</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>
extraordinary to report.
</para>
<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 startref='idxinternetpublicdiscourseconductedon' 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">
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
</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
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">
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,
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
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
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