe in the case of the small percentage of "
"work covered by copyright law that is still commercially valuable, but again "
"this was irrelevant, as the proposal would not cut off the extended term "
"unless the $1 fee was not paid. Fourth, the MPAA argued that the bill would "
"impose <quote>enormous</quote> costs, since a registration system is not "
"free. True enough, but those costs are certainly less than the costs of "
"clearing the rights for a copyright whose owner is not known. Fifth, they "
"worried about the risks if the copyright to a story underlying a film were "
"to pass into the public domain. But what risk is that? If it is in the "
"public domain, then the film is a valid derivative use."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12357
msgid ""
"Finally, the MPAA argued that existing law enabled copyright owners to do "
"this if they wanted. But the whole point is that there are thousands of "
"copyright owners who don't even know they have a copyright to give. Whether "
"they are free to give away their copyright or not&mdash;a controversial "
"claim in any case&mdash;unless they know about a copyright, they're not "
"likely to."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12365
msgid ""
"At the beginning of this book, I told two stories about the law reacting to "
"changes in technology. In the one, common sense prevailed.  In the other, "
"common sense was delayed. The difference between the two stories was the "
"power of the opposition&mdash;the power of the side that fought to defend "
"the status quo. In both cases, a new technology threatened old "
"interests. But in only one case did those interest's have the power to "
"protect themselves against this new competitive threat."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12375
msgid ""
"I used these two cases as a way to frame the war that this book has been "
"about. For here, too, a new technology is forcing the law to react.  And "
"here, too, we should ask, is the law following or resisting common sense? If "
"common sense supports the law, what explains this common sense?"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 262 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12384
msgid ""
"When the issue is piracy, it is right for the law to back the copyright "
"owners. The commercial piracy that I described is wrong and harmful, and the "
"law should work to eliminate it. When the issue is p2p sharing, it is easy "
"to understand why the law backs the owners still: Much of this sharing is "
"wrong, even if much is harmless. When the issue is copyright terms for the "
"Mickey Mouses of the world, it is possible still to understand why the law "
"favors Hollywood: Most people don't recognize the reasons for limiting "
"copyright terms; it is thus still possible to see good faith within the "
"resistance."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:12403
msgid "Kelly, Kevin"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12395
msgid ""
"But when the copyright owners oppose a proposal such as the Eldred Act, "
"then, finally, there is an example that lays bare the naked selfinterest "
"driving this war. This act would free an extraordinary range of content that "
"is otherwise unused. It wouldn't interfere with any copyright owner's desire "
"to exercise continued control over his content. It would simply liberate "
"what Kevin Kelly calls the <quote>Dark Content</quote> that fills archives "
"around the world. So when the warriors oppose a change like this, we should "
"ask one simple question: <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12406
msgid "What does this industry really want?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12409
msgid ""
"With very little effort, the warriors could protect their content. So the "
"effort to block something like the Eldred Act is not really about protecting "
"<emphasis>their</emphasis> content. The effort to block the Eldred Act is an "
"effort to assure that nothing more passes into the public domain. It is "
"another step to assure that the public domain will never compete, that there "
"will be no use of content that is not commercially controlled, and that "
"there will be no commercial use of content that doesn't require "
"<emphasis>their</emphasis> permission first."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12420
msgid ""
"The opposition to the Eldred Act reveals how extreme the other side is. The "
"most powerful and sexy and well loved of lobbies really has as its aim not "
"the protection of <quote>property</quote> but the rejection of a tradition.  "
"Their aim is not simply to protect what is theirs. <emphasis>Their aim is to "
"assure that all there is is what is theirs</emphasis>."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 263 
#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12428
msgid ""
"It is not hard to understand why the warriors take this view. It is not hard "
"to see why it would benefit them if the competition of the public domain "
"tied to the Internet could somehow be quashed. Just as RCA feared the "
"competition of FM, they fear the competition of a public domain connected to "
"a public that now has the means to create with it and to share its own "
"creation."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12440
msgid ""
"What is hard to understand is why the public takes this view. It is as if "
"the law made airplanes trespassers. The MPAA stands with the Causbys and "
"demands that their remote and useless property rights be respected, so that "
"these remote and forgotten copyright holders might block the progress of "
"others."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12447
msgid ""
"All this seems to follow easily from this untroubled acceptance of the "
"<quote>property</quote> in intellectual property. Common sense supports it, "
"and so long as it does, the assaults will rain down upon the technologies of "
"the Internet. The consequence will be an increasing <quote>permission "
"society.</quote> The past can be cultivated only if you can identify the "
"owner and gain permission to build upon his work. The future will be "
"controlled by this dead (and often unfindable) hand of the past."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><title>
#: freeculture.xml:12459
msgid "CONCLUSION"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:12461
msgid "antiretroviral drugs"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:12464
msgid "HIV/AIDS therapies"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:12467
msgid "Africa, medications for HIV patients in"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12470
msgid ""
"There are more than 35 million people with the AIDS virus "
"worldwide. Twenty-five million of them live in sub-Saharan Africa.  "
"Seventeen million have already died. Seventeen million Africans is "
"proportional percentage-wise to seven million Americans. More importantly, "
"it is seventeen million Africans."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12477
msgid ""
"There is no cure for AIDS, but there are drugs to slow its progression.  "
"These antiretroviral therapies are still experimental, but they have already "
"had a dramatic effect. In the United States, AIDS patients who regularly "
"take a cocktail of these drugs increase their life expectancy by ten to "
"twenty years. For some, the drugs make the disease almost invisible."
msgstr ""

#.  f1. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12492
msgid ""
"Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, <quote>Final Report: Integrating "
"Intellectual Property Rights and Development Policy</quote> (London, 2002), "
"available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link "
"#55</ulink>. According to a World Health Organization press release issued 9 "
"July 2002, only 230,000 of the 6 million who need drugs in the developing "
"world receive them&mdash;and half of them are in Brazil."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12485
msgid ""
"These drugs are expensive. When they were first introduced in the United "
"States, they cost between $10,000 and $15,000 per person per year. Today, "
"some cost $25,000 per year. At these prices, of course, no African nation "
"can afford the drugs for the vast majority of its population: $15,000 is "
"thirty times the per capita gross national product of Zimbabwe. At these "
"prices, the drugs are totally unavailable.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 265 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12503
msgid ""
"These prices are not high because the ingredients of the drugs are "
"expensive. These prices are high because the drugs are protected by "
"patents. The drug companies that produced these life-saving mixes enjoy at "
"least a twenty-year monopoly for their inventions. They use that monopoly "
"power to extract the most they can from the market. That power is in turn "
"used to keep the prices high."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12511
msgid ""
"There are many who are skeptical of patents, especially drug patents. I am "
"not. Indeed, of all the areas of research that might be supported by "
"patents, drug research is, in my view, the clearest case where patents are "
"needed. The patent gives the drug company some assurance that if it is "
"successful in inventing a new drug to treat a disease, it will be able to "
"earn back its investment and more. This is socially an extremely valuable "
"incentive. I am the last person who would argue that the law should abolish "
"it, at least without other changes."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12522
msgid ""
"But it is one thing to support patents, even drug patents. It is another "
"thing to determine how best to deal with a crisis. And as African leaders "
"began to recognize the devastation that AIDS was bringing, they started "
"looking for ways to import HIV treatments at costs significantly below the "
"market price."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:12540 freeculture.xml:12986
msgid "Braithwaite, John"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12538
msgid ""
"See Peter Drahos with John Braithwaite, <citetitle>Information Feudalism: "
"Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?</citetitle> (New York: The New Press, 2003), "
"37.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12529
msgid ""
"In 1997, South Africa tried one tack. It passed a law to allow the "
"importation of patented medicines that had been produced or sold in another "
"nation's market with the consent of the patent owner. For example, if the "
"drug was sold in India, it could be imported into Africa from India. This is "
"called <quote>parallel importation,</quote> and it is generally permitted "
"under international trade law and is specifically permitted within the "
"European Union.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  f3. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12551
msgid ""
"International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI), <citetitle>Patent "
"Protection and Access to HIV/AIDS Pharmaceuticals in Sub-Saharan Africa, a "
"Report Prepared for the World Intellectual Property Organization</citetitle> "
"(Washington, D.C., 2000), 14, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #56</ulink>. For a firsthand "
"account of the struggle over South Africa, see Hearing Before the "
"Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources, House "
"Committee on Government Reform, H. Rep., 1st sess., Ser. No. 106-126 (22 "
"July 1999), 150&ndash;57 (statement of James Love)."
msgstr ""

#.  f4. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12578
msgid ""
"International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI), <citetitle>Patent "
"Protection and Access to HIV/AIDS Pharmaceuticals in Sub-Saharan Africa, a "
"Report Prepared for the World Intellectual Property Organization</citetitle> "
"(Washington, D.C., 2000), 15."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12545
msgid ""
"However, the United States government opposed the bill. Indeed, more than "
"opposed. As the International Intellectual Property Association "
"characterized it, <quote>The U.S. government pressured South Africa &hellip; "
"not to permit compulsory licensing or parallel imports.</quote><placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Through the Office of the United States Trade "
"Representative, the government asked South Africa to change the "
"law&mdash;and to add pressure to that request, in 1998, the USTR listed "
"South Africa for possible trade sanctions.  That same year, more than forty "
"pharmaceutical companies began proceedings in the South African courts to "
"challenge the government's actions. The United States was then joined by "
"other governments from the EU. Their claim, and the claim of the "
"pharmaceutical companies, was that South Africa was violating its "
"obligations under international law by discriminating against a particular "
"kind of patent&mdash; pharmaceutical patents. The demand of these "
"governments, with the United States in the lead, was that South Africa "
"respect these patents as it respects any other patent, regardless of any "
"effect on the treatment of AIDS within South Africa.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12584
msgid ""
"We should place the intervention by the United States in context.  No doubt "
"patents are not the most important reason that Africans don't have access to "
"drugs. Poverty and the total absence of an effective health care "
"infrastructure matter more. But whether patents are the most important "
"reason or not, the price of drugs has an effect on their demand, and patents "
"affect price. And so, whether massive or marginal, there was an effect from "
"our government's intervention to stop the flow of medications into Africa."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12594
msgid ""
"By stopping the flow of HIV treatment into Africa, the United States "
"government was not saving drugs for United States citizens.  This is not "
"like wheat (if they eat it, we can't); instead, the flow that the United "
"States intervened to stop was, in effect, a flow of knowledge: information "
"about how to take chemicals that exist within Africa, and turn those "
"chemicals into drugs that would save 15 to 30 million lives."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12602
msgid ""
"Nor was the intervention by the United States going to protect the profits "
"of United States drug companies&mdash;at least, not substantially. It was "
"not as if these countries were in the position to buy the drugs for the "
"prices the drug companies were charging. Again, the Africans are wildly too "
"poor to afford these drugs at the offered prices. Stopping the parallel "
"import of these drugs would not substantially increase the sales by "
"U.S. companies."
msgstr ""

#.  f5. 
#.  PAGE BREAK 333 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12617
msgid ""
"See Sabin Russell, <quote>New Crusade to Lower AIDS Drug Costs: Africa's "
"Needs at Odds with Firms' Profit Motive,</quote> <citetitle>San Francisco "
"Chronicle</citetitle>, 24 May 1999, A1, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #57</ulink> (<quote>compulsory "
"licenses and gray markets pose a threat to the entire system of intellectual "
"property protection</quote>); Robert Weissman, <quote>AIDS and Developing "
"Countries: Democratizing Access to Essential Medicines,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Foreign Policy in Focus</citetitle> 4:23 (August 1999), available "
"at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #58</ulink> (describing "
"U.S. policy); John A. Harrelson, <quote>TRIPS, Pharmaceutical Patents, and "
"the HIV/AIDS Crisis: Finding the Proper Balance Between Intellectual "
"Property Rights and Compassion, a Synopsis,</quote> <citetitle>Widener Law "
"Symposium Journal</citetitle> (Spring 2001): 175."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12611
msgid ""
"Instead, the argument in favor of restricting this flow of information, "
"which was needed to save the lives of millions, was an argument about the "
"sanctity of property.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> It was "
"because <quote>intellectual property</quote> would be violated that these "
"drugs should not flow into Africa. It was a principle about the importance "
"of <quote>intellectual property</quote> that led these government actors to "
"intervene against the South African response to AIDS."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12638
msgid ""
"Now just step back for a moment. There will be a time thirty years from now "
"when our children look back at us and ask, how could we have let this "
"happen? How could we allow a policy to be pursued whose direct cost would be "
"to speed the death of 15 to 30 million Africans, and whose only real benefit "
"would be to uphold the <quote>sanctity</quote> of an idea? What possible "
"justification could there ever be for a policy that results in so many "
"deaths? What exactly is the insanity that would allow so many to die for "
"such an abstraction?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12648
msgid ""
"Some blame the drug companies. I don't. They are corporations.  Their "
"managers are ordered by law to make money for the corporation.  They push a "
"certain patent policy not because of ideals, but because it is the policy "
"that makes them the most money. And it only makes them the most money "
"because of a certain corruption within our political system&mdash; a "
"corruption the drug companies are certainly not responsible for."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12656
msgid ""
"The corruption is our own politicians' failure of integrity. For the drug "
"companies would love&mdash;they say, and I believe them&mdash;to sell their "
"drugs as cheaply as they can to countries in Africa and elsewhere.  There "
"are issues they'd have to resolve to make sure the drugs didn't get back "
"into the United States, but those are mere problems of technology.  They "
"could be overcome."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 268 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12664
msgid ""
"A different problem, however, could not be overcome. This is the fear of the "
"grandstanding politician who would call the presidents of the drug companies "
"before a Senate or House hearing, and ask, <quote>How is it you can sell "
"this HIV drug in Africa for only $1 a pill, but the same drug would cost an "
"American $1,500?</quote> Because there is no <quote>sound bite</quote> "
"answer to that question, its effect would be to induce regulation of prices "
"in America. The drug companies thus avoid this spiral by avoiding the first "
"step. They reinforce the idea that property should be sacred. They adopt a "
"rational strategy in an irrational context, with the unintended consequence "
"that perhaps millions die. And that rational strategy thus becomes framed in "
"terms of this ideal&mdash;the sanctity of an idea called <quote>intellectual "
"property.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12679
msgid ""
"So when the common sense of your child confronts you, what will you say? "
"When the common sense of a generation finally revolts against what we have "
"done, how will we justify what we have done? What is the argument?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12685
msgid ""
"A sensible patent policy could endorse and strongly support the patent "
"system without having to reach everyone everywhere in exactly the same "
"way. Just as a sensible copyright policy could endorse and strongly support "
"a copyright system without having to regulate the spread of culture "
"perfectly and forever, a sensible patent policy could endorse and strongly "
"support a patent system without having to block the spread of drugs to a "
"country not rich enough to afford market prices in any case. A sensible "
"policy, in other words, could be a balanced policy. For most of our history, "
"both copyright and patent policies were balanced in just this sense."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12697
msgid ""
"But we as a culture have lost this sense of balance. We have lost the "
"critical eye that helps us see the difference between truth and extremism.  "
"A certain property fundamentalism, having no connection to our tradition, "
"now reigns in this culture&mdash;bizarrely, and with consequences more grave "
"to the spread of ideas and culture than almost any other single policy "
"decision that we as a democracy will make."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 269 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12708
msgid ""
"A simple idea blinds us, and under the cover of darkness, much happens that "
"most of us would reject if any of us looked. So uncritically do we accept "
"the idea of property in ideas that we don't even notice how monstrous it is "
"to deny ideas to a people who are dying without them. So uncritically do we "
"accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the "
"control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our "
"culture democratically. Blindness becomes our common sense. And the "
"challenge for anyone who would reclaim the right to cultivate our culture is "
"to find a way to make this common sense open its eyes."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12722
msgid ""
"So far, common sense sleeps. There is no revolt. Common sense does not yet "
"see what there could be to revolt about. The extremism that now dominates "
"this debate fits with ideas that seem natural, and that fit is reinforced by "
"the RCAs of our day. They wage a frantic war to fight <quote>piracy,</quote> "
"and devastate a culture for creativity. They defend the idea of "
"<quote>creative property,</quote> while transforming real creators into "
"modern-day sharecroppers. They are insulted by the idea that rights should "
"be balanced, even though each of the major players in this content war was "
"itself a beneficiary of a more balanced ideal. The hypocrisy reeks. Yet in a "
"city like Washington, hypocrisy is not even noticed. Powerful lobbies, "
"complex issues, and MTV attention spans produce the <quote>perfect "
"storm</quote> for free culture."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:12737
msgid "biomedical research"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:12739
msgid "Wellcome Trust"
msgstr ""

#.  f6. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12744
msgid ""
"Jonathan Krim, <quote>The Quiet War over Open-Source,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Washington Post</citetitle>, August 2003, E1, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #59</ulink>; William New, "
"<quote>Global Group's Shift on `Open Source' Meeting Spurs Stir,</quote> "
"<citetitle>National Journal's Technology Daily</citetitle>, 19 August 2003, "
"available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #60</ulink>; "
"William New, <quote>U.S. Official Opposes `Open Source' Talks at "
"WIPO,</quote> <citetitle>National Journal's Technology Daily</citetitle>, 19 "
"August 2003, available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link "
"#61</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:12772 freeculture.xml:13449
msgid "academic journals"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:12773 freeculture.xml:12864 freeculture.xml:13374
msgid "IBM"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:12774 freeculture.xml:13513
msgid "PLoS (Public Library of Science)"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12741
msgid ""
"In August 2003, a fight broke out in the United States about a decision by "
"the World Intellectual Property Organization to cancel a "
"meeting.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> At the request of a wide "
"range of interests, WIPO had decided to hold a meeting to discuss "
"<quote>open and collaborative projects to create public goods.</quote> These "
"are projects that have been successful in producing public goods without "
"relying exclusively upon a proprietary use of intellectual "
"property. Examples include the Internet and the World Wide Web, both of "
"which were developed on the basis of protocols in the public domain. It "
"included an emerging trend to support open academic journals, including the "
"Public Library of Science project that I describe in the Afterword. It "
"included a project to develop single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which "
"are thought to have great significance in biomedical research. (That "
"nonprofit project comprised a consortium of the Wellcome Trust and "
"pharmaceutical and technological companies, including Amersham Biosciences, "
"AstraZeneca, Aventis, Bayer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Hoffmann-La Roche, "
"Glaxo-SmithKline, IBM, Motorola, Novartis, Pfizer, and Searle.) It included "
"the Global Positioning System, which Ronald Reagan set free in the early "
"1980s. And it included <quote>open source and free software.</quote> "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"2\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"3\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12778
msgid ""
"The aim of the meeting was to consider this wide range of projects from one "
"common perspective: that none of these projects relied upon intellectual "
"property extremism. Instead, in all of them, intellectual property was "
"balanced by agreements to keep access open or to impose limitations on the "
"way in which proprietary claims might be used."
msgstr ""

#.  f7. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12786
msgid ""
"I should disclose that I was one of the people who asked WIPO for the "
"meeting."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12785
msgid ""
"From the perspective of this book, then, the conference was "
"ideal.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> The projects within its "
"scope included both commercial and noncommercial work. They primarily "
"involved science, but from many perspectives.  And WIPO was an ideal venue "
"for this discussion, since WIPO is the preeminent international body dealing "
"with intellectual property issues."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 271 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12796
msgid ""
"Indeed, I was once publicly scolded for not recognizing this fact about "
"WIPO. In February 2003, I delivered a keynote address to a preparatory "
"conference for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). At a "
"press conference before the address, I was asked what I would say. I "
"responded that I would be talking a little about the importance of balance "
"in intellectual property for the development of an information society. The "
"moderator for the event then promptly interrupted to inform me and the "
"assembled reporters that no question about intellectual property would be "
"discussed by WSIS, since those questions were the exclusive domain of "
"WIPO. In the talk that I had prepared, I had actually made the issue of "
"intellectual property relatively minor. But after this astonishing "
"statement, I made intellectual property the sole focus of my talk. There was "
"no way to talk about an <quote>Information Society</quote> unless one also "
"talked about the range of information and culture that would be free. My "
"talk did not make my immoderate moderator very happy. And she was no doubt "
"correct that the scope of intellectual property protections was ordinarily "
"the stuff of WIPO. But in my view, there couldn't be too much of a "
"conversation about how much intellectual property is needed, since in my "
"view, the very idea of balance in intellectual property had been lost."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12820
msgid ""
"So whether or not WSIS can discuss balance in intellectual property, I had "
"thought it was taken for granted that WIPO could and should. And thus the "
"meeting about <quote>open and collaborative projects to create public "
"goods</quote> seemed perfectly appropriate within the WIPO agenda."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12826
msgid ""
"But there is one project within that list that is highly controversial, at "
"least among lobbyists. That project is <quote>open source and free "
"software.</quote> Microsoft in particular is wary of discussion of the "
"subject. From its perspective, a conference to discuss open source and free "
"software would be like a conference to discuss Apple's operating "
"system. Both open source and free software compete with Microsoft's "
"software. And internationally, many governments have begun to explore "
"requirements that they use open source or free software, rather than "
"<quote>proprietary software,</quote> for their own internal uses."
msgstr ""

#.  f8. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12848
msgid ""
"Microsoft's position about free and open source software is more "
"sophisticated.  As it has repeatedly asserted, it has no problem with "
"<quote>open source</quote> software or software in the public "
"domain. Microsoft's principal opposition is to <quote>free software</quote> "
"licensed under a <quote>copyleft</quote> license, meaning a license that "
"requires the licensee to adopt the same terms on any derivative work. See "
"Bradford L. Smith, <quote>The Future of Software: Enabling the Marketplace "
"to Decide,</quote> <citetitle>Government Policy Toward Open Source "
"Software</citetitle> (Washington, D.C.: AEI-Brookings Joint Center for "
"Regulatory Studies, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy "
"Research, 2002), 69, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #62</ulink>. See also Craig "
"Mundie, Microsoft senior vice president, <citetitle>The Commercial Software "
"Model</citetitle>, discussion at New York University Stern School of "
"Business (3 May 2001), available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #63</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:12865
msgid "<quote>copyleft</quote> licenses"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12837
msgid ""
"I don't mean to enter that debate here. It is important only to make clear "
"that the distinction is not between commercial and noncommercial "
"software. There are many important companies that depend fundamentally upon "
"open source and free software, IBM being the most prominent. IBM is "
"increasingly shifting its focus to the GNU/Linux operating system, the most "
"famous bit of <quote>free software</quote>&mdash;and IBM is emphatically a "
"commercial entity. Thus, to support <quote>open source and free "
"software</quote> is not to oppose commercial entities. It is, instead, to "
"support a mode of software development that is different from "
"Microsoft's.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"2\"/> "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"3\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"4\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 272 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12870
msgid ""
"More important for our purposes, to support <quote>open source and free "
"software</quote> is not to oppose copyright. <quote>Open source and free "
"software</quote> is not software in the public domain. Instead, like "
"Microsoft's software, the copyright owners of free and open source software "
"insist quite strongly that the terms of their software license be respected "
"by adopters of free and open source software. The terms of that license are "
"no doubt different from the terms of a proprietary software license.  Free "
"software licensed under the General Public License (GPL), for example, "
"requires that the source code for the software be made available by anyone "
"who modifies and redistributes the software. But that requirement is "
"effective only if copyright governs software. If copyright did not govern "
"software, then free software could not impose the same kind of requirements "
"on its adopters. It thus depends upon copyright law just as Microsoft does."
msgstr ""

#.  f9. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12896
msgid ""
"Krim, <quote>The Quiet War over Open-Source,</quote> available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #64</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:12900
msgid "Krim, Jonathan"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12888
msgid ""
"It is therefore understandable that as a proprietary software developer, "
"Microsoft would oppose this WIPO meeting, and understandable that it would "
"use its lobbyists to get the United States government to oppose it, as "
"well. And indeed, that is just what was reported to have happened. According "
"to Jonathan Krim of the <citetitle>Washington Post</citetitle>, Microsoft's "
"lobbyists succeeded in getting the United States government to veto the "
"meeting.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> And without U.S. backing, "
"the meeting was canceled.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12903
msgid ""
"I don't blame Microsoft for doing what it can to advance its own interests, "
"consistent with the law. And lobbying governments is plainly consistent with "
"the law. There was nothing surprising about its lobbying here, and nothing "
"terribly surprising about the most powerful software producer in the United "
"States having succeeded in its lobbying efforts."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12911
msgid ""
"What was surprising was the United States government's reason for opposing "
"the meeting. Again, as reported by Krim, Lois Boland, acting director of "
"international relations for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, explained "
"that <quote>open-source software runs counter to the mission of WIPO, which "
"is to promote intellectual-property rights.</quote> She is quoted as saying, "
"<quote>To hold a meeting which has as its purpose to disclaim or waive such "
"rights seems to us to be contrary to the goals of WIPO.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12921
msgid "These statements are astonishing on a number of levels."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12925
msgid ""
"First, they are just flat wrong. As I described, most open source and free "
"software relies fundamentally upon the intellectual property right called "
"<quote>copyright</quote>.  Without it, restrictions imposed by those "
"licenses wouldn't work. Thus, to say it <quote>runs counter</quote> to the "
"mission of promoting intellectual property rights reveals an extraordinary "
"gap in understanding&mdash;the sort of mistake that is excusable in a "
"first-year law student, but an embarrassment from a high government official "
"dealing with intellectual property issues."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12935
msgid ""
"Second, who ever said that WIPO's exclusive aim was to "
"<quote>promote</quote> intellectual property maximally? As I had been "
"scolded at the preparatory conference of WSIS, WIPO is to consider not only "
"how best to protect intellectual property, but also what the best balance of "
"intellectual property is. As every economist and lawyer knows, the hard "
"question in intellectual property law is to find that balance. But that "
"there should be limits is, I had thought, uncontested. One wants to ask "
"Ms. Boland, are generic drugs (drugs based on drugs whose patent has "
"expired) contrary to the WIPO mission? Does the public domain weaken "
"intellectual property? Would it have been better if the protocols of the "
"Internet had been patented?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12948
msgid ""
"Third, even if one believed that the purpose of WIPO was to maximize "
"intellectual property rights, in our tradition, intellectual property rights "
"are held by individuals and corporations. They get to decide what to do with "
"those rights because, again, they are <emphasis>their</emphasis> rights. If "
"they want to <quote>waive</quote> or <quote>disclaim</quote> their rights, "
"that is, within our tradition, totally appropriate. When Bill Gates gives "
"away more than $20 billion to do good in the world, that is not inconsistent "
"with the objectives of the property system. That is, on the contrary, just "
"what a property system is supposed to be about: giving individuals the right "
"to decide what to do with <emphasis>their</emphasis> property.  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 274 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12962
msgid ""
"When Ms. Boland says that there is something wrong with a meeting "
"<quote>which has as its purpose to disclaim or waive such rights,</quote> "
"she's saying that WIPO has an interest in interfering with the choices of "
"the individuals who own intellectual property rights. That somehow, WIPO's "
"objective should be to stop an individual from <quote>waiving</quote> or "
"<quote>disclaiming</quote> an intellectual property right. That the interest "
"of WIPO is not just that intellectual property rights be maximized, but that "
"they also should be exercised in the most extreme and restrictive way "
"possible."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12974
msgid ""
"There is a history of just such a property system that is well known in the "
"Anglo-American tradition. It is called <quote>feudalism.</quote> Under "
"feudalism, not only was property held by a relatively small number of "
"individuals and entities. And not only were the rights that ran with that "
"property powerful and extensive. But the feudal system had a strong interest "
"in assuring that property holders within that system not weaken feudalism by "
"liberating people or property within their control to the free "
"market. Feudalism depended upon maximum control and concentration. It fought "
"any freedom that might interfere with that control."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12991
msgid ""
"See Drahos with Braithwaite, <citetitle>Information Feudalism</citetitle>, "
"210&ndash;20.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:12988
msgid ""
"As Peter Drahos and John Braithwaite relate, this is precisely the choice we "
"are now making about intellectual property.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"0\"/> We will have an information society. That much is certain. Our "
"only choice now is whether that information society will be "
"<emphasis>free</emphasis> or <emphasis>feudal</emphasis>. The trend is "
"toward the feudal."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13000
msgid ""
"When this battle broke, I blogged it. A spirited debate within the comment "
"section ensued. Ms. Boland had a number of supporters who tried to show why "
"her comments made sense. But there was one comment that was particularly "
"depressing for me. An anonymous poster wrote,"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 275 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13007
msgid ""
"George, you misunderstand Lessig: He's only talking about the world as it "
"should be (<quote>the goal of WIPO, and the goal of any government, should "
"be to promote the right balance of intellectual property rights, not simply "
"to promote intellectual property rights</quote>), not as it is. If we were "
"talking about the world as it is, then of course Boland didn't say anything "
"wrong. But in the world as Lessig would have it, then of course she "
"did. Always pay attention to the distinction between Lessig's world and "
"ours."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13019
msgid ""
"I missed the irony the first time I read it. I read it quickly and thought "
"the poster was supporting the idea that seeking balance was what our "
"government should be doing. (Of course, my criticism of Ms.  Boland was not "
"about whether she was seeking balance or not; my criticism was that her "
"comments betrayed a first-year law student's mistake. I have no illusion "
"about the extremism of our government, whether Republican or Democrat. My "
"only illusion apparently is about whether our government should speak the "
"truth or not.)"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13029
msgid ""
"Obviously, however, the poster was not supporting that idea.  Instead, the "
"poster was ridiculing the very idea that in the real world, the "
"<quote>goal</quote> of a government should be <quote>to promote the right "
"balance</quote> of intellectual property. That was obviously silly to "
"him. And it obviously betrayed, he believed, my own silly "
"utopianism. <quote>Typical for an academic,</quote> the poster might well "
"have continued."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13037
msgid ""
"I understand criticism of academic utopianism. I think utopianism is silly, "
"too, and I'd be the first to poke fun at the absurdly unrealistic ideals of "
"academics throughout history (and not just in our own country's history)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13043
msgid ""
"But when it has become silly to suppose that the role of our government "
"should be to <quote>seek balance,</quote> then count me with the silly, for "
"that means that this has become quite serious indeed. If it should be "
"obvious to everyone that the government does not seek balance, that the "
"government is simply the tool of the most powerful lobbyists, that the idea "
"of holding the government to a different standard is absurd, that the idea "
"of demanding of the government that it speak truth and not lies is just "
"na&iuml;ve, then who have we, the most powerful democracy in the world, "
"become?"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 276 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13054
msgid ""
"It might be crazy to expect a high government official to speak the "
"truth. It might be crazy to believe that government policy will be something "
"more than the handmaiden of the most powerful interests.  It might be crazy "
"to argue that we should preserve a tradition that has been part of our "
"tradition for most of our history&mdash;free culture."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:13063
msgid "Turner, Ted"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13065
msgid ""
"If this is crazy, then let there be more crazies. Soon.  There are moments "
"of hope in this struggle. And moments that surprise. When the FCC was "
"considering relaxing ownership rules, which would thereby further increase "
"the concentration in media ownership, an extraordinary bipartisan coalition "
"formed to fight this change. For perhaps the first time in history, "
"interests as diverse as the NRA, the ACLU, Moveon.org, William Safire, Ted "
"Turner, and CodePink Women for Peace organized to oppose this change in FCC "
"policy. An astonishing 700,000 letters were sent to the FCC, demanding more "
"hearings and a different result."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13077
msgid ""
"This activism did not stop the FCC, but soon after, a broad coalition in the "
"Senate voted to reverse the FCC decision. The hostile hearings leading up to "
"that vote revealed just how powerful this movement had become. There was no "
"substantial support for the FCC's decision, and there was broad and "
"sustained support for fighting further concentration in the media."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13085
msgid ""
"But even this movement misses an important piece of the puzzle.  Largeness "
"as such is not bad. Freedom is not threatened just because some become very "
"rich, or because there are only a handful of big players.  The poor quality "
"of Big Macs or Quarter Pounders does not mean that you can't get a good "
"hamburger from somewhere else."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13092
msgid ""
"The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but "
"instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in "
"copyright, produces. It is not just that there are a few powerful companies "
"that control an ever expanding slice of the media. It is that this "
"concentration can call upon an equally bloated range of "
"rights&mdash;property rights of a historically extreme form&mdash;that makes "
"their bigness bad."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13102
msgid ""
"It is therefore significant that so many would rally to demand competition "
"and increased diversity. Still, if the rally is understood as being about "
"bigness alone, it is not terribly surprising. We Americans have a long "
"history of fighting <quote>big,</quote> wisely or not. That we could be "
"motivated to fight <quote>big</quote> again is not something new."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13109
msgid ""
"It would be something new, and something very important, if an equal number "
"could be rallied to fight the increasing extremism built within the idea of "
"<quote>intellectual property.</quote> Not because balance is alien to our "
"tradition; indeed, as I've argued, balance is our tradition. But because the "
"muscle to think critically about the scope of anything called "
"<quote>property</quote> is not well exercised within this tradition anymore."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13117
msgid ""
"If we were Achilles, this would be our heel. This would be the place of our "
"tragedy."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:13120
msgid "Dylan, Bob"
msgstr ""

#.  f11. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13125
msgid ""
"John Borland, <quote>RIAA Sues 261 File Swappers,</quote> CNET News.com, "
"September 2003, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #65</ulink>; Paul R. La Monica, "
"<quote>Music Industry Sues Swappers,</quote> CNN/Money, 8 September 2003, "
"available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #66</ulink>; "
"Soni Sangha and Phyllis Furman with Robert Gearty, <quote>Sued for a Song, "
"N.Y.C. 12-Yr-Old Among 261 Cited as Sharers,</quote> <citetitle>New York "
"Daily News</citetitle>, 9 September 2003, 3; Frank Ahrens, <quote>RIAA's "
"Lawsuits Meet Surprised Targets; Single Mother in Calif., 12-Year-Old Girl "
"in N.Y. Among Defendants,</quote> <citetitle>Washington Post</citetitle>, 10 "
"September 2003, E1; Katie Dean, <quote>Schoolgirl Settles with RIAA,</quote> "
"<citetitle>Wired News</citetitle>, 10 September 2003, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #67</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#.  f12. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13143
msgid ""
"Jon Wiederhorn, <quote>Eminem Gets Sued &hellip; by a Little Old "
"Lady,</quote> mtv.com, 17 September 2003, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #68</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#.  f13. 
#.  PAGE BREAK 334 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13150
msgid ""
"Kenji Hall, Associated Press, <quote>Japanese Book May Be Inspiration for "
"Dylan Songs,</quote> Kansascity.com, 9 July 2003, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #69</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13122
msgid ""
"As I write these final words, the news is filled with stories about the RIAA "
"lawsuits against almost three hundred individuals.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Eminem has just been sued for "
"<quote>sampling</quote> someone else's music.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"1\"/> The story about Bob Dylan <quote>stealing</quote> from a Japanese "
"author has just finished making the rounds.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"2\"/> An insider from Hollywood&mdash;who insists he must remain "
"anonymous&mdash;reports <quote>an amazing conversation with these studio "
"guys. They've got extraordinary [old] content that they'd love to use but "
"can't because they can't begin to clear the rights. They've got scores of "
"kids who could do amazing things with the content, but it would take scores "
"of lawyers to clean it first.</quote> Congressmen are talking about "
"deputizing computer viruses to bring down computers thought to violate the "
"law. Universities are threatening expulsion for kids who use a computer to "
"share content."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:13167 freeculture.xml:13530
msgid "Creative Commons"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:13168
msgid "Gil, Gilberto"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:13169
msgid "BBC"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:13170
msgid "Brazil, free culture in"
msgstr ""

#.  f14. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13175
msgid ""
"<quote>BBC Plans to Open Up Its Archive to the Public,</quote> BBC press "
"release, 24 August 2003, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #70</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#.  f15. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13184
msgid ""
"<quote>Creative Commons and Brazil,</quote> Creative Commons Weblog, 6 "
"August 2003, available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link "
"#71</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 278 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13172
msgid ""
"Yet on the other side of the Atlantic, the BBC has just announced that it "
"will build a <quote>Creative Archive,</quote> from which British citizens "
"can download BBC content, and rip, mix, and burn it.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> And in Brazil, the culture minister, Gilberto "
"Gil, himself a folk hero of Brazilian music, has joined with Creative "
"Commons to release content and free licenses in that Latin American "
"country.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> I've told a dark "
"story. The truth is more mixed. A technology has given us a new "
"freedom. Slowly, some begin to understand that this freedom need not mean "
"anarchy. We can carry a free culture into the twenty-first century, without "
"artists losing and without the potential of digital technology being "
"destroyed. It will take some thought, and more importantly, it will take "
"some will to transform the RCAs of our day into the Causbys."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 279 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13198
msgid ""
"Common sense must revolt. It must act to free culture. Soon, if this "
"potential is ever to be realized."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><title>
#: freeculture.xml:13206
msgid "AFTERWORD"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 280 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13210
msgid ""
"At least some who have read this far will agree with me that something must "
"be done to change where we are heading. The balance of this book maps what "
"might be done."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13215
msgid ""
"I divide this map into two parts: that which anyone can do now, and that "
"which requires the help of lawmakers. If there is one lesson that we can "
"draw from the history of remaking common sense, it is that it requires "
"remaking how many people think about the very same issue."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13221
msgid ""
"That means this movement must begin in the streets. It must recruit a "
"significant number of parents, teachers, librarians, creators, authors, "
"musicians, filmmakers, scientists&mdash;all to tell this story in their own "
"words, and to tell their neighbors why this battle is so important."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13228
msgid ""
"Once this movement has its effect in the streets, it has some hope of having "
"an effect in Washington. We are still a democracy. What people think "
"matters. Not as much as it should, at least when an RCA stands opposed, but "
"still, it matters. And thus, in the second part below, I sketch changes that "
"Congress could make to better secure a free culture."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:13237
msgid "US, NOW"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13239
msgid ""
"Common sense is with the copyright warriors because the debate so far has "
"been framed at the extremes&mdash;as a grand either/or: either property or "
"anarchy, either total control or artists won't be paid. If that really is "
"the choice, then the warriors should win."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13245
msgid ""
"The mistake here is the error of the excluded middle. There are extremes in "
"this debate, but the extremes are not all that there is. There are those who "
"believe in maximal copyright&mdash;<quote>All Rights Reserved</quote>&mdash; "
"and those who reject copyright&mdash;<quote>No Rights Reserved.</quote> The "
"<quote>All Rights Reserved</quote> sorts believe that you should ask "
"permission before you <quote>use</quote> a copyrighted work in any way. The "
"<quote>No Rights Reserved</quote> sorts believe you should be able to do "
"with content as you wish, regardless of whether you have permission or not."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 282 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13255
msgid ""
"When the Internet was first born, its initial architecture effectively "
"tilted in the <quote>no rights reserved</quote> direction. Content could be "
"copied perfectly and cheaply; rights could not easily be controlled. Thus, "
"regardless of anyone's desire, the effective regime of copyright under the "
"original design of the Internet was <quote>no rights reserved.</quote> "
"Content was <quote>taken</quote> regardless of the rights. Any rights were "
"effectively unprotected."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13267
msgid ""
"This initial character produced a reaction (opposite, but not quite equal) "
"by copyright owners. That reaction has been the topic of this book. Through "
"legislation, litigation, and changes to the network's design, copyright "
"holders have been able to change the essential character of the environment "
"of the original Internet. If the original architecture made the effective "
"default <quote>no rights reserved,</quote> the future architecture will make "
"the effective default <quote>all rights reserved.</quote> The architecture "
"and law that surround the Internet's design will increasingly produce an "
"environment where all use of content requires permission.  The <quote>cut "
"and paste</quote> world that defines the Internet today will become a "
"<quote>get permission to cut and paste</quote> world that is a creator's "
"nightmare."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13281
msgid ""
"What's needed is a way to say something in the middle&mdash;neither "
"<quote>all rights reserved</quote> nor <quote>no rights reserved</quote> but "
"<quote>some rights reserved</quote>&mdash; and thus a way to respect "
"copyrights but enable creators to free content as they see fit. In other "
"words, we need a way to restore a set of freedoms that we could just take "
"for granted before."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:13290
msgid "Rebuilding Freedoms Previously Presumed: Examples"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13292
msgid ""
"If you step back from the battle I've been describing here, you will "
"recognize this problem from other contexts. Think about privacy. Before the "
"Internet, most of us didn't have to worry much about data about our lives "
"that we broadcast to the world. If you walked into a bookstore and browsed "
"through some of the works of Karl Marx, you didn't need to worry about "
"explaining your browsing habits to your neighbors or boss. The "
"<quote>privacy</quote> of your browsing habits was assured."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13302
msgid "What made it assured?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13306
msgid ""
"Well, if we think in terms of the modalities I described in chapter <xref "
"xrefstyle=\"select: labelnumber\" linkend=\"property-i\"/>, your privacy was "
"assured because of an inefficient architecture for gathering data and hence "
"a market constraint (cost) on anyone who wanted to gather that data. If you "
"were a suspected spy for North Korea, working for the CIA, no doubt your "
"privacy would not be assured.  But that's because the CIA would (we hope) "
"find it valuable enough to spend the thousands required to track you. But "
"for most of us (again, we can hope), spying doesn't pay. The highly "
"inefficient architecture of real space means we all enjoy a fairly robust "
"amount of privacy. That privacy is guaranteed to us by friction. Not by law "
"(there is no law protecting <quote>privacy</quote> in public places), and in "
"many places, not by norms (snooping and gossip are just fun), but instead, "
"by the costs that friction imposes on anyone who would want to spy."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:13321
msgid "Amazon"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:13331
msgid "cookies, Internet"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13323
msgid ""
"Enter the Internet, where the cost of tracking browsing in particular has "
"become quite tiny. If you're a customer at Amazon, then as you browse the "
"pages, Amazon collects the data about what you've looked at. You know this "
"because at the side of the page, there's a list of <quote>recently "
"viewed</quote> pages. Now, because of the architecture of the Net and the "
"function of cookies on the Net, it is easier to collect the data than "
"not. The friction has disappeared, and hence any <quote>privacy</quote> "
"protected by the friction disappears, too.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13334
msgid ""
"Amazon, of course, is not the problem. But we might begin to worry about "
"libraries. If you're one of those crazy lefties who thinks that people "
"should have the <quote>right</quote> to browse in a library without the "
"government knowing which books you look at (I'm one of those lefties, too), "
"then this change in the technology of monitoring might concern you. If it "
"becomes simple to gather and sort who does what in electronic spaces, then "
"the friction-induced privacy of yesterday disappears."
msgstr ""

#.  f1. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13350
msgid ""
"See, for example, Marc Rotenberg, <quote>Fair Information Practices and the "
"Architecture of Privacy (What Larry Doesn't Get),</quote> "
"<citetitle>Stanford Technology Law Review</citetitle> 1 (2001): "
"par. 6&ndash;18, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #72</ulink> (describing examples "
"in which technology defines privacy policy). See also Jeffrey Rosen, "
"<citetitle>The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious "
"Age</citetitle> (New York: Random House, 2004) (mapping tradeoffs between "
"technology and privacy)."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 284 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13344
msgid ""
"It is this reality that explains the push of many to define "
"<quote>privacy</quote> on the Internet. It is the recognition that "
"technology can remove what friction before gave us that leads many to push "
"for laws to do what friction did.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
"And whether you're in favor of those laws or not, it is the pattern that is "
"important here. We must take affirmative steps to secure a kind of freedom "
"that was passively provided before. A change in technology now forces those "
"who believe in privacy to affirmatively act where, before, privacy was given "
"by default."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13368
msgid ""
"A similar story could be told about the birth of the free software "
"movement. When computers with software were first made available "
"commercially, the software&mdash;both the source code and the "
"binaries&mdash; was free. You couldn't run a program written for a Data "
"General machine on an IBM machine, so Data General and IBM didn't care much "
"about controlling their software.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:13376
msgid "Stallman, Richard"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13378
msgid ""
"That was the world Richard Stallman was born into, and while he was a "
"researcher at MIT, he grew to love the community that developed when one was "
"free to explore and tinker with the software that ran on machines. Being a "
"smart sort himself, and a talented programmer, Stallman grew to depend upon "
"the freedom to add to or modify other people's work."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13386
msgid ""
"In an academic setting, at least, that's not a terribly radical idea. In a "
"math department, anyone would be free to tinker with a proof that someone "
"offered. If you thought you had a better way to prove a theorem, you could "
"take what someone else did and change it. In a classics department, if you "
"believed a colleague's translation of a recently discovered text was flawed, "
"you were free to improve it. Thus, to Stallman, it seemed obvious that you "
"should be free to tinker with and improve the code that ran a machine. This, "
"too, was knowledge. Why shouldn't it be open for criticism like anything "
"else?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13398
msgid ""
"No one answered that question. Instead, the architecture of revenue for "
"computing changed. As it became possible to import programs from one system "
"to another, it became economically attractive (at least in the view of some) "
"to hide the code of your program. So, too, as companies started selling "
"peripherals for mainframe systems. If I could just take your printer driver "
"and copy it, then that would make it easier for me to sell a printer to the "
"market than it was for you."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 285 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13407
msgid ""
"Thus, the practice of proprietary code began to spread, and by the early "
"1980s, Stallman found himself surrounded by proprietary code.  The world of "
"free software had been erased by a change in the economics of computing. And "
"as he believed, if he did nothing about it, then the freedom to change and "
"share software would be fundamentally weakened."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:13415
msgid "Torvalds, Linus"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13417
msgid ""
"Therefore, in 1984, Stallman began a project to build a free operating "
"system, so that at least a strain of free software would survive. That was "
"the birth of the GNU project, into which Linus Torvalds's "
"<quote>Linux</quote> kernel was added to produce the GNU/Linux operating "
"system.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13425
msgid ""
"Stallman's technique was to use copyright law to build a world of software "
"that must be kept free. Software licensed under the Free Software "
"Foundation's GPL cannot be modified and distributed unless the source code "
"for that software is made available as well. Thus, anyone building upon "
"GPL'd software would have to make their buildings free as well. This would "
"assure, Stallman believed, that an ecology of code would develop that "
"remained free for others to build upon. His fundamental goal was freedom; "
"innovative creative code was a byproduct."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13436
msgid ""
"Stallman was thus doing for software what privacy advocates now do for "
"privacy. He was seeking a way to rebuild a kind of freedom that was taken "
"for granted before. Through the affirmative use of licenses that bind "
"copyrighted code, Stallman was affirmatively reclaiming a space where free "
"software would survive. He was actively protecting what before had been "
"passively guaranteed."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13444
msgid ""
"Finally, consider a very recent example that more directly resonates with "
"the story of this book. This is the shift in the way academic and scientific "
"journals are produced."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 286 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13452
msgid ""
"As digital technologies develop, it is becoming obvious to many that "
"printing thousands of copies of journals every month and sending them to "
"libraries is perhaps not the most efficient way to distribute "
"knowledge. Instead, journals are increasingly becoming electronic, and "
"libraries and their users are given access to these electronic journals "
"through password-protected sites. Something similar to this has been "
"happening in law for almost thirty years: Lexis and Westlaw have had "
"electronic versions of case reports available to subscribers to their "
"service.  Although a Supreme Court opinion is not copyrighted, and anyone is "
"free to go to a library and read it, Lexis and Westlaw are also free to "
"charge users for the privilege of gaining access to that Supreme Court "
"opinion through their respective services."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13468
msgid ""
"There's nothing wrong in general with this, and indeed, the ability to "
"charge for access to even public domain materials is a good incentive for "
"people to develop new and innovative ways to spread knowledge.  The law has "
"agreed, which is why Lexis and Westlaw have been allowed to flourish. And if "
"there's nothing wrong with selling the public domain, then there could be "
"nothing wrong, in principle, with selling access to material that is not in "
"the public domain."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13477
msgid ""
"But what if the only way to get access to social and scientific data was "
"through proprietary services? What if no one had the ability to browse this "
"data except by paying for a subscription?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13482
msgid ""
"As many are beginning to notice, this is increasingly the reality with "
"scientific journals. When these journals were distributed in paper form, "
"libraries could make the journals available to anyone who had access to the "
"library. Thus, patients with cancer could become cancer experts because the "
"library gave them access. Or patients trying to understand the risks of a "
"certain treatment could research those risks by reading all available "
"articles about that treatment. This freedom was therefore a function of the "
"institution of libraries (norms) and the technology of paper journals "
"(architecture)&mdash;namely, that it was very hard to control access to a "
"paper journal."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13494
msgid ""
"As journals become electronic, however, the publishers are demanding that "
"libraries not give the general public access to the journals. This means "
"that the freedoms provided by print journals in public libraries begin to "
"disappear. Thus, as with privacy and with software, a changing technology "
"and market shrink a freedom taken for granted before."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13502
msgid ""
"This shrinking freedom has led many to take affirmative steps to restore the "
"freedom that has been lost. The Public Library of Science (PLoS), for "
"example, is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making scientific research "
"available to anyone with a Web connection. Authors of scientific work submit "
"that work to the Public Library of Science.  That work is then subject to "
"peer review. If accepted, the work is then deposited in a public, electronic "
"archive and made permanently available for free. PLoS also sells a print "
"version of its work, but the copyright for the print journal does not "
"inhibit the right of anyone to redistribute the work for free.  <placeholder "
"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13516
msgid ""
"This is one of many such efforts to restore a freedom taken for granted "
"before, but now threatened by changing technology and markets.  There's no "
"doubt that this alternative competes with the traditional publishers and "
"their efforts to make money from the exclusive distribution of content. But "
"competition in our tradition is presumptively a good&mdash;especially when "
"it helps spread knowledge and science."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:13528
msgid "Rebuilding Free Culture: One Idea"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13533
msgid ""
"The same strategy could be applied to culture, as a response to the "
"increasing control effected through law and technology."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:13536
msgid "Stanford University"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13538
msgid ""
"Enter the Creative Commons. The Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation "
"established in Massachusetts, but with its home at Stanford University. Its "
"aim is to build a layer of <emphasis>reasonable</emphasis> copyright on top "
"of the extremes that now reign. It does this by making it easy for people to "
"build upon other people's work, by making it simple for creators to express "
"the freedom for others to take and build upon their work. Simple tags, tied "
"to human-readable descriptions, tied to bulletproof licenses, make this "
"possible."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 288 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13549
msgid ""
"<emphasis>Simple</emphasis>&mdash;which means without a middleman, or "
"without a lawyer.  By developing a free set of licenses that people can "
"attach to their content, Creative Commons aims to mark a range of content "
"that can easily, and reliably, be built upon. These tags are then linked to "
"machine-readable versions of the license that enable computers automatically "
"to identify content that can easily be shared. These three expressions "
"together&mdash;a legal license, a human-readable description, and "
"machine-readable tags&mdash;constitute a Creative Commons license. A "
"Creative Commons license constitutes a grant of freedom to anyone who "
"accesses the license, and more importantly, an expression of the ideal that "
"the person associated with the license believes in something different than "
"the <quote>All</quote> or <quote>No</quote> extremes. Content is marked with "
"the CC mark, which does not mean that copyright is waived, but that certain "
"freedoms are given."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13567
msgid ""
"These freedoms are beyond the freedoms promised by fair use. Their precise "
"contours depend upon the choices the creator makes. The creator can choose a "
"license that permits any use, so long as attribution is given. She can "
"choose a license that permits only noncommercial use.  She can choose a "
"license that permits any use so long as the same freedoms are given to other "
"uses (<quote>share and share alike</quote>). Or any use so long as no "
"derivative use is made. Or any use at all within developing nations. Or any "
"sampling use, so long as full copies are not made. Or lastly, any "
"educational use."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13578
msgid ""
"These choices thus establish a range of freedoms beyond the default of "
"copyright law. They also enable freedoms that go beyond traditional fair "
"use. And most importantly, they express these freedoms in a way that "
"subsequent users can use and rely upon without the need to hire a "
"lawyer. Creative Commons thus aims to build a layer of content, governed by "
"a layer of reasonable copyright law, that others can build upon. Voluntary "
"choice of individuals and creators will make this content available. And "
"that content will in turn enable us to rebuild a public domain."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:13599
msgid "Garlick, Mia"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13589
msgid ""
"This is just one project among many within the Creative Commons.  And of "
"course, Creative Commons is not the only organization pursuing such "
"freedoms. But the point that distinguishes the Creative Commons from many is "
"that we are not interested only in talking about a public domain or in "
"getting legislators to help build a public domain. Our aim is to build a "
"movement of consumers and producers of content (<quote>content "
"conducers,</quote> as attorney Mia Garlick calls them)  who help build the "
"public domain and, by their work, demonstrate the importance of the public "
"domain to other creativity.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13602
msgid ""
"The aim is not to fight the <quote>All Rights Reserved</quote> sorts. The "
"aim is to complement them. The problems that the law creates for us as a "
"culture are produced by insane and unintended consequences of laws written "
"centuries ago, applied to a technology that only Jefferson could have "
"imagined. The rules may well have made sense against a background of "
"technologies from centuries ago, but they do not make sense against the "
"background of digital technologies. New rules&mdash;with different freedoms, "
"expressed in ways so that humans without lawyers can use them&mdash;are "
"needed. Creative Commons gives people a way effectively to begin to build "
"those rules."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13614
msgid ""
"Why would creators participate in giving up total control? Some participate "
"to better spread their content. Cory Doctorow, for example, is a science "
"fiction author. His first novel, <citetitle>Down and Out in the Magic "
"Kingdom</citetitle>, was released on-line and for free, under a Creative "
"Commons license, on the same day that it went on sale in bookstores."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13621
msgid ""
"Why would a publisher ever agree to this? I suspect his publisher reasoned "
"like this: There are two groups of people out there: (1)  those who will buy "
"Cory's book whether or not it's on the Internet, and (2) those who may never "
"hear of Cory's book, if it isn't made available for free on the "
"Internet. Some part of (1) will download Cory's book instead of buying "
"it. Call them bad-(1)s. Some part of (2)  will download Cory's book, like "
"it, and then decide to buy it. Call them (2)-goods.  If there are more "
"(2)-goods than bad-(1)s, the strategy of releasing Cory's book free on-line "
"will probably <emphasis>increase</emphasis> sales of Cory's book."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13633
msgid ""
"Indeed, the experience of his publisher clearly supports that conclusion.  "
"The book's first printing was exhausted months before the publisher had "
"expected. This first novel of a science fiction author was a total success."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:13648
msgid "Free for All (Wayner)"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:13649
msgid "Wayner, Peter"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13639
msgid ""
"The idea that free content might increase the value of nonfree content was "
"confirmed by the experience of another author. Peter Wayner, who wrote a "
"book about the free software movement titled <citetitle>Free for "
"All</citetitle>, made an electronic version of his book free on-line under a "
"Creative Commons license after the book went out of print. He then monitored "
"used book store prices for the book. As predicted, as the number of "
"downloads increased, the used book price for his book increased, as well.  "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:13651
msgid "Public Enemy"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:13652
msgid "rap music"
msgstr ""

#.  f2. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13669
msgid ""
"<citetitle>Willful Infringement: A Report from the Front Lines of the Real "
"Culture Wars</citetitle> (2003), produced by Jed Horovitz, directed by Greg "
"Hittelman, a Fiat Lucre production, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #72</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:13676
msgid "Leaphart, Walter"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13654
msgid ""
"These are examples of using the Commons to better spread proprietary "
"content. I believe that is a wonderful and common use of the Commons. There "
"are others who use Creative Commons licenses for other reasons. Many who use "
"the <quote>sampling license</quote> do so because anything else would be "
"hypocritical. The sampling license says that others are free, for commercial "
"or noncommercial purposes, to sample content from the licensed work; they "
"are just not free to make full copies of the licensed work available to "
"others. This is consistent with their own art&mdash;they, too, sample from "
"others. Because the <emphasis>legal</emphasis> costs of sampling are so high "
"(Walter Leaphart, manager of the rap group Public Enemy, which was born "
"sampling the music of others, has stated that he does not "
"<quote>allow</quote> Public Enemy to sample anymore, because the legal costs "
"are so high<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>), these artists release "
"into the creative environment content that others can build upon, so that "
"their form of creativity might grow.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13679
msgid ""
"Finally, there are many who mark their content with a Creative Commons "
"license just because they want to express to others the importance of "
"balance in this debate. If you just go along with the system as it is, you "
"are effectively saying you believe in the <quote>All Rights Reserved</quote> "
"model. Good for you, but many do not. Many believe that however appropriate "
"that rule is for Hollywood and freaks, it is not an appropriate description "
"of how most creators view the rights associated with their content. The "
"Creative Commons license expresses this notion of <quote>Some Rights "
"Reserved,</quote> and gives many the chance to say it to others."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 291 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13691
msgid ""
"In the first six months of the Creative Commons experiment, over 1 million "
"objects were licensed with these free-culture licenses. The next step is "
"partnerships with middleware content providers to help them build into their "
"technologies simple ways for users to mark their content with Creative "
"Commons freedoms. Then the next step is to watch and celebrate creators who "
"build content based upon content set free."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13701
msgid ""
"These are first steps to rebuilding a public domain. They are not mere "
"arguments; they are action. Building a public domain is the first step to "
"showing people how important that domain is to creativity and "
"innovation. Creative Commons relies upon voluntary steps to achieve this "
"rebuilding. They will lead to a world in which more than voluntary steps are "
"possible."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13709
msgid ""
"Creative Commons is just one example of voluntary efforts by individuals and "
"creators to change the mix of rights that now govern the creative field. The "
"project does not compete with copyright; it complements it. Its aim is not "
"to defeat the rights of authors, but to make it easier for authors and "
"creators to exercise their rights more flexibly and cheaply. That "
"difference, we believe, will enable creativity to spread more easily."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:13723
msgid "THEM, SOON"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13725
msgid ""
"We will not reclaim a free culture by individual action alone. It will also "
"take important reforms of laws. We have a long way to go before the "
"politicians will listen to these ideas and implement these reforms.  But "
"that also means that we have time to build awareness around the changes that "
"we need."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13732
msgid ""
"In this chapter, I outline five kinds of changes: four that are general, and "
"one that's specific to the most heated battle of the day, music. Each is a "
"step, not an end. But any of these steps would carry us a long way to our "
"end."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:13739
msgid "1. More Formalities"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13741
msgid ""
"If you buy a house, you have to record the sale in a deed. If you buy land "
"upon which to build a house, you have to record the purchase in a deed.  If "
"you buy a car, you get a bill of sale and register the car. If you buy an "
"airplane ticket, it has your name on it."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 293 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13748
msgid ""
"These are all formalities associated with property. They are requirements "
"that we all must bear if we want our property to be protected."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13753
msgid ""
"In contrast, under current copyright law, you automatically get a copyright, "
"regardless of whether you comply with any formality. You don't have to "
"register. You don't even have to mark your content. The default is control, "
"and <quote>formalities</quote> are banished."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13759
msgid "Why?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13762
msgid ""
"As I suggested in chapter <xref xrefstyle=\"select: labelnumber\" "
"linkend=\"property-i\"/>, the motivation to abolish formalities was a good "
"one. In the world before digital technologies, formalities imposed a burden "
"on copyright holders without much benefit. Thus, it was progress when the "
"law relaxed the formal requirements that a copyright owner must bear to "
"protect and secure his work. Those formalities were getting in the way."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13771
msgid ""
"But the Internet changes all this. Formalities today need not be a "
"burden. Rather, the world without formalities is the world that burdens "
"creativity. Today, there is no simple way to know who owns what, or with "
"whom one must deal in order to use or build upon the creative work of "
"others. There are no records, there is no system to trace&mdash; there is no "
"simple way to know how to get permission. Yet given the massive increase in "
"the scope of copyright's rule, getting permission is a necessary step for "
"any work that builds upon our past. And thus, the <emphasis>lack</emphasis> "
"of formalities forces many into silence where they otherwise could speak."
msgstr ""

#.  f1. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13785
msgid ""
"The proposal I am advancing here would apply to American works only.  "
"Obviously, I believe it would be beneficial for the same idea to be adopted "
"by other countries as well."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13783
msgid ""
"The law should therefore change this requirement<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>&mdash;but it should not change it by going back "
"to the old, broken system. We should require formalities, but we should "
"establish a system that will create the incentives to minimize the burden of "
"these formalities."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13793
msgid ""
"The important formalities are three: marking copyrighted work, registering "
"copyrights, and renewing the claim to copyright. Traditionally, the first of "
"these three was something the copyright owner did; the second two were "
"something the government did. But a revised system of formalities would "
"banish the government from the process, except for the sole purpose of "
"approving standards developed by others."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:13805
msgid "REGISTRATION AND RENEWAL"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13807
msgid ""
"Under the old system, a copyright owner had to file a registration with the "
"Copyright Office to register or renew a copyright. When filing that "
"registration, the copyright owner paid a fee. As with most government "
"agencies, the Copyright Office had little incentive to minimize the burden "
"of registration; it also had little incentive to minimize the fee.  And as "
"the Copyright Office is not a main target of government policymaking, the "
"office has historically been terribly underfunded. Thus, when people who "
"know something about the process hear this idea about formalities, their "
"first reaction is panic&mdash;nothing could be worse than forcing people to "
"deal with the mess that is the Copyright Office."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13820
msgid ""
"Yet it is always astonishing to me that we, who come from a tradition of "
"extraordinary innovation in governmental design, can no longer think "
"innovatively about how governmental functions can be designed.  Just because "
"there is a public purpose to a government role, it doesn't follow that the "
"government must actually administer the role. Instead, we should be creating "
"incentives for private parties to serve the public, subject to standards "
"that the government sets."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13829
msgid ""
"In the context of registration, one obvious model is the Internet.  There "
"are at least 32 million Web sites registered around the world.  Domain name "
"owners for these Web sites have to pay a fee to keep their registration "
"alive. In the main top-level domains (.com, .org, .net), there is a central "
"registry. The actual registrations are, however, performed by many competing "
"registrars. That competition drives the cost of registering down, and more "
"importantly, it drives the ease with which registration occurs up."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 295 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13839
msgid ""
"We should adopt a similar model for the registration and renewal of "
"copyrights. The Copyright Office may well serve as the central registry, but "
"it should not be in the registrar business. Instead, it should establish a "
"database, and a set of standards for registrars. It should approve "
"registrars that meet its standards. Those registrars would then compete with "
"one another to deliver the cheapest and simplest systems for registering and "
"renewing copyrights. That competition would substantially lower the burden "
"of this formality&mdash;while producing a database of registrations that "
"would facilitate the licensing of content."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:13854
msgid "MARKING"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13856
msgid ""
"It used to be that the failure to include a copyright notice on a creative "
"work meant that the copyright was forfeited. That was a harsh punishment for "
"failing to comply with a regulatory rule&mdash;akin to imposing the death "
"penalty for a parking ticket in the world of creative rights.  Here again, "
"there is no reason that a marking requirement needs to be enforced in this "
"way. And more importantly, there is no reason a marking requirement needs to "
"be enforced uniformly across all media."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13866
msgid ""
"The aim of marking is to signal to the public that this work is copyrighted "
"and that the author wants to enforce his rights. The mark also makes it easy "
"to locate a copyright owner to secure permission to use the work."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13872
msgid ""
"One of the problems the copyright system confronted early on was that "
"different copyrighted works had to be differently marked. It wasn't clear "
"how or where a statue was to be marked, or a record, or a film. A new "
"marking requirement could solve these problems by recognizing the "
"differences in media, and by allowing the system of marking to evolve as "
"technologies enable it to. The system could enable a special signal from the "
"failure to mark&mdash;not the loss of the copyright, but the loss of the "
"right to punish someone for failing to get permission first."
msgstr ""

#.  f2. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13889
msgid ""
"There would be a complication with derivative works that I have not solved "
"here. In my view, the law of derivatives creates a more complicated system "
"than is justified by the marginal incentive it creates."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 296 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13882
msgid ""
"Let's start with the last point. If a copyright owner allows his work to be "
"published without a copyright notice, the consequence of that failure need "
"not be that the copyright is lost. The consequence could instead be that "
"anyone has the right to use this work, until the copyright owner complains "
"and demonstrates that it is his work and he doesn't give "
"permission.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> The meaning of an "
"unmarked work would therefore be <quote>use unless someone "
"complains.</quote> If someone does complain, then the obligation would be to "
"stop using the work in any new work from then on though no penalty would "
"attach for existing uses.  This would create a strong incentive for "
"copyright owners to mark their work."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13902
msgid ""
"That in turn raises the question about how work should best be marked. Here "
"again, the system needs to adjust as the technologies evolve. The best way "
"to ensure that the system evolves is to limit the Copyright Office's role to "
"that of approving standards for marking content that have been crafted "
"elsewhere."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13909
msgid ""
"For example, if a recording industry association devises a method for "
"marking CDs, it would propose that to the Copyright Office. The Copyright "
"Office would hold a hearing, at which other proposals could be made. The "
"Copyright Office would then select the proposal that it judged preferable, "
"and it would base that choice <emphasis>solely</emphasis> upon the "
"consideration of which method could best be integrated into the registration "
"and renewal system. We would not count on the government to innovate; but we "
"would count on the government to keep the product of innovation in line with "
"its other important functions."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13921
msgid ""
"Finally, marking content clearly would simplify registration requirements.  "
"If photographs were marked by author and year, there would be little reason "
"not to allow a photographer to reregister, for example, all photographs "
"taken in a particular year in one quick step. The aim of the formality is "
"not to burden the creator; the system itself should be kept as simple as "
"possible."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13929
msgid ""
"The objective of formalities is to make things clear. The existing system "
"does nothing to make things clear. Indeed, it seems designed to make things "
"unclear."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13934
msgid ""
"If formalities such as registration were reinstated, one of the most "
"difficult aspects of relying upon the public domain would be removed.  It "
"would be simple to identify what content is presumptively free; it would be "
"simple to identify who controls the rights for a particular kind of content; "
"it would be simple to assert those rights, and to renew that assertion at "
"the appropriate time."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:13946
msgid "2. Shorter Terms"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13948
msgid ""
"The term of copyright has gone from fourteen years to ninety-five years for "
"corporate authors, and life of the author plus seventy years for natural "
"authors."
msgstr ""

#.  f3. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13961
msgid ""
"<quote>A Radical Rethink,</quote> <citetitle>Economist</citetitle>, 366:8308 "
"(25 January 2003): 15, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #74</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13953
msgid ""
"In <citetitle>The Future of Ideas</citetitle>, I proposed a "
"seventy-five-year term, granted in five-year increments with a requirement "
"of renewal every five years.  That seemed radical enough at the time. But "
"after we lost <citetitle>Eldred</citetitle> "
"v. <citetitle>Ashcroft</citetitle>, the proposals became even more "
"radical. <citetitle>The Economist</citetitle> endorsed a proposal for a "
"fourteen-year copyright term.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
"Others have proposed tying the term to the term for patents."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13968
msgid ""
"I agree with those who believe that we need a radical change in copyright's "
"term. But whether fourteen years or seventy-five, there are four principles "
"that are important to keep in mind about copyright terms."
msgstr ""

#.  (1) 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13976
msgid ""
"<emphasis>Keep it short:</emphasis> The term should be as long as necessary "
"to give incentives to create, but no longer. If it were tied to very strong "
"protections for authors (so authors were able to reclaim rights from "
"publishers), rights to the same work (not derivative works) might be "
"extended further. The key is not to tie the work up with legal regulations "
"when it no longer benefits an author."
msgstr ""

#.  (2) 
#.  PAGE BREAK 298 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13985
msgid ""
"<emphasis>Keep it simple:</emphasis> The line between the public domain and "
"protected content must be kept clear. Lawyers like the fuzziness of "
"<quote>fair use,</quote> and the distinction between <quote>ideas</quote> "
"and <quote>expression.</quote> That kind of law gives them lots of work. But "
"our framers had a simpler idea in mind: protected versus unprotected.  The "
"value of short terms is that there is little need to build exceptions into "
"copyright when the term itself is kept short. A clear and active "
"<quote>lawyer-free zone</quote> makes the complexities of <quote>fair "
"use</quote> and <quote>idea/expression</quote> less necessary to navigate."
msgstr ""

#.  f4. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><orderedlist><listitem><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14006
msgid ""
"Department of Veterans Affairs, Veteran's Application for Compensation "
"and/or Pension, VA Form 21-526 (OMB Approved No. 2900-0001), available at "
"<ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #75</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><orderedlist><listitem><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:14014
msgid "veterans' pensions"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:13998
msgid ""
"<emphasis>Keep it alive:</emphasis> Copyright should have to be renewed.  "
"Especially if the maximum term is long, the copyright owner should be "
"required to signal periodically that he wants the protection continued. This "
"need not be an onerous burden, but there is no reason this monopoly "
"protection has to be granted for free. On average, it takes ninety minutes "
"for a veteran to apply for a pension.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"0\"/> If we make veterans suffer that burden, I don't see why we "
"couldn't require authors to spend ten minutes every fifty years to file a "
"single form.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  (4) 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14018
msgid ""
"<emphasis>Keep it prospective:</emphasis> Whatever the term of copyright "
"should be, the clearest lesson that economists teach is that a term once "
"given should not be extended. It might have been a mistake in 1923 for the "
"law to offer authors only a fifty-six-year term. I don't think so, but it's "
"possible. If it was a mistake, then the consequence was that we got fewer "
"authors to create in 1923 than we otherwise would have. But we can't correct "
"that mistake today by increasing the term. No matter what we do today, we "
"will not increase the number of authors who wrote in 1923. Of course, we can "
"increase the reward that those who write now get (or alternatively, increase "
"the copyright burden that smothers many works that are today invisible). But "
"increasing their reward will not increase their creativity in 1923.  What's "
"not done is not done, and there's nothing we can do about that now."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14034
msgid ""
"These changes together should produce an <emphasis>average</emphasis> "
"copyright term that is much shorter than the current term. Until 1976, the "
"average term was just 32.2 years. We should be aiming for the same."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14040
msgid ""
"No doubt the extremists will call these ideas <quote>radical.</quote> (After "
"all, I call them <quote>extremists.</quote>) But again, the term I "
"recommended was longer than the term under Richard Nixon. How "
"<quote>radical</quote> can it be to ask for a more generous copyright law "
"than Richard Nixon presided over?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:14050
msgid "3. Free Use Vs. Fair Use"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14057
msgid ""
"As I observed at the beginning of this book, property law originally granted "
"property owners the right to control their property from the ground to the "
"heavens. The airplane came along. The scope of property rights quickly "
"changed. There was no fuss, no constitutional challenge.  It made no sense "
"anymore to grant that much control, given the emergence of that new "
"technology."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14065
msgid ""
"Our Constitution gives Congress the power to give authors <quote>exclusive "
"right</quote> to <quote>their writings.</quote> Congress has given authors "
"an exclusive right to <quote>their writings</quote> plus any derivative "
"writings (made by others) that are sufficiently close to the author's "
"original work. Thus, if I write a book, and you base a movie on that book, I "
"have the power to deny you the right to release that movie, even though that "
"movie is not <quote>my writing.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#.  f5. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14078
msgid ""
"Benjamin Kaplan, <citetitle>An Unhurried View of Copyright</citetitle> (New "
"York: Columbia University Press, 1967), 32."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:14084
msgid "Kaplan, Benjamin"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14074
msgid ""
"Congress granted the beginnings of this right in 1870, when it expanded the "
"exclusive right of copyright to include a right to control translations and "
"dramatizations of a work.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> The "
"courts have expanded it slowly through judicial interpretation ever "
"since. This expansion has been commented upon by one of the law's greatest "
"judges, Judge Benjamin Kaplan.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  f6. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14092
msgid "Ibid., 56."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><blockquote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14088
msgid ""
"So inured have we become to the extension of the monopoly to a large range "
"of so-called derivative works, that we no longer sense the oddity of "
"accepting such an enlargement of copyright while yet intoning the "
"abracadabra of idea and expression.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14097
msgid ""
"I think it's time to recognize that there are airplanes in this field and "
"the expansiveness of these rights of derivative use no longer make "
"sense. More precisely, they don't make sense for the period of time that a "
"copyright runs. And they don't make sense as an amorphous grant.  Consider "
"each limitation in turn."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14104
msgid ""
"<emphasis>Term:</emphasis> If Congress wants to grant a derivative right, "
"then that right should be for a much shorter term. It makes sense to protect "
"John Grisham's right to sell the movie rights to his latest novel (or at "
"least I'm willing to assume it does); but it does not make sense for that "
"right to run for the same term as the underlying copyright. The derivative "
"right could be important in inducing creativity; it is not important long "
"after the creative work is done.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14117
msgid ""
"<emphasis>Scope:</emphasis> Likewise should the scope of derivative rights "
"be narrowed.  Again, there are some cases in which derivative rights are "
"important.  Those should be specified. But the law should draw clear lines "
"around regulated and unregulated uses of copyrighted material. When all "
"<quote>reuse</quote> of creative material was within the control of "
"businesses, perhaps it made sense to require lawyers to negotiate the "
"lines. It no longer makes sense for lawyers to negotiate the lines. Think "
"about all the creative possibilities that digital technologies enable; now "
"imagine pouring molasses into the machines. That's what this general "
"requirement of permission does to the creative process. Smothers it."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14131
msgid ""
"This was the point that Alben made when describing the making of the Clint "
"Eastwood CD. While it makes sense to require negotiation for foreseeable "
"derivative rights&mdash;turning a book into a movie, or a poem into a "
"musical score&mdash;it doesn't make sense to require negotiation for the "
"unforeseeable. Here, a statutory right would make much more sense."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:14147
msgid "Goldstein, Paul"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14145
msgid ""
"Paul Goldstein, <citetitle>Copyright's Highway: From Gutenberg to the "
"Celestial Jukebox</citetitle> (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003), "
"187&ndash;216.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14139
msgid ""
"In each of these cases, the law should mark the uses that are protected, and "
"the presumption should be that other uses are not protected.  This is the "
"reverse of the recommendation of my colleague Paul Goldstein.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> His view is that the law should be written so "
"that expanded protections follow expanded uses."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14153
msgid ""
"Goldstein's analysis would make perfect sense if the cost of the legal "
"system were small. But as we are currently seeing in the context of the "
"Internet, the uncertainty about the scope of protection, and the incentives "
"to protect existing architectures of revenue, combined with a strong "
"copyright, weaken the process of innovation."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 301 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14160
msgid ""
"The law could remedy this problem either by removing protection beyond the "
"part explicitly drawn or by granting reuse rights upon certain statutory "
"conditions. Either way, the effect would be to free a great deal of culture "
"to others to cultivate. And under a statutory rights regime, that reuse "
"would earn artists more income."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:14170
msgid "4. Liberate the Music&mdash;Again"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14172
msgid ""
"The battle that got this whole war going was about music, so it wouldn't be "
"fair to end this book without addressing the issue that is, to most people, "
"most pressing&mdash;music. There is no other policy issue that better "
"teaches the lessons of this book than the battles around the sharing of "
"music."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14179
msgid ""
"The appeal of file-sharing music was the crack cocaine of the Internet's "
"growth. It drove demand for access to the Internet more powerfully than any "
"other single application. It was the Internet's killer app&mdash;possibly in "
"two senses of that word. It no doubt was the application that drove demand "
"for bandwidth. It may well be the application that drives demand for "
"regulations that in the end kill innovation on the network."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14188
msgid ""
"The aim of copyright, with respect to content in general and music in "
"particular, is to create the incentives for music to be composed, performed, "
"and, most importantly, spread. The law does this by giving an exclusive "
"right to a composer to control public performances of his work, and to a "
"performing artist to control copies of her performance."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14195
msgid ""
"File-sharing networks complicate this model by enabling the spread of "
"content for which the performer has not been paid. But of course, that's not "
"all the file-sharing networks do. As I described in chapter <xref "
"xrefstyle=\"select: labelnumber\" linkend=\"piracy\"/>, they enable four "
"different kinds of sharing:"
msgstr ""

#.  A. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14204
msgid ""
"There are some who are using sharing networks as substitutes for purchasing "
"CDs."
msgstr ""

#.  B. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14209
msgid ""
"There are also some who are using sharing networks to sample, on the way to "
"purchasing CDs."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 302 
#.  C. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14215
msgid ""
"There are many who are using file-sharing networks to get access to content "
"that is no longer sold but is still under copyright or that would have been "
"too cumbersome to buy off the Net."
msgstr ""

#.  D. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14221
msgid ""
"There are many who are using file-sharing networks to get access to content "
"that is not copyrighted or to get access that the copyright owner plainly "
"endorses."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14227
msgid ""
"Any reform of the law needs to keep these different uses in focus. It must "
"avoid burdening type D even if it aims to eliminate type A. The eagerness "
"with which the law aims to eliminate type A, moreover, should depend upon "
"the magnitude of type B. As with VCRs, if the net effect of sharing is "
"actually not very harmful, the need for regulation is significantly "
"weakened."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14235
msgid ""
"As I said in chapter <xref xrefstyle=\"select: labelnumber\" "
"linkend=\"piracy\"/>, the actual harm caused by sharing is controversial.  "
"For the purposes of this chapter, however, I assume the harm is real. I "
"assume, in other words, that type A sharing is significantly greater than "
"type B, and is the dominant use of sharing networks."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14243
msgid ""
"Nonetheless, there is a crucial fact about the current technological context "
"that we must keep in mind if we are to understand how the law should "
"respond."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14248
msgid ""
"Today, file sharing is addictive. In ten years, it won't be. It is addictive "
"today because it is the easiest way to gain access to a broad range of "
"content.  It won't be the easiest way to get access to a broad range of "
"content in ten years. Today, access to the Internet is cumbersome and "
"slow&mdash;we in the United States are lucky to have broadband service at "
"1.5 MBs, and very rarely do we get service at that speed both up and "
"down. Although wireless access is growing, most of us still get access "
"across wires. Most only gain access through a machine with a keyboard. The "
"idea of the always on, always connected Internet is mainly just an idea."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 303 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14260
msgid ""
"But it will become a reality, and that means the way we get access to the "
"Internet today is a technology in transition. Policy makers should not make "
"policy on the basis of technology in transition. They should make policy on "
"the basis of where the technology is going. The question should not be, how "
"should the law regulate sharing in this world? The question should be, what "
"law will we require when the network becomes the network it is clearly "
"becoming? That network is one in which every machine with electricity is "
"essentially on the Net; where everywhere you are&mdash;except maybe the "
"desert or the Rockies&mdash;you can instantaneously be connected to the "
"Internet. Imagine the Internet as ubiquitous as the best cell-phone service, "
"where with the flip of a device, you are connected."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:14274
msgid "cell phones, music streamed over"
msgstr ""

#.  f8. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14294
msgid ""
"See, for example, <quote>Music Media Watch,</quote> The J@pan "
"Inc. Newsletter, 3 April 2002, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #76</ulink>."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14276
msgid ""
"In that world, it will be extremely easy to connect to services that give "
"you access to content on the fly&mdash;such as Internet radio, content that "
"is streamed to the user when the user demands. Here, then, is the critical "
"point: When it is <emphasis>extremely</emphasis> easy to connect to services "
"that give access to content, it will be <emphasis>easier</emphasis> to "
"connect to services that give you access to content than it will be to "
"download and store content <emphasis>on the many devices you will have for "
"playing content</emphasis>. It will be easier, in other words, to subscribe "
"than it will be to be a database manager, as everyone in the "
"download-sharing world of Napster-like technologies essentially is. Content "
"services will compete with content sharing, even if the services charge "
"money for the content they give access to. Already cell-phone services in "
"Japan offer music (for a fee) streamed over cell phones (enhanced with plugs "
"for headphones). The Japanese are paying for this content even though "
"<quote>free</quote> content is available in the form of MP3s across the "
"Web.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 304 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14301
msgid ""
"This point about the future is meant to suggest a perspective on the "
"present: It is emphatically temporary. The <quote>problem</quote> with file "
"sharing&mdash;to the extent there is a real problem&mdash;is a problem that "
"will increasingly disappear as it becomes easier to connect to the "
"Internet.  And thus it is an extraordinary mistake for policy makers today "
"to be <quote>solving</quote> this problem in light of a technology that will "
"be gone tomorrow.  The question should not be how to regulate the Internet "
"to eliminate file sharing (the Net will evolve that problem away). The "
"question instead should be how to assure that artists get paid, during this "
"transition between twentieth-century models for doing business and "
"twenty-first-century technologies."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14317
msgid ""
"The answer begins with recognizing that there are different "
"<quote>problems</quote> here to solve. Let's start with type D "
"content&mdash;uncopyrighted content or copyrighted content that the artist "
"wants shared. The <quote>problem</quote> with this content is to make sure "
"that the technology that would enable this kind of sharing is not rendered "
"illegal. You can think of it this way: Pay phones are used to deliver ransom "
"demands, no doubt.  But there are many who need to use pay phones who have "
"nothing to do with ransoms. It would be wrong to ban pay phones in order to "
"eliminate kidnapping."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14328
msgid ""
"Type C content raises a different <quote>problem.</quote> This is content "
"that was, at one time, published and is no longer available. It may be "
"unavailable because the artist is no longer valuable enough for the record "
"label he signed with to carry his work. Or it may be unavailable because the "
"work is forgotten. Either way, the aim of the law should be to facilitate "
"the access to this content, ideally in a way that returns something to the "
"artist."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14337
msgid ""
"Again, the model here is the used book store. Once a book goes out of print, "
"it may still be available in libraries and used book stores. But libraries "
"and used book stores don't pay the copyright owner when someone reads or "
"buys an out-of-print book. That makes total sense, of course, since any "
"other system would be so burdensome as to eliminate the possibility of used "
"book stores' existing. But from the author's perspective, this "
"<quote>sharing</quote> of his content without his being compensated is less "
"than ideal."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14347
msgid ""
"The model of used book stores suggests that the law could simply deem "
"out-of-print music fair game. If the publisher does not make copies of the "
"music available for sale, then commercial and noncommercial providers would "
"be free, under this rule, to <quote>share</quote> that content, even though "
"the sharing involved making a copy. The copy here would be incidental to the "
"trade; in a context where commercial publishing has ended, trading music "
"should be as free as trading books."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 305 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14358
msgid ""
"Alternatively, the law could create a statutory license that would ensure "
"that artists get something from the trade of their work. For example, if the "
"law set a low statutory rate for the commercial sharing of content that was "
"not offered for sale by a commercial publisher, and if that rate were "
"automatically transferred to a trust for the benefit of the artist, then "
"businesses could develop around the idea of trading this content, and "
"artists would benefit from this trade."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14368
msgid ""
"This system would also create an incentive for publishers to keep works "
"available commercially. Works that are available commercially would not be "
"subject to this license. Thus, publishers could protect the right to charge "
"whatever they want for content if they kept the work commercially "
"available. But if they don't keep it available, and instead, the computer "
"hard disks of fans around the world keep it alive, then any royalty owed for "
"such copying should be much less than the amount owed a commercial "
"publisher."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14378
msgid ""
"The hard case is content of types A and B, and again, this case is hard only "
"because the extent of the problem will change over time, as the technologies "
"for gaining access to content change. The law's solution should be as "
"flexible as the problem is, understanding that we are in the middle of a "
"radical transformation in the technology for delivering and accessing "
"content."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14386
msgid ""
"So here's a solution that will at first seem very strange to both sides in "
"this war, but which upon reflection, I suggest, should make some sense."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14390
msgid ""
"Stripped of the rhetoric about the sanctity of property, the basic claim of "
"the content industry is this: A new technology (the Internet)  has harmed a "
"set of rights that secure copyright. If those rights are to be protected, "
"then the content industry should be compensated for that harm. Just as the "
"technology of tobacco harmed the health of millions of Americans, or the "
"technology of asbestos caused grave illness to thousands of miners, so, too, "
"has the technology of digital networks harmed the interests of the content "
"industry."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 306 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14401
msgid ""
"I love the Internet, and so I don't like likening it to tobacco or "
"asbestos.  But the analogy is a fair one from the perspective of the law.  "
"And it suggests a fair response: Rather than seeking to destroy the "
"Internet, or the p2p technologies that are currently harming content "
"providers on the Internet, we should find a relatively simple way to "
"compensate those who are harmed."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:14450
msgid "Fisher, William"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><indexterm><primary>
#: freeculture.xml:14452 freeculture.xml:14479
msgid "Promises to Keep (Fisher)"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14413
msgid ""
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> William Fisher, "
"<citetitle>Digital Music: Problems and Possibilities</citetitle> (last "
"revised: 10 October 2000), available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #77</ulink>; William Fisher, "
"<citetitle>Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of "
"Entertainment</citetitle> (forthcoming) (Stanford: Stanford University "
"Press, 2004), ch. 6, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #78</ulink>. Professor Netanel "
"has proposed a related idea that would exempt noncommercial sharing from the "
"reach of copyright and would establish compensation to artists to balance "
"any loss. See Neil Weinstock Netanel, <quote>Impose a Noncommercial Use Levy "
"to Allow Free P2P File Sharing,</quote> available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #79</ulink>. For other proposals, "
"see Lawrence Lessig, <quote>Who's Holding Back Broadband?</quote> "
"<citetitle>Washington Post</citetitle>, 8 January 2002, A17; Philip "
"S. Corwin on behalf of Sharman Networks, A Letter to Senator Joseph "
"R. Biden, Jr., Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 26 "
"February 2002, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #80</ulink>; Serguei Osokine, "
"<citetitle>A Quick Case for Intellectual Property Use Fee "
"(IPUF)</citetitle>, 3 March 2002, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #81</ulink>; Jefferson Graham, "
"<quote>Kazaa, Verizon Propose to Pay Artists Directly,</quote> "
"<citetitle>USA Today</citetitle>, 13 May 2002, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #82</ulink>; Steven M. Cherry, "
"<quote>Getting Copyright Right,</quote> IEEE Spectrum Online, 1 July 2002, "
"available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #83</ulink>; "
"Declan McCullagh, <quote>Verizon's Copyright Campaign,</quote> CNET "
"News.com, 27 August 2002, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #84</ulink>.  Fisher's proposal "
"is very similar to Richard Stallman's proposal for DAT. Unlike Fisher's, "
"Stallman's proposal would not pay artists directly proportionally, though "
"more popular artists would get more than the less popular. As is typical "
"with Stallman, his proposal predates the current debate by about a "
"decade. See <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #85</ulink>.  "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"2\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"3\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14409
msgid ""
"The idea would be a modification of a proposal that has been floated by "
"Harvard law professor William Fisher.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
"id=\"0\"/> Fisher suggests a very clever way around the current impasse of "
"the Internet. Under his plan, all content capable of digital transmission "
"would (1) be marked with a digital watermark (don't worry about how easy it "
"is to evade these marks; as you'll see, there's no incentive to evade "
"them). Once the content is marked, then entrepreneurs would develop (2) "
"systems to monitor how many items of each content were distributed. On the "
"basis of those numbers, then (3) artists would be compensated. The "
"compensation would be paid for by (4) an appropriate tax."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14466
msgid ""
"Fisher's proposal is careful and comprehensive. It raises a million "
"questions, most of which he answers well in his upcoming book, "
"<citetitle>Promises to Keep</citetitle>. The modification that I would make "
"is relatively simple: Fisher imagines his proposal replacing the existing "
"copyright system.  I imagine it complementing the existing system. The aim "
"of the proposal would be to facilitate compensation to the extent that harm "
"could be shown. This compensation would be temporary, aimed at facilitating "
"a transition between regimes. And it would require renewal after a period of "
"years. If it continues to make sense to facilitate free exchange of content, "
"supported through a taxation system, then it can be continued. If this form "
"of protection is no longer necessary, then the system could lapse into the "
"old system of controlling access.  <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
"id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 307 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14486
msgid ""
"Fisher would balk at the idea of allowing the system to lapse. His aim is "
"not just to ensure that artists are paid, but also to ensure that the system "
"supports the widest range of <quote>semiotic democracy</quote> possible. But "
"the aims of semiotic democracy would be satisfied if the other changes I "
"described were accomplished&mdash;in particular, the limits on derivative "
"uses. A system that simply charges for access would not greatly burden "
"semiotic democracy if there were few limitations on what one was allowed to "
"do with the content itself."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14500
msgid ""
"No doubt it would be difficult to calculate the proper measure of "
"<quote>harm</quote> to an industry. But the difficulty of making that "
"calculation would be outweighed by the benefit of facilitating "
"innovation. This background system to compensate would also not need to "
"interfere with innovative proposals such as Apple's MusicStore. As experts "
"predicted when Apple launched the MusicStore, it could beat "
"<quote>free</quote> by being easier than free is. This has proven correct: "
"Apple has sold millions of songs at even the very high price of 99 cents a "
"song. (At 99 cents, the cost is the equivalent of a per-song CD price, "
"though the labels have none of the costs of a CD to pay.) Apple's move was "
"countered by Real Networks, offering music at just 79 cents a song. And no "
"doubt there will be a great deal of competition to offer and sell music "
"on-line."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14516
msgid ""
"This competition has already occurred against the background of "
"<quote>free</quote> music from p2p systems. As the sellers of cable "
"television have known for thirty years, and the sellers of bottled water for "
"much more than that, there is nothing impossible at all about "
"<quote>competing with free.</quote> Indeed, if anything, the competition "
"spurs the competitors to offer new and better products. This is precisely "
"what the competitive market was to be about. Thus in Singapore, though "
"piracy is rampant, movie theaters are often luxurious&mdash;with "
"<quote>first class</quote> seats, and meals served while you watch a "
"movie&mdash;as they struggle and succeed in finding ways to compete with "
"<quote>free.</quote>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14528
msgid ""
"This regime of competition, with a backstop to assure that artists don't "
"lose, would facilitate a great deal of innovation in the delivery of "
"content. That competition would continue to shrink type A sharing. It would "
"inspire an extraordinary range of new innovators&mdash;ones who would have a "
"right to the content, and would no longer fear the uncertain and "
"barbarically severe punishments of the law."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14537
msgid "In summary, then, my proposal is this:"
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 308 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14542
msgid ""
"The Internet is in transition. We should not be regulating a technology in "
"transition. We should instead be regulating to minimize the harm to "
"interests affected by this technological change, while enabling, and "
"encouraging, the most efficient technology we can create."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14549
msgid "We can minimize that harm while maximizing the benefit to innovation by"
msgstr ""

#.  1. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14555
msgid "guaranteeing the right to engage in type D sharing;"
msgstr ""

#.  2. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14559
msgid ""
"permitting noncommercial type C sharing without liability, and commercial "
"type C sharing at a low and fixed rate set by statute;"
msgstr ""

#.  3. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><orderedlist><listitem><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14565
msgid ""
"while in this transition, taxing and compensating for type A sharing, to the "
"extent actual harm is demonstrated."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14570
msgid ""
"But what if <quote>piracy</quote> doesn't disappear? What if there is a "
"competitive market providing content at a low cost, but a significant number "
"of consumers continue to <quote>take</quote> content for nothing? Should the "
"law do something then?"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14576
msgid ""
"Yes, it should. But, again, what it should do depends upon how the facts "
"develop. These changes may not eliminate type A sharing. But the real issue "
"is not whether it eliminates sharing in the abstract.  The real issue is its "
"effect on the market. Is it better (a) to have a technology that is 95 "
"percent secure and produces a market of size <citetitle>x</citetitle>, or "
"(b) to have a technology that is 50 percent secure but produces a market of "
"five times <citetitle>x</citetitle>? Less secure might produce more "
"unauthorized sharing, but it is likely to also produce a much bigger market "
"in authorized sharing. The most important thing is to assure artists' "
"compensation without breaking the Internet. Once that's assured, then it may "
"well be appropriate to find ways to track down the petty pirates."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 309 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14590
msgid ""
"But we're a long way away from whittling the problem down to this subset of "
"type A sharers. And our focus until we're there should not be on finding "
"ways to break the Internet. Our focus until we're there should be on how to "
"make sure the artists are paid, while protecting the space for innovation "
"and creativity that the Internet is."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><title>
#: freeculture.xml:14601
msgid "5. Fire Lots of Lawyers"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14603
msgid ""
"I'm a lawyer. I make lawyers for a living. I believe in the law. I believe "
"in the law of copyright. Indeed, I have devoted my life to working in law, "
"not because there are big bucks at the end but because there are ideals at "
"the end that I would love to live."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14609
msgid ""
"Yet much of this book has been a criticism of lawyers, or the role lawyers "
"have played in this debate. The law speaks to ideals, but it is my view that "
"our profession has become too attuned to the client. And in a world where "
"the rich clients have one strong view, the unwillingness of the profession "
"to question or counter that one strong view queers the law."
msgstr ""

#.  f10. 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14626
msgid ""
"Lawrence Lessig, <quote>Copyright's First Amendment</quote> (Melville "
"B. Nimmer Memorial Lecture), <citetitle>UCLA Law Review</citetitle> 48 "
"(2001): 1057, 1069&ndash;70."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14617
msgid ""
"The evidence of this bending is compelling. I'm attacked as a "
"<quote>radical</quote> by many within the profession, yet the positions that "
"I am advocating are precisely the positions of some of the most moderate and "
"significant figures in the history of this branch of the law. Many, for "
"example, thought crazy the challenge that we brought to the Copyright Term "
"Extension Act. Yet just thirty years ago, the dominant scholar and "
"practitioner in the field of copyright, Melville Nimmer, thought it "
"obvious.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14632
msgid ""
"However, my criticism of the role that lawyers have played in this debate is "
"not just about a professional bias. It is more importantly about our failure "
"to actually reckon the costs of the law."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para><footnote><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14642
msgid ""
"A good example is the work of Professor Stan Liebowitz. Liebowitz is to be "
"commended for his careful review of data about infringement, leading him to "
"question his own publicly stated position&mdash;twice. He initially "
"predicted that downloading would substantially harm the industry. He then "
"revised his view in light of the data, and he has since revised his view "
"again.  Compare Stan J. Liebowitz, <citetitle>Rethinking the Network "
"Economy: The True Forces That Drive the Digital Marketplace</citetitle> (New "
"York: Amacom, 2002), (reviewing his original view but expressing skepticism) "
"with Stan J.  Liebowitz, <quote>Will MP3s Annihilate the Record "
"Industry?</quote> working paper, June 2003, available at <ulink "
"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #86</ulink>.  Liebowitz's careful "
"analysis is extremely valuable in estimating the effect of file-sharing "
"technology. In my view, however, he underestimates the costs of the legal "
"system. See, for example, <citetitle>Rethinking</citetitle>, 174&ndash;76.  "
"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14637
msgid ""
"Economists are supposed to be good at reckoning costs and benefits.  But "
"more often than not, economists, with no clue about how the legal system "
"actually functions, simply assume that the transaction costs of the legal "
"system are slight.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> They see a "
"system that has been around for hundreds of years, and they assume it works "
"the way their elementary school civics class taught them it works."
msgstr ""

#.  PAGE BREAK 310 
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14666
msgid ""
"But the legal system doesn't work. Or more accurately, it doesn't work for "
"anyone except those with the most resources. Not because the system is "
"corrupt. I don't think our legal system (at the federal level, at least) is "
"at all corrupt. I mean simply because the costs of our legal system are so "
"astonishingly high that justice can practically never be done."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14674
msgid ""
"These costs distort free culture in many ways. A lawyer's time is billed at "
"the largest firms at more than $400 per hour. How much time should such a "
"lawyer spend reading cases carefully, or researching obscure strands of "
"authority? The answer is the increasing reality: very little.  The law "
"depended upon the careful articulation and development of doctrine, but the "
"careful articulation and development of legal doctrine depends upon careful "
"work. Yet that careful work costs too much, except in the most high-profile "
"and costly cases."
msgstr ""

#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
#: freeculture.xml:14684
msgid ""
"The costliness and clumsiness and randomness of this system mock our "
"tradition. And lawyers, as well as academics, should consider it their duty "
"to change the way the law works&mdash;or better, to change the law so that "
"it works. It is wrong that the system works well only for the top 1 percent "
"of the clients. It could be made radically more efficient, and inexpensive, "
"and hence radically more just."
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"But until that reform is complete, we as a society should keep the law away "
"from areas that we know it will only harm. And that is precisely what the "
"law will too often do if too much of our culture is left to its review."
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"Think about the amazing things your kid could do or make with digital "
"technology&mdash;the film, the music, the Web page, the blog. Or think about "
"the amazing things your community could facilitate with digital "
"technology&mdash;a wiki, a barn raising, activism to change something.  "
"Think about all those creative things, and then imagine cold molasses poured "
"onto the machines. This is what any regime that requires permission "
"produces. Again, this is the reality of Brezhnev's Russia."
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"The law should regulate in certain areas of culture&mdash;but it should "
"regulate culture only where that regulation does good. Yet lawyers rarely "
"test their power, or the power they promote, against this simple pragmatic "
"question: <quote>Will it do good?</quote> When challenged about the "
"expanding reach of the law, the lawyer answers, <quote>Why not?</quote>"
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"We should ask, <quote>Why?</quote> Show me why your regulation of culture is "
"needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your "
"lawyers away."
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"Throughout this text, there are references to links on the World Wide "
"Web. As anyone who has tried to use the Web knows, these links can be highly "
"unstable. I have tried to remedy the instability by redirecting readers to "
"the original source through the Web site associated with this book. For each "
"link below, you can go to http://free-culture.cc/notes and locate the "
"original source by clicking on the number after the # sign. If the original "
"link remains alive, you will be redirected to that link. If the original "
"link has disappeared, you will be redirected to an appropriate reference for "
"the material."
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"This book is the product of a long and as yet unsuccessful struggle that "
"began when I read of Eric Eldred's war to keep books free. Eldred's work "
"helped launch a movement, the free culture movement, and it is to him that "
"this book is dedicated."
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"I received guidance in various places from friends and academics, including "
"Glenn Brown, Peter DiCola, Jennifer Mnookin, Richard Posner, Mark Rose, and "
"Kathleen Sullivan. And I received correction and guidance from many amazing "
"students at Stanford Law School and Stanford University. They included "
"Andrew B. Coan, John Eden, James P. Fellers, Christopher Guzelian, Erica "
"Goldberg, Robert Hallman, Andrew Harris, Matthew Kahn, Brian Link, Ohad "
"Mayblum, Alina Ng, and Erica Platt. I am particularly grateful to Catherine "
"Crump and Harry Surden, who helped direct their research, and to Laura "
"Lynch, who brilliantly managed the army that they assembled, and provided "
"her own critical eye on much of this."
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"Yuko Noguchi helped me to understand the laws of Japan as well as its "
"culture. I am thankful to her, and to the many in Japan who helped me "
"prepare this book: Joi Ito, Takayuki Matsutani, Naoto Misaki, Michihiro "
"Sasaki, Hiromichi Tanaka, Hiroo Yamagata, and Yoshihiro Yonezawa. I am "
"thankful as well as to Professor Nobuhiro Nakayama, and the Tokyo University "
"Business Law Center, for giving me the chance to spend time in Japan, and to "
"Tadashi Shiraishi and Kiyokazu Yamagami for their generous help while I was "
"there."
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"These are the traditional sorts of help that academics regularly draw "
"upon. But in addition to them, the Internet has made it possible to receive "
"advice and correction from many whom I have never even met. Among those who "
"have responded with extremely helpful advice to requests on my blog about "
"the book are Dr. Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, David Gerstein, and Peter DiMauro, as "
"well as a long list of those who had specific ideas about ways to develop my "
"argument. They included Richard Bondi, Steven Cherry, David Coe, Nik "
"Cubrilovic, Bob Devine, Charles Eicher, Thomas Guida, Elihu M. Gerson, "
"Jeremy Hunsinger, Vaughn Iverson, John Karabaic, Jeff Keltner, James "
"Lindenschmidt, K. L. Mann, Mark Manning, Nora McCauley, Jeffrey McHugh, Evan "
"McMullen, Fred Norton, John Pormann, Pedro A. D.  Rezende, Shabbir Safdar, "
"Saul Schleimer, Clay Shirky, Adam Shostack, Kragen Sitaker, Chris Smith, "
"Bruce Steinberg, Andrzej Jan Taramina, Sean Walsh, Matt Wasserman, Miljenko "
"Williams, <quote>Wink,</quote> Roger Wood, <quote>Ximmbo da Jazz,</quote> "
"and Richard Yanco. (I apologize if I have missed anyone; with computers come "
"glitches, and a crash of my e-mail system meant I lost a bunch of great "
"replies.)"
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"Richard Stallman and Michael Carroll each read the whole book in draft, and "
"each provided extremely helpful correction and advice.  Michael helped me to "
"see more clearly the significance of the regulation of derivitive works. And "
"Richard corrected an embarrassingly large number of errors. While my work is "
"in part inspired by Stallman's, he does not agree with me in important "
"places throughout this book."
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"Finally, and forever, I am thankful to Bettina, who has always insisted that "
"there would be unending happiness away from these battles, and who has "
"always been right. This slow learner is, as ever, grateful for her perpetual "
"patience and love."
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