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+<dedication id="salespoints">
+<title></title>
<para>
You can buy a copy of this book by clicking on one of the links below:
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+<dedication id="alsobylessig">
+<title></title>
<para>
ALSO BY LAWRENCE LESSIG
</para>
<para>
Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace
</para>
-
+</dedication>
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+<dedication id="frontpublisher">
+<title></title>
<para>
THE PENGUIN PRESS, NEW YORK
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-
+</dedication>
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+<dedication id="frontbookinfo">
+<title></title>
<para>
FREE CULTURE
</para>
<para>
LAWRENCE LESSIG
</para>
-
+</dedication>
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+<colophon>
<para>
THE PENGUIN PRESS, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 375 Hudson Street New
York, New York
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-<chapter id="c-introduction">
+<chapter label="0" id="c-introduction">
<title>INTRODUCTION</title>
<para>
On December 17, 1903, on a windy North Carolina beach for just
</partintro>
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-<chapter id="creators">
+<chapter label="1" id="creators">
<title>CHAPTER ONE: Creators</title>
<para>
In 1928, a cartoon character was born. An early Mickey Mouse
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</chapter>
-<chapter id="mere-copyists">
+<chapter label="2" id="mere-copyists">
<title>CHAPTER TWO: "Mere Copyists"</title>
<indexterm id="idxphotography" class='startofrange'>
<primary>photography</primary>
camera and … saying, "Let's go have fun with the video camera and
make a little movie." But instead, really help you take these elements
that you understand, that are your language, and construct meaning
-about the topic. …
+about the topic.…
</para>
<para>
That empowers enormously. And then what happens, of
</para>
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</chapter>
-<chapter id="catalogs">
+<chapter label="3" id="catalogs">
<title>CHAPTER THREE: Catalogs</title>
<para>
In the fall of 2002, Jesse Jordan of Oceanside, New York, enrolled as
</para>
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</chapter>
-<chapter id="pirates">
+<chapter label="4" id="pirates">
<title>CHAPTER FOUR: "Pirates"</title>
<para>
If "piracy" means using the creative property of others without
</para></footnote>
</para>
</blockquote>
+<indexterm><primary>Heston, Charlton</primary></indexterm>
<para>
These were "free-ride[rs]," Screen Actor's Guild president Charlton
Heston said, who were "depriving actors of
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Copyright Law Revision—CATV, 209 (statement of Charlton Heston,
president of the Screen Actors Guild).
-</para></footnote>
+<indexterm><primary>Heston, Charlton</primary></indexterm>
+</para>
+</footnote>
</para>
<para>
But again, there was another side to the debate. As Assistant Attorney
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</section>
</chapter>
-<chapter id="piracy">
+<chapter label="5" id="piracy">
<title>CHAPTER FIVE: "Piracy"</title>
<para>
There is piracy of copyrighted material. Lots of it. This piracy comes
</partintro>
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-<chapter id="founders">
+<chapter label="6" id="founders">
<title>CHAPTER SIX: Founders</title>
<para>
William Shakespeare wrote <citetitle>Romeo and Juliet</citetitle> in 1595. The play
Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Henry V: "I liked it, but Shakespeare
is so full of clichés."
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>Henry V</primary></indexterm>
<para>
In 1774, almost 180 years after <citetitle>Romeo and Juliet</citetitle> was written, the
"copy-right" for the work was still thought by many to be the exclusive
<para>
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
+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 "copy-right" was only an exclusive right
-to print—no less, of course, but also no more.
+allowed to make his films. The "copy-right" was only an exclusive
+right to print—no less, of course, but also no more.
</para>
<para>
Even that limited right was viewed with skepticism by the British.
-They had had a long and ugly experience with "exclusive rights,"
- especially
-"exclusive rights" granted by the Crown. The English had fought
-a civil war in part about the Crown's practice of handing out
- monopolies—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.
-</para>
-<para>
-Thus the "copy-right," when viewed as a monopoly right, was
- naturally
-viewed as a right that should be limited. (However convincing
-the claim that "it's my property, and I should have it forever," try
+They had had a long and ugly experience with "exclusive rights,"
+especially "exclusive rights" granted by the Crown. The English had
+fought a civil war in part about the Crown's practice of handing out
+monopolies—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.
+</para>
+<indexterm><primary>Henry VIII, King of England</primary></indexterm>
+<para>
+Thus the "copy-right," when viewed as a monopoly right, was naturally
+viewed as a right that should be limited. (However convincing the
+claim that "it's my property, and I should have it forever," try
sounding convincing when uttering, "It's my monopoly, and I should
-have it forever.") 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.
+have it forever.") 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.
</para>
<para>
Second, about booksellers. It wasn't just that the copyright was a
</para>
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</chapter>
-<chapter id="recorders">
+<chapter label="7" id="recorders">
<title>CHAPTER SEVEN: Recorders</title>
<para>
Jon Else is a filmmaker. He is best known for his documentaries and
</para>
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</chapter>
-<chapter id="transformers">
+<chapter label="8" id="transformers">
<title>CHAPTER EIGHT: Transformers</title>
<indexterm><primary>Allen, Paul</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Alben, Alex</primary></indexterm>
</para>
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</chapter>
-<chapter id="collectors">
+<chapter label="9" id="collectors">
<title>CHAPTER NINE: Collectors</title>
<para>
In April 1996, millions of "bots"—computer codes designed to
</para>
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</chapter>
-<chapter id="property-i">
+<chapter label="10" id="property-i">
<title>CHAPTER TEN: "Property"</title>
<para>
Jack Valenti has been the president of the Motion Picture Association
<title>PUZZLES</title>
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-<chapter id="chimera">
+<chapter label="11" id="chimera">
<title>CHAPTER ELEVEN: Chimera</title>
<indexterm id="idxchimera" class='startofrange'>
<primary>chimeras</primary>
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</chapter>
-<chapter id="harms">
+<chapter label="12" id="harms">
<title>CHAPTER TWELVE: Harms</title>
<para>
To fight "piracy," to protect "property," the content industry has
</partintro>
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-<chapter id="eldred">
+<chapter label="13" id="eldred">
<title>CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Eldred</title>
+<indexterm id="idxhawthornenathaniel" class='startofrange'>
+ <primary>Hawthorne, Nathaniel</primary>
+</indexterm>
<para>
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
(<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'/>
<para>
The Internet created the possibility of noncommercial publications of
public domain works. Eldred's is just one example. There are literally
for other creative works is much more dire.
</para>
<indexterm><primary>Agee, Michael</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Hal Roach Studios</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Laurel and Hardy Films</primary></indexterm>
<para>
Consider the story of Michael Agee, chairman of Hal Roach Studios,
<indexterm><primary>American Association of Law Libraries</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>National Writers Union</primary></indexterm>
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>Hal Roach Studios</primary></indexterm>
<para>
But two briefs captured the policy argument best. One made the
argument I've already described: A brief by Hal Roach Studios argued
who had advised us early on about a First Amendment strategy; and
finally, former solicitor general Charles Fried.
<indexterm><primary>Fried, Charles</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Morrison, Alan</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Public Citizen</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<para>
Fried was a special victory for our side. Every other former solicitor
</para>
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</chapter>
-<chapter id="eldred-ii">
+<chapter label="14" id="eldred-ii">
<title>CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Eldred II</title>
<para>
The day <citetitle>Eldred</citetitle> was decided, fate would have it that I was to travel to
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</chapter>
</part>
-<chapter id="c-conclusion">
+<chapter label="15" id="c-conclusion">
<title>CONCLUSION</title>
<para>
There are more than 35 million people with the AIDS virus
</para>
</chapter>
-<chapter id="c-afterword">
+<chapter label="16" id="c-afterword">
<title>AFTERWORD</title>
<para>
</section>
</section>
</chapter>
-<chapter id="c-notes">
+<chapter label="17" id="c-notes">
<title>NOTES</title>
<para>
Throughout this text, there are references to links on the World Wide
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</chapter>
-<chapter id="c-acknowledgments">
+<chapter label="18" id="c-acknowledgments">
<title>ACKNOWLEDGMENTS</title>
<para>
This book is the product of a long and as yet unsuccessful struggle that
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