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To Eric Eldred—whose work first drew me to this cause, and for whom
it continues still.
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<chapter id="mere-copyists">
<title>CHAPTER TWO: "Mere Copyists"</title>
-<indexterm><primary>Daguerre, Louis</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id="idxphotography" class='startofrange'>
+ <primary>photography</primary>
+</indexterm>
<para>
In 1839, Louis Daguerre invented the first practical technology for
producing what we would call "photographs." Appropriately enough, they
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.)
+<indexterm><primary>Daguerre, Louis</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<para>
Yet despite high prices, the demand for daguerreotypes was strong.
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.
+<indexterm><primary>Talbot, William</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<indexterm id="idxeastmangeorge" class='startofrange'>
<primary>Eastman, George</primary>
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
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.
+<indexterm><primary>GNU/Linux operating system</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Linux operating system</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm>
<primary>Microsoft</primary>
what—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.
+<indexterm><primary>GNU/Linux operating system</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Linux operating system</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<para>
</para>
<table id="t1">
-<title>Table</title>
+<title>Pattern of Court and Congress response</title>
<tgroup cols="4" align="char">
<thead>
<row>
Wonderland</citetitle>. This wonderful book is in the public
domain. Yet when you clicked on Permissions for that book, you got the
following report:
+<indexterm><primary>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<figure id="fig-1641">
<title>List of the permissions for "Alice's Adventures in
After Muni Rejects Ad," SFGate.com, 16 June 2003, available at
<ulink url="http://free-culture.cc/notes/">link #32</ulink>. The ground
was that the criticism was "too controversial."
+<indexterm><primary>ABC</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Comcast</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Marijuana Policy Project</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>NBC</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>WJOA</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>WRC</primary></indexterm>
</para></footnote>
</para>
<para>
</para>
<table id="t2">
-<title></title>
+<title>Law status in 1790</title>
<tgroup cols="3" align="char">
<thead>
<row>
</para>
<table id="t3">
-<title></title>
+<title>Law status at the end of ninetheenth centory</title>
<tgroup cols="3" align="char">
<thead>
<row>
</para>
<table id="t4">
-<title></title>
+<title>Law status in 1975</title>
<tgroup cols="3" align="char">
<thead>
<row>
</para>
<table id="t5">
-<title></title>
+<title>Law status now</title>
<tgroup cols="3" align="char">
<thead>
<row>
We pride ourselves on our "free society," 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.
+<indexterm><primary>alcohol prohibition</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<para>
This state of affairs is not without consequence. It is a particularly
system, our law requires it. Some may not like the Constitution's
requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's
charter.
+<indexterm><primary>Nashville Songwriters Association</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<para>
As we've seen, our constitutional system requires limits on
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.
+<indexterm><primary>GNU/Linux operating system</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Linux operating system</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Eagle Forum</primary></indexterm>
</para>
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.
+<indexterm><primary>American Association of Law Libraries</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>National Writers Union</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<para>
But two briefs captured the policy argument best. One made the
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 "open source and free software."
+<indexterm><primary>academic journals</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>PLoS (Public Library of Science)</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<para>
May 2001), available at
<ulink url="http://free-culture.cc/notes/">link #63</ulink>.
</para></footnote>
+<indexterm><primary>GNU/Linux operating system</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Linux operating system</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<para>
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 "Linux"
kernel was added to produce the GNU/Linux operating system.
+<indexterm><primary>GNU/Linux operating system</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Linux operating system</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<para>
with the story of this book. This is the shift in the way academic and
scientific journals are produced.
</para>
+<indexterm id="idxacademocjournals" class='startofrange'>
+ <primary>academic journals</primary>
+</indexterm>
<para>
As digital technologies develop, it is becoming obvious to many that
printing thousands of copies of journals every month and sending them
presumptively a good—especially when it helps spread knowledge
and science.
</para>
+<indexterm startref="idxacademocjournals" class='endofrange'/>
</section>
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