</para>
<indexterm><primary>ABC</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>CBS</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Cyber Rights (Godwin)</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Godwin, Mike</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxinternetnewseventson' class='startofrange'><primary>Internet</primary><secondary>news events on</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
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
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 startref='idxinternetnewseventson' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm><primary>political discourse</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxinternetpublicdiscourseconductedon' class='startofrange'><primary>Internet</primary><secondary>public discourse conducted on</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
its composer anything.
</para>
<indexterm startref='idxfourneauxhenri' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm id='idxkittredgealfred' class='startofrange'><primary>Kittredge, Alfred</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxmusicpublishing' class='startofrange'><primary>music publishing</primary></indexterm>
<para>
The composers (and publishers) were none too happy about
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</para></footnote>
</para>
</blockquote>
+<indexterm startref='idxkittredgealfred' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm><primary>Sousa, John Philip</primary></indexterm>
<para>
The innovators who developed the technology to record other
(statement of John Philip Sousa, composer).
</para></footnote>
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxmusicpublishing' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm><primary>American Graphophone Company</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>player pianos</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>sheet music</primary></indexterm>
do—the kinds of sharing that file sharing enables, and the kinds
of harm it entails.
</para>
+<indexterm id='idxpeertopeerppfilesharingfourtypesof' class='startofrange'><primary>peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing</primary><secondary>four types of</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Napster</primary><secondary>range of content on</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
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File sharers share different kinds of content. We can divide these
wants to give away.
</para></listitem>
</orderedlist>
+<indexterm startref='idxpeertopeerppfilesharingfourtypesof' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
How do these different types of sharing balance out?
</para>
technology, the labels fought it.</quote><footnote><para>
<!-- f10 -->
<indexterm><primary>cassette recording</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>DAT (digital audio tape)</primary></indexterm>
See Cap Gemini Ernst & 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
<quote>But isn't the war just a war against illegal sharing? Isn't the target
just what you call type A sharing?</quote>
</para>
+<indexterm id='idxcopyrightinfringementlawsuitszerotolerancein' class='startofrange'><primary>copyright infringement lawsuits</primary><secondary>zero tolerance in</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxnapsterinfringingmaterialblockedby' class='startofrange'><primary>Napster</primary><secondary>infringing material blocked by</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxpeertopeerppfilesharinginfringementprotectionsin' class='startofrange'><primary>peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing</primary><secondary>infringement protections in</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
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
York: Crown Business, 2003), 269–82.
</para></footnote>
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxnapsterinfringingmaterialblockedby' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxpeertopeerppfilesharinginfringementprotectionsin' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
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
p2p, even for the totally legal and beneficial uses they serve, simply to
assure that there are zero copyright infringements caused by p2p.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxcopyrightinfringementlawsuitszerotolerancein' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
Zero tolerance has not been our history. It has not produced the
content industry that we know today. The history of American law has
price.
</para>
<indexterm startref='idxcongressusonrecordingindustry2' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm><primary>copyright law</primary><secondary>two central goals of</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
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</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>
+<indexterm id='idxvalentijackonvcrtechnology' class='startofrange'><primary>Valenti, Jack</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>
<indexterm><primary>Kozinski, Alex</primary></indexterm>
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxvalentijackonvcrtechnology' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
But the Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Ninth Circuit.
<para>
In each case throughout our history, a new technology changed the
way content was distributed.<footnote><para>
+<indexterm><primary>DAT (digital audio tape)</primary></indexterm>
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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,
</para>
<blockquote>
<indexterm><primary>books</primary><secondary>total number of</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>films</primary><secondary>total number of</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>music recordings</primary><see>peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing</see></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>music recordings</primary><see>recording industry</see></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>music recordings</primary><secondary>total number of</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
It looks like there's about two to three million recordings of music.
Ever. There are about a hundred thousand theatrical releases of
<title>Chapter Ten: <quote>Property</quote></title>
<indexterm><primary>Johnson, Lyndon</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Kennedy, John F.</primary></indexterm>
-<indexterm><primary>Valenti, Jack</primary><secondary>background of</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm
id='idxvalentijackbackgroundof' class='startofrange'><primary>Valenti, Jack</primary><secondary>background of</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
<emphasis role='strong'>Jack Valenti</emphasis> has been the president
of the Motion Picture Association of America since 1966. He first came
prominent and effective lobbyist in Washington.
</para>
<indexterm><primary>Disney, Inc.</primary></indexterm>
-<indexterm><primary>Sony Pictures Entertainment</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>MGM</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Paramount Pictures</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Twentieth Century Fox</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Sony Pictures Entertainment</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Universal Pictures</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Warner Brothers</primary></indexterm>
<para>
Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Studios, and
Warner Brothers.
</para>
-<indexterm id='idxvalentijackbackgroundof' class='startofrange'><primary>Valenti, Jack</primary><secondary>background of</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
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Valenti is only the third president of the MPAA. No president before
the nation's radio advertising revenues.
</para>
<indexterm><primary>cable television</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxnewspapersownershipconsolidationof' class='startofrange'><primary>newspapers</primary><secondary>ownership consolidation of</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
Newspaper ownership is becoming more concentrated as well. Today,
there are six hundred fewer daily newspapers in the United States than
</para></footnote>
</para>
</blockquote>
+<indexterm startref='idxnewspapersownershipconsolidationof' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm startref='idxradioownershipconsolidationin' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
The pattern with Murdoch is the pattern of modern media. Not
</para></footnote>
</para>
</blockquote>
+<indexterm><primary>democracy</primary><secondary>media concentration and</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
This narrowing has an effect on what is produced. The product of such
large and concentrated networks is increasingly homogenous.
wars. Government policy is strongly directed against the drug cartels;
criminal and civil courts are filled with the consequences of this battle.
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>criminal justice system</primary></indexterm>
<para>
Let me hereby disqualify myself from any possible appointment to
any position in government by saying I believe this war is a profound
weave together a string—a mash-up— of songs from your
favorite artists in a collage and make it available on the Net.
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>democracy</primary><secondary>digital sharing within</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Kodak cameras</primary></indexterm>
<para>
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,
no more than $250,000 in damages for pain and
suffering.<footnote>
<para>
-<!-- f2. --> The bill, modeled after California's tort reform model, was passed in the
+<!-- f2. -->
+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
available at
<ulink url="http://free-culture.cc/notes/">link #39</ulink>. President Bush has continued to urge tort reform in
recent months.
+<indexterm><primary>tort reform</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Bush, George W.</primary></indexterm>
</para></footnote>
Can common sense recognize the absurdity in a world where
</para></footnote>
</para>
+<indexterm id='idxnapsterrecordingindustrytrackingusersof' class='startofrange'><primary>Napster</primary><secondary>recording industry tracking users of</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
Even this understates the espionage that is being waged by the
RIAA. A report from CNN late last summer described a strategy the
the middle of wars of prohibition. This war is no different.
Says von Lohmann,
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxnapsterrecordingindustrytrackingusersof' class='endofrange'/>
<blockquote>
<para>
So when we're talking about numbers like forty to sixty million
<!-- f2. -->
<indexterm><primary>Bono, Mary</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Bono, Sonny</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Valenti, Jack</primary><secondary>perpetual copyright term proposed by</secondary></indexterm>
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
everything else, let the content go.
</para>
<indexterm><primary>Forbes, Steve</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Democratic Party</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Republican Party</primary></indexterm>
<para>
The reaction to this idea was amazingly strong. Steve Forbes endorsed
it in an editorial. I received an avalanche of e-mail and letters
close.</quote> There was a general reaction in the blog community that
something good might happen here.
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>Valenti, Jack</primary><secondary>Eldred Act opposed by</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
But at this stage, the lobbyists began to intervene. Jack Valenti and
the MPAA general counsel came to the congresswoman's office to give
role. Instead, we should be creating incentives for private parties to
serve the public, subject to standards that the government sets.
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>domain names</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Internet</primary><secondary>domain name registration on</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Web sites, domain name registration of</primary></indexterm>
<para>
In the context of registration, one obvious model is the Internet.
There are at least 32 million Web sites registered around the world.
</para>
<indexterm startref='idxpromisestokeepfisher' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm><primary>artists</primary><secondary>recording industry payments to</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>semiotic democracy</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>democracy</primary><secondary>semiotic</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
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
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