culture of values that have been integral to our tradition from the start.
</para>
<indexterm><primary>Constitution, U.S.</primary><secondary>First Amendment to</secondary></indexterm>
-<indexterm><primary>Copyright law</primary><secondary>as protection of creators</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>copyright law</primary><secondary>as protection of creators</secondary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>First Amendment</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Netanel, Neil Weinstock</primary></indexterm>
<para>
<title><quote>PIRACY</quote></title>
<partintro>
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-<indexterm><primary>Copyright law</primary><secondary>English</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>copyright law</primary><secondary>English</secondary></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxmansfieldwilliammurraylord' class='startofrange'><primary>Mansfield, William Murray, Lord</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>music publishing</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>sheet music</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxcartoonfilms' class='startofrange'><primary>cartoon films</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxfilmsanimated' class='startofrange'><primary>films</primary><secondary>animated</secondary></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxsteamboatwillie' class='startofrange'><primary>Steamboat Willie</primary></indexterm>
-<indexterm id='idxmikeymouse' class='startofrange'><primary>Mikey Mouse</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxmickeymouse' class='startofrange'><primary>Mickey Mouse</primary></indexterm>
<para>
<emphasis role="strong">In 1928</emphasis>, 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>.
Mouse.
</para>
<indexterm startref='idxsteamboatwillie' class='endofrange'/>
-<indexterm startref='idxmikeymouse' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxmickeymouse' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm startref='idxkeatonbuster' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm startref='idxsteamboatbilljr' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm id='idxcreativitybytransformingpreviousworks' class='startofrange'><primary>creativity</primary><secondary>by transforming previous works</secondary></indexterm>
his culture. Rip, mix, and burn.
</para>
<indexterm startref='idxgrimmfairytales' class='endofrange'/>
-<indexterm startref="idxanimatedcartoons" class='endofrange'/>
<para>
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
<indexterm startref='idxderivativeworkspiracyvs' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm startref='idxpiracyderivativeworkvs' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm startref='idxcreativitybytransformingpreviousworks' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm id='idxcopyrightdurationof' class='startofrange'><primary>copyright</primary><secondary>duration of</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxpublicdomaindefined' class='startofrange'><primary>public domain</primary><secondary>defined</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxpublicdomaintraditionaltermforconversionto' class='startofrange'><primary>public domain</primary><secondary>traditional term for conversion to</secondary></indexterm>
<para> 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
anyone— whether connected or not, whether rich or not, whether
approved or not—to use and build upon.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxanimatedcartoons' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxfilmsanimated' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
This is the ways things always were—until quite recently. For most
of our history, the public domain was just over the horizon. From
content from before the Great Depression.
</para>
<indexterm startref='idxcartoonfilms' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxdisneyinc' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxcopyrightdurationof' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxpublicdomaindefined' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxpublicdomaintraditionaltermforconversionto' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm><primary>Disney, Walt</primary></indexterm>
<para>
<emphasis role="strong">Of course</emphasis>, 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.
</para>
+<indexterm id='idxcomicsjapanese' class='startofrange'><primary>comics, Japanese</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxderivativeworkspiracyvs2' class='startofrange'><primary>derivative works</primary><secondary>piracy vs.</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxjapanesecomics' class='startofrange'><primary>Japanese comics</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxmanga' class='startofrange'><primary>manga</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxpiracyderivativeworkvs2' class='startofrange'><primary>piracy</primary><secondary>derivative work vs.</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
Consider, for example, a form of creativity that seems strange to many
Americans but that is inescapable within Japanese culture: <citetitle>manga</citetitle>, or
from a Disney perspective is quite familiar.
</para>
<indexterm id='idxcreativitybytransformingpreviousworks2' class='startofrange'><primary>creativity</primary><secondary>by transforming previous works</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxdoujinshicomics' class='startofrange'><primary>doujinshi comics</primary></indexterm>
<para>
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
there are committees that review doujinshi for inclusion within shows
and reject any copycat comic that is merely a copy.
</para>
+<indexterm id='idxdisneywalt2' class='startofrange'><primary>Disney, Walt</primary></indexterm>
<para>
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
who control the commercial manga market to shut the doujinshi market
down. It flourishes, despite the competition and despite the law.
</para>
+<indexterm id='idxcopyrightlawjapanese' class='startofrange'><primary>copyright law</primary><secondary>Japanese</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Steamboat Bill, Jr.</primary></indexterm>
<para>
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
infringement of the original copyright to make a copy or a derivative
work without the original copyright owner's permission.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxdisneywalt2' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm id='idxwinickjudd' class='startofrange'><primary>Winick, Judd</primary></indexterm>
<para>
Yet this illegal market exists and indeed flourishes in Japan, and in
York: Perennial, 2000).
</para></footnote>
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxcopyrightlawjapanese' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm><primary>Superman comics</primary></indexterm>
<para>
American comics now are quite different, Winick explains, in part
do. <quote>As a creator, it's frustrating having to stick to some parameters
which are fifty years old.</quote>
</para>
-<indexterm startref="idxwinickjudd" class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxwinickjudd' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm id='idxcopyrightlawjapanese2' class='startofrange'><primary>copyright law</primary><secondary>Japanese</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>comics, Japanese</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxmehrasalil' class='startofrange'><primary>Mehra, Salil</primary></indexterm>
<para>
The norm in Japan mitigates this legal difficulty. Some say it is
precisely the benefit accruing to the Japanese manga market that
rights. This is essentially a prisoner's dilemma solved.</quote>
</para></footnote>
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxcomicsjapanese' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxjapanesecomics' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxmanga' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
The problem with this story, however, as Mehra plainly acknowledges,
is that the mechanism producing this laissez faire response is not
a more general pattern of blocking this <quote>free taking</quote> by the doujinshi
culture?
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxcopyrightlawjapanese2' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxmehrasalil' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
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
piracy, or does it help them? Would lawyers fighting this piracy help
their clients or hurt them?
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxdoujinshicomics' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
<emphasis role='strong'>Let's pause</emphasis> for a moment.
</para>
diverse, and modern society cannot flourish without intellectual
property.
</para>
+<indexterm id='idxdisneywalt3' class='startofrange'><primary>Disney, Walt</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxgrimmfairytales2' class='startofrange'><primary>Grimm fairy tales</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Keaton, Buster</primary></indexterm>
<para>
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
wrong with the taking from the Grimms because the Grimms' work was in
the public domain.
</para>
+<indexterm id='idxfreeculturederivativeworksbasedon' class='startofrange'><primary>free culture</primary><secondary>derivative works based on</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
Thus, even though the things that Disney took—or more generally,
the things taken by anyone exercising Walt Disney creativity—are
things remain free for the taking within a free culture, and that
freedom is good.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxgrimmfairytales2' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm id='idxcopyrightlawjapanese3' class='startofrange'><primary>copyright law</primary><secondary>Japanese</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>comics, Japanese</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxdoujinshicomics2' class='startofrange'><primary>doujinshi comics</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxjapanesecomics2' class='startofrange'><primary>Japanese comics</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxmanga2' class='startofrange'><primary>manga</primary></indexterm>
<para>
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
Disney creativity is seen as fair and right, even if lawyers in
particular find it hard to say why.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxderivativeworkspiracyvs2' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxpiracyderivativeworkvs2' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxcopyrightlawjapanese3' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxdoujinshicomics2' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxjapanesecomics2' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxmanga2' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm><primary>Shakespeare, William</primary></indexterm>
<para>
It's the same with a thousand examples that appear everywhere once you
begin to look. Scientists build upon the work of other scientists
societies more fully than unfree, perhaps, but all societies to some degree.
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</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxdisneywalt3' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
The hard question is therefore not <emphasis>whether</emphasis> a
culture is free. All cultures are free to some degree. The hard
build upon; unfree, or permission, cultures leave much less. Ours was a
free culture. It is becoming much less so.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxfreeculturederivativeworksbasedon' class='endofrange'/>
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</chapter>
<chapter label="2" id="mere-copyists">
<title>CHAPTER TWO: <quote>Mere Copyists</quote></title>
-<indexterm id='idxcameratech' class='startofrange'><primary>camera technology</primary></indexterm>
-<indexterm id='idxphotography' class='startofrange'><primary>photography</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Daguerre, Louis</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxcameratechnology' class='startofrange'><primary>camera technology</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxphotography' class='startofrange'><primary>photography</primary></indexterm>
<para>
<emphasis role='strong'>In 1839</emphasis>, Louis Daguerre invented
the first practical technology for producing what we would call
lowering the costs, Eastman expected he could dramatically broaden the
population of photographers.
</para>
-<indexterm><primary>Kodak Primer, The (Eastman)</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxkodakcameras' class='startofrange'><primary>Kodak cameras</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxkodakprimertheeastman' class='startofrange'><primary>Kodak Primer, The (Eastman)</primary></indexterm>
<para>
Eastman developed flexible, emulsion-coated paper film and placed
rolls of it in small, simple cameras: the Kodak. The device was
chemicals.<footnote>
<para>
<!-- f2 -->
+<indexterm><primary>Coe, Brian</primary></indexterm>
Brian Coe, <citetitle>The Birth of Photography</citetitle> (New York: Taplinger Publishing,
1977), 53.
-<indexterm><primary>Coe, Brian</primary></indexterm>
</para></footnote>
</para>
</blockquote>
+<indexterm startref='idxkodakprimertheeastman' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
For $25, anyone could make pictures. The camera came preloaded
with film, and when it had been used, the camera was returned to an
Based on a chart in Jenkins, p. 178.
</para></footnote>
</para>
-<indexterm startref='idxcameratech' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm><primary>Coe, Brian</primary></indexterm>
<para>
Coe, 58.
</para></footnote>
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>democracy</primary><secondary>in technologies of expression</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>expression, technologies of</primary><secondary>democratic</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
In this way, the Kodak camera and film were technologies of
expression. The pencil or paintbrush was also a technology of
people a way to express themselves more easily than any tools could
have before.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxkodakcameras' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm id='idxpermissionsphotographyexemptedfrom' class='startofrange'><primary>permissions</primary><secondary>photography exempted from</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
What was required for this technology to flourish? Obviously,
Eastman's genius was an important part. But also important was the
Dist. Ct. 1894).
</para></footnote>
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxcameratechnology' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm id='idxdisneywalt4' class='startofrange'><primary>Disney, Walt</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idximagesownershipof' class='startofrange'><primary>images, ownership of</primary></indexterm>
<para>
The arguments in favor of requiring permission will sound surprisingly
familiar. The photographer was <quote>taking</quote> something from the person or
that they thought valuable.
</para>
<indexterm><primary>Brandeis, Louis D.</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Steamboat Bill, Jr.</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxcameratechnology2' class='startofrange'><primary>camera technology</primary></indexterm>
<para>
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
<citetitle>Steamboat Bill, Jr</citetitle>. or the Brothers Grimm, the photographer should be
free to capture an image without compensating the source.
</para>
-<indexterm><primary>images, ownership of</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm startref='idxdisneywalt4' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
Fortunately for Mr. Eastman, and for photography in general, these
early decisions went in favor of the pirates. In general, no
(1993).
</para></footnote>)
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>Kodak cameras</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Napster</primary></indexterm>
<para>
We can only speculate about how photography would have developed had
the law gone the other way. If the presumption had been against the
demonstrated before a company developed pictures. We could imagine a
system developing to demonstrate that permission.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxcameratechnology2' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm id='idxcameratechnology3' class='startofrange'><primary>camera technology</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>democracy</primary><secondary>in technologies of expression</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>expression, technologies of</primary><secondary>democratic</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
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growth in a democratic technology of expression would have been
realized.
</para>
-<indexterm><primary>camera technology</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm startref='idxphotography' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxeastmangeorge' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxpermissionsphotographyexemptedfrom' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idximagesownershipof' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
<emphasis role='strong'>If you drive</emphasis> through San
Francisco's Presidio, you might see two gaudy yellow school buses
something about media by doing something with media. By doing, they
think. By tinkering, they learn.
</para>
-<indexterm startref="idxeastmangeorge" class='endofrange'/>
-<indexterm startref="idxphotography" class='endofrange'/>
<para>
These buses are not cheap, but the technology they carry is
increasingly so. The cost of a high-quality digital video system has
about.
</para>
<indexterm><primary>advertising</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>commercials</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>television</primary><secondary>advertising on</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
Maybe. But in a world where children see on average 390 hours of
television commercials per year, or between 20,000 and 45,000
of how media works, how it holds an audience or leads it through a
story, how it triggers emotion or builds suspense.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxcameratechnology3' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
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
by making them and then reflecting upon what one has created.
</para>
<indexterm><primary>Crichton, Michael</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxdaleyelizabeth' class='startofrange'><primary>Daley, Elizabeth</primary></indexterm>
<para>
This grammar has changed as media has changed. When it was just film,
as Elizabeth Daley, executive director of the University of Southern
Ibid.
</para></footnote>
</para>
-<indexterm><primary>Barish, Stephanie</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxbarishstephanie' class='startofrange'><primary>Barish, Stephanie</primary></indexterm>
<para>
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
opportunity to use film to express meaning about something the
students know something about—gun violence.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxdaleyelizabeth' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
The class was held on Friday afternoons, and it created a relatively
new problem for the school. While the challenge in most classes was
<emphasis>these</emphasis> ideas can be expressed well. The power of
this message depended upon its connection to this form of expression.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxbarishstephanie' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
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not match with any start quote. -->
</blockquote>
+<indexterm id='idxseptemberterroristattacksof' class='startofrange'><primary>September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks of</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>World Trade Center</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxnewscoverage' class='startofrange'><primary>news coverage</primary></indexterm>
<para>
<emphasis role='strong'>When two planes</emphasis> crashed into the
World Trade Center, another into the Pentagon, and a fourth into a
captured the attention of the world. There was ABC and CBS, but there
was also the Internet.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxseptemberterroristattacksof' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
I don't mean simply to praise the Internet—though I do think the
people who supported this form of speech should be praised. I mean
that this mix of captured images, sound, and commentary can be widely
spread practically instantaneously.
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks of</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxblogsweblogs' class='startofrange'><primary>blogs (Web-logs)</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxinternetblogson' class='startofrange'><primary>Internet</primary><secondary>blogs on</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxweblogsblogs' class='startofrange'><primary>Web-logs (blogs)</primary></indexterm>
<para>
September 11 was not an aberration. It was a beginning. Around the
same time, a form of communication that has grown dramatically was
cultures, it records private facts in a public way—it's a kind
of electronic <citetitle>Jerry Springer</citetitle>, available anywhere in the world.
</para>
-<indexterm><primary>blogs (Web-logs)</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>political discourse</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxinternetpublicdiscourseconductedon' class='startofrange'><primary>Internet</primary><secondary>public discourse conducted on</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
But in the United States, blogs have taken on a very different
character. There are some who use the space simply to talk about
criticizing with or adding to them. They are arguably the most
important form of unchoreographed public discourse that we have.
</para>
+<indexterm id='idxdemocracyintechnologiesofexpression' class='startofrange'><primary>democracy</primary><secondary>in technologies of expression</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxelections' class='startofrange'><primary>elections</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxexpressiontechnologiesofdemocratic' class='startofrange'><primary>expression, technologies of</primary><secondary>democratic</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
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
in those elections. The cycle of these elections has become totally
professionalized and routinized. Most of us think this is democracy.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxblogsweblogs' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxinternetblogson' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxweblogsblogs' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm><primary>Tocqueville, Alexis de</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxdemocracypublicdiscoursein' class='startofrange'><primary>democracy</primary><secondary>public discourse in</secondary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>jury system</primary></indexterm>
<para>
But democracy has never just been about elections. Democracy
bk. 1, trans. Henry Reeve (New York: Bantam Books, 2000), ch. 16.
</para></footnote>
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxelections' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
Yet even this institution flags in American life today. And in its
place, there is no systematic effort to enable citizen deliberation. Some
remains. But for most of us for most of the time, there is no time or
place for <quote>democratic deliberation</quote> to occur.
</para>
+<indexterm id='idxpoliticaldiscourse' class='startofrange'><primary>political discourse</primary></indexterm>
<para>
More bizarrely, there is generally not even permission for it to
occur. We, the most powerful democracy in the world, have developed a
</para></footnote> We say what our friends want to hear, and hear very
little beyond what our friends say.
</para>
-<indexterm id='idxblogs1' class='startofrange'><primary>blogs (Web-logs)</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxblogsweblogs2' class='startofrange'><primary>blogs (Web-logs)</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>e-mail</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxinternetblogson2' class='startofrange'><primary>Internet</primary><secondary>blogs on</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxweblogsblogs2' class='startofrange'><primary>Web-logs (blogs)</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm startref='idxdemocracyintechnologiesofexpression' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxexpressiontechnologiesofdemocratic' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxdemocracypublicdiscoursein' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
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
</para>
<indexterm><primary>Lott, Trent</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Thurmond, Strom</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxmediablogpressureon' class='startofrange'><primary>media</primary><secondary>blog pressure on</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxinternetnewseventson2' class='startofrange'><primary>Internet</primary><secondary>news events on</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
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
York Times, 16 January 2003, G5.
</para></footnote>
</para>
+<indexterm id='idxmediacommercialimperativesof' class='startofrange'><primary>media</primary><secondary>commercial imperatives of</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
This different cycle is possible because the same commercial pressures
don't exist with blogs as with other ventures. Television and
If they lose readers, they lose revenue. Like sharks, they must move
on.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxmediablogpressureon' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm><primary>Internet</primary><secondary>peer-generated rankings on</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
But bloggers don't have a similar constraint. They can obsess, they
can focus, they can get serious. If a particular blogger writes a
popular has been selected by a very democratic process of
peer-generated rankings.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxmediacommercialimperativesof' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm id='idxjournalism' class='startofrange'><primary>journalism</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxwinerdave' class='startofrange'><primary>Winer, Dave</primary></indexterm>
<para>
There's a second way, as well, in which blogs have a different cycle
get it out of the way.</quote>
</para>
<indexterm><primary>CNN</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>media</primary><secondary>commercial imperatives of</secondary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Iraq war</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>media</primary><secondary>ownership concentration in</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
These conflicts become more important as media becomes more
concentrated (more on this below). A concentrated media can hide 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>)
</para>
-<para> Blog space gives amateurs a way to enter the
-debate—<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.<footnote><para>
+<indexterm startref='idxinternetnewseventson2' class='endofrange'/>
+<para>
+Blog space gives amateurs a way to enter the
+debate—<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.<footnote><para>
<!-- f20 -->
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
of the Internet (meaning infringing on copyright), Winer said, <quote>we will
be the last thing that gets shut down.</quote>
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxjournalism' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
This speech affects democracy. Winer thinks that happens because <quote>you
don't have to work for somebody who controls, [for] a gatekeeper.</quote>
happens. When there are ten million, there will be something
extraordinary to report.
</para>
-<indexterm startref='idxblogs1' class='endofrange'/>
-<indexterm startref="idxwinerdave" class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxnewscoverage' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxinternetpublicdiscourseconductedon' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxpoliticaldiscourse' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxblogsweblogs2' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxinternetblogson2' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxweblogsblogs2' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxwinerdave' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm id='idxbrownjohnseely' class='startofrange'><primary>Brown, John Seely</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxadvertising1' class='startofrange'><primary>advertising</primary></indexterm>
<para>
<title>CHAPTER THREE: Catalogs</title>
<indexterm><primary>RPI</primary><see>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)</see></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxrensselaer' class='startofrange'><primary>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxsearchengines' class='startofrange'><primary>search engines</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxuniversitycomputernetworksppsharingon' class='startofrange'><primary>university computer networks, p2p sharing on</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxinternetsearchenginesusedon' class='startofrange'><primary>Internet</primary><secondary>search engines used on</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
<emphasis role='strong'>In the fall</emphasis> of 2002, Jesse Jordan
of Oceanside, New York, enrolled as a freshman at Rensselaer
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.
</para>
+<indexterm id='idxgoogle' class='startofrange'><primary>Google</primary></indexterm>
<para>
Search engines are a measure of a network's intimacy. Google
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time, enabling employees to have access to material that people
outside the business can't get. Universities do it as well.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxuniversitycomputernetworksppsharingon' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm id='idxjordanjesse' class='startofrange'><primary>Jordan, Jesse</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxmicrosoftnetworkfilesystemof' class='startofrange'><primary>Microsoft</primary><secondary>network file system of</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
These engines are enabled by the network technology itself.
Microsoft, for example, has a network file system that makes it very
technology. It used Microsoft's network file system to build an index
of all the files available within the RPI network.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxgoogle' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
Jesse's wasn't the first search engine built for the RPI network.
Indeed, his engine was a simple modification of engines that others
a user could click to see if the machine holding the file was still
on-line.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxmicrosoftnetworkfilesystemof' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
Jesse's engine went on-line in late October. Over the following six
months, he continued to tweak it to improve its functionality. By
million files in his directory, including every type of content that might
be on users' computers.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxinternetsearchenginesusedon' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
Thus the index his search engine produced included pictures, which
students could use to put on their own Web sites; copies of notes or
users of the RPI network made available in a public folder of their
computer.
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>Google</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>education</primary><secondary>tinkering as means of</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
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
created or posted, and the vast majority of which had nothing to do
with music.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxsearchengines' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm><primary>statutory damages</primary></indexterm>
<para>
But the RIAA branded Jesse a pirate. They claimed he operated a
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>
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxjordanjesse' class='endofrange'/>
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</chapter>
<chapter label="4" id="pirates">
</section>
<section id="recordedmusic">
<title>Recorded Music</title>
+<indexterm id='idxcopyrightlawonmusicrecordings' class='startofrange'><primary>copyright law</primary><secondary>on music recordings</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
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.
of recordings so long as they paid the composer (or copyright holder)
the fee set by the statute.
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>Grisham, John</primary></indexterm>
<para>
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 is thus set by Grisham, and copyright law ordinarily says you
have no permission to use Grisham's work except with permission of
Grisham.
-<indexterm><primary>Grisham, John</primary></indexterm>
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxcopyrightlawonmusicrecordings' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
But the law governing recordings gives recording artists less. And
thus, in effect, the law <emphasis>subsidizes</emphasis> the recording
this has meant more rights for creators. Sometimes less.
</para>
<indexterm><primary>artists</primary><secondary>recording industry payments to</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>composers, copyright protections of</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxcongressusoncopyrightlaws2' class='startofrange'><primary>Congress, U.S.</primary><secondary>on copyright laws</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxcongressusonrecordingindustry2' class='startofrange'><primary>Congress, U.S.</primary><secondary>on recording industry</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxcopyrightlawonmusicrecordings2' class='startofrange'><primary>copyright law</primary><secondary>on music recordings</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxcopyrightlawstatutorylicensesin2' class='startofrange'><primary>copyright law</primary><secondary>statutory licenses in</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>radio</primary><secondary>music recordings played on</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>recording industry</primary><secondary>artist remuneration in</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>recording industry</primary><secondary>copyright protections in</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>recording industry</primary><secondary>radio broadcast and</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>statutory licenses</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>composer's rights vs. producers' rights in</primary></indexterm>
<para>
So, as we've seen, when <quote>mechanical reproduction</quote> threatened the
interests of composers, Congress balanced the rights of composers
companies the right to the content, so long as they paid the statutory
price.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxcongressusonrecordingindustry2' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
<!-- PAGE BREAK 88 -->
<emphasis>compensation</emphasis> without giving the past
(broadcasters) control over the future (cable).
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxcopyrightlawonmusicrecordings2' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxcopyrightlawstatutorylicensesin2' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm startref='idxcabletv2' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm><primary>Betamax</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxcassettevcrs1' class='startofrange'><primary>cassette recording</primary><secondary>VCRs</secondary></indexterm>
infringement of its customers. It should therefore, Disney and
Universal claimed, be partially liable for that infringement.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxcongressusoncopyrightlaws2' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
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
not, and for that, Disney and Universal wanted to hold it responsible
for the architecture it chose.
</para>
+<indexterm id='idxcongressusoncopyrightlaws3' class='startofrange'><primary>Congress, U.S.</primary><secondary>on copyright laws</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Congress, U.S.</primary><secondary>on VCR technology</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
MPAA president Jack Valenti became the studios' most vocal
champion. Valenti called VCRs <quote>tapeworms.</quote> He warned, <quote>When there are
<!-- f19 -->
Copyright Infringements (Audio and Video Recorders), 475.
</para></footnote>
-Indeed, as surveys would later show,
+Indeed, as surveys would later show, 45
percent of VCR owners had movie libraries of ten videos or more<footnote><para>
<!-- f20 -->
<citetitle>Universal City Studios, Inc</citetitle>. v. <citetitle>Sony Corp. of America</citetitle>, 480 F. Supp. 429,
</para></footnote>
— 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
+copyright infringement without creating a mechanism to compensate
+copyright owners,</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><footnote><para>
</para></footnote>
</para>
</blockquote>
+<indexterm startref='idxcongressusoncopyrightlaws3' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
Congress was asked to respond to the Supreme Court's decision. But as
with the plea of recording artists about radio broadcasts, Congress
interests at stake.
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</para>
+<indexterm><primary>Disney, Walt</primary></indexterm>
<para>
When you think across these examples, and the other examples that
make up the first four chapters of this section, this balance makes
controlled film? Should every cover band have to hire a lawyer to get
permission to record a song?
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>Supreme Court, U.S.</primary><secondary>on balance of interests in copyright law</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
We could answer yes to each of these questions, but our tradition
has answered no. In our tradition, as the Supreme Court has stated,
table, and putting it in my backyard? What is the thing I am taking
then?
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>Jefferson, Thomas</primary></indexterm>
<para>
The point is not just about the thingness of picnic tables versus
ideas, though that's an important difference. The point instead is that
Ellery Bergh, eds., 1903), 330, 333–34.
</para></footnote>
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>property rights</primary><secondary>intangibility of</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
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
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<chapter label="6" id="founders">
<title>CHAPTER SIX: Founders</title>
-<indexterm><primary>Henry V</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxbooksenglishcopyrightlawdevelopedfor' class='startofrange'><primary>books</primary><secondary>English copyright law developed for</secondary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Branagh, Kenneth</primary></indexterm>
-<indexterm id='idxbooksenglishlaw' class='startofrange'><primary>books</primary><secondary>English copyright law developed for</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Henry V</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Shakespeare, William</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxromeoandjulietshakespeare' class='startofrange'><primary>Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)</primary></indexterm>
<para>
<emphasis role='strong'>William Shakespeare</emphasis> wrote
<citetitle>Romeo and Juliet</citetitle> in 1595. The play was first
Henry V: <quote>I liked it, but Shakespeare is so full of
clichés.</quote>
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>Conger</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxtonsonjacob' class='startofrange'><primary>Tonson, Jacob</primary></indexterm>
<para>
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
produce better or cheaper editions was eliminated.
</para>
<indexterm id='idxbritishparliament' class='startofrange'><primary>British Parliament</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Statute of Anne (1710)</primary></indexterm>
<para>
Now, there's something puzzling about the year 1774 to anyone who
knows a little about copyright law. The better-known year in the
free in 1731. So why was there any issue about it still being under
Tonson's control in 1774?
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxromeoandjulietshakespeare' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxtonsonjacob' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm><primary>Licensing Act (1662)</primary></indexterm>
<para>
The reason is that the English hadn't yet agreed on what a <quote>copyright</quote>
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?
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>Statute of Anne (1710)</primary></indexterm>
<para>
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
protected.
</para>
<indexterm startref='idxbritishparliament' class='endofrange'/>
-<indexterm startref='idxbooksenglishlaw' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxbooksenglishcopyrightlawdevelopedfor' class='endofrange'/>
<!-- PAGE BREAK 106 -->
</chapter>
<chapter label="7" id="recorders">
<indexterm><primary>Vanderbilt University</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Way Back Machine</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>libraries</primary><secondary>archival function of</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxnewscoverage2' class='startofrange'><primary>news coverage</primary></indexterm>
<para>
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
</para>
<indexterm><primary>Movie Archive</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>archive.org</primary><seealso>Internet Archive</seealso></indexterm>
+<indexterm startref='idxnewscoverage2' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm><primary>films</primary><secondary>archive of</secondary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Internet Archive</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Duck and Cover film</primary></indexterm>
the moon, and the invention of the printing press.
</para>
</blockquote>
+<indexterm><primary>Disney, Walt</primary></indexterm>
<para>
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
owner. He is effectively arguing for a change in our Constitution
itself.
</para>
+<indexterm id='idxjeffersonthomas' class='startofrange'><primary>Jefferson, Thomas</primary></indexterm>
<para>
Arguing for a change in our Constitution is not necessarily wrong.
There was much in our original Constitution that was plainly wrong.
did they require that for creative property there must be a public
domain?
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxjeffersonthomas' class='endofrange'/>
+
<para>
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
uncertainty would make it hard for publishers to rely upon a public
domain to reprint and distribute works.
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>Statute of Anne (1710)</primary></indexterm>
<para>
That uncertainty ended after Congress passed legislation granting
copyrights. Because federal law overrides any contrary state law,
</para></footnote>
These two different uses of my creative work are treated the same.
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>Disney, Walt</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Mickey Mouse</primary></indexterm>
<para>
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
by the legislators who enacted copyright law.
</para>
<para>
-We can see this point abstractly by beginning with this largely
+We can see this point abstractly by beginning with this largely
empty circle.
</para>
<figure id="fig-1521">
<title>All potential uses of a book.</title>
<graphic fileref="images/1521.png"></graphic>
</figure>
-<indexterm id='idxbooksusetypes' class='startofrange'><primary>books</primary><secondary>three types of uses of</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxbooksthreetypesofusesof' class='startofrange'><primary>books</primary><secondary>three types of uses of</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxcopyrightlawcopiesascoreissueof2' class='startofrange'><primary>copyright law</primary><secondary>copies as core issue of</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxinternetcopyrightapplicabilityalteredbytechnologyof' class='startofrange'><primary>Internet</primary><secondary>copyright applicability altered by technology of</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxtechnologycopyrightintentalteredby' class='startofrange'><primary>technology</primary><secondary>copyright intent altered by</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxderivativeworkspiracyvs4' class='startofrange'><primary>derivative works</primary><secondary>piracy vs.</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxpiracyderivativeworkvs4' class='startofrange'><primary>piracy</primary><secondary>derivative work vs.</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
<!-- PAGE BREAK 152 -->
Think about a book in real space, and imagine this circle to represent
paradigmatic use properly regulated by copyright regulation (see first
diagram on next page).
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxderivativeworkspiracyvs4' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxpiracyderivativeworkvs4' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
Finally, there is a tiny sliver of otherwise regulated copying uses
that remain unregulated because the law considers these <quote>fair uses.</quote>
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.
</para>
-<indexterm startref='idxbooksusetypes' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxbooksthreetypesofusesof' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm><primary>books</primary><secondary>on Internet</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
Enter the Internet—a distributed, digital network where every use
none of those uses produced a copy.
</para>
<indexterm><primary>books</primary><secondary>on Internet</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxderivativeworkstechnologicaldevelopmentsand' class='startofrange'><primary>derivative works</primary><secondary>technological developments and</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
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
allowed our policy here to shift. Unregulated uses were an important
part of free culture before the Internet.
</para>
+<indexterm id='idxcopyrightlawonrepublishingvstransformationoforiginalwork3' class='startofrange'><primary>copyright law</primary><secondary>on republishing vs. transformation of original work</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
Second, this shift is especially troubling in the context of
transformative uses of creative content. Again, we can all understand
read was effectively protected before because reading was not
regulated.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxcopyrightlawcopiesascoreissueof2' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxinternetcopyrightapplicabilityalteredbytechnologyof' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxtechnologycopyrightintentalteredby' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxderivativeworkstechnologicaldevelopmentsand' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxcopyrightlawonrepublishingvstransformationoforiginalwork3' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
This point about fair use is totally ignored, even by advocates for
free culture. We have been cornered into arguing that our rights
<title>List of the permissions for Aristotle;s <quote>Politics</quote>.</title>
<graphic fileref="images/1622.png"></graphic>
</figure>
+<indexterm><primary>Future of Ideas, The (Lessig)</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Lessig, Lawrence</primary></indexterm>
<para>
Finally (and most embarrassingly), here are the permissions for the
original e-book version of my last book, <citetitle>The Future of
won't read aloud.
</para>
<indexterm><primary>Marx Brothers</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Warner Brothers</primary></indexterm>
<para>
<!-- PAGE BREAK 163 -->
These are <emphasis>controls</emphasis>, not permissions. Imagine a
We've only scratched the surface of this story. Return to the Adobe
eBook Reader.
</para>
-<indexterm><primary>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxalicesadventuresinwonderlandcarroll' class='startofrange'><primary>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxpublicdomainebookrestrictionson2' class='startofrange'><primary>public domain</primary><secondary>e-book restrictions on</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
Early in the life of the Adobe eBook Reader, Adobe suffered a public
relations nightmare. Among the books that you could download for free
such a use of an eBook Reader was fair? Adobe didn't answer because
the answer, however absurd it might seem, is no.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxalicesadventuresinwonderlandcarroll' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxpublicdomainebookrestrictionson2' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
The point is not to blame Adobe. Indeed, Adobe is among the most
innovative companies developing strategies to balance open access to
a library of public domain works by scanning these works and making
them available for free.
</para>
+<indexterm id='idxdisneywalt5' class='startofrange'><primary>Disney, Walt</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Grimm fairy tales</primary></indexterm>
<para>
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
(<citetitle>The Hunchback of Notre Dame</citetitle>, <citetitle>Treasure Planet</citetitle>). These are all
commercial publications of public domain works.
</para>
-<indexterm startref="idxhawthornenathaniel" class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxhawthornenathaniel' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxdisneywalt5' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
The Internet created the possibility of noncommercial publications of
public domain works. Eldred's is just one example. There are literally
individuals and groups dedicated to spreading culture
generally.<footnote><para>
<!-- f1. -->
+<indexterm><primary>pornography</primary></indexterm>
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—people who
devote my life to teaching constitutional law if these nine Justices
were going to be petty politicians.
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>Constitution, U.S.</primary><secondary>copyright purpose established in</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>copyright</primary><secondary>constitutional purpose of</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>copyright</primary><secondary>duration of</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Disney, Walt</primary></indexterm>
<para>
<emphasis role='strong'>Now let's pause</emphasis> for a moment to
make sure we understand what the argument in
finally, former solicitor general Charles Fried.
</para>
<indexterm><primary>Fried, Charles</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Congress, U.S.</primary><secondary>constitutional powers of</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Constitution, U.S.</primary><secondary>Commerce Clause of</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
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
wanted to control.
</para>
<indexterm><primary>Gershwin, George</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Porgy and Bess</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>pornography</primary></indexterm>
<para>
Dr. Seuss's representatives, for example, argued that it was
better for the Dr. Seuss estate to control what happened to
WIPO is the preeminent international body dealing with intellectual
property issues.
</para>
+<indexterm id='idxworldsummitontheinformationsocietywsis' class='startofrange'><primary>World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)</primary></indexterm>
<para>
Indeed, I was once publicly scolded for not recognizing this fact
about WIPO. In February 2003, I delivered a keynote address to a
thus the meeting about <quote>open and collaborative projects to create
public goods</quote> seemed perfectly appropriate within the WIPO agenda.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxworldsummitontheinformationsocietywsis' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm><primary>Apple Corporation</primary></indexterm>
<para>
But there is one project within that list that is highly
first-year law student, but an embarrassment from a high government
official dealing with intellectual property issues.
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>drugs</primary><secondary>pharmaceutical</secondary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>generic drugs</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>patents</primary><secondary>on pharmaceuticals</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
Second, who ever said that WIPO's exclusive aim was to <quote>promote</quote>
intellectual property maximally? As I had been scolded at the
who help build the public domain and, by their work, demonstrate the
importance of the public domain to other creativity.
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>Jefferson, Thomas</primary></indexterm>
<para>
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
The law should regulate in certain areas of culture—but it should
regulate culture only where that regulation does good. Yet lawyers
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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>