<preface id="preface">
<title>PREFACE</title>
-<indexterm id="idxpoguedavid" class='startofrange'><primary>Pogue, David</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxpoguedavid' class='startofrange'><primary>Pogue, David</primary></indexterm>
<para>
<emphasis role="bold">At the end</emphasis> of his review of my first
book, <citetitle>Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace</citetitle>, David
on-line have fundamentally affected <quote>people who aren't online.</quote> There
is no switch that will insulate us from the Internet's effect.
</para>
-<indexterm startref="idxpoguedavid" class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxpoguedavid' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
But unlike <citetitle>Code</citetitle>, the argument here is not much
about the Internet itself. It is instead about the consequence of the
</para>
<indexterm><primary>Causby, Thomas Lee</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Causby, Tinie</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxdouglaswilliamo' class='startofrange'><primary>Douglas, William O.</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxsupremecourtusonairspacevslandrights' class='startofrange'><primary>Supreme Court, U.S.</primary><secondary>on airspace vs. land rights</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
The Supreme Court agreed to hear the Causbys' case. Congress had
declared the airways public, but if one's property really extended to the
<para>
<quote>Common sense revolts at the idea.</quote>
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxdouglaswilliamo' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
This is how the law usually works. Not often this abruptly or
impatiently, but eventually, this is how it works. It was Douglas's style not to
<quote>common sense</quote>—would prevail. Their <quote>private interest</quote> would not be
allowed to defeat an obvious public gain.
</para>
-<indexterm startref='idxpropertyrightsairtrafficvs' class='endofrange'/>
-<indexterm startref='idxlandownershipairtrafficand' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm startref='idxairtrafficlandownershipvs' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxlandownershipairtrafficand' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxpropertyrightsairtrafficvs' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxsupremecourtusonairspacevslandrights' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm id='idxarmstrongedwinhoward' class='startofrange'><primary>Armstrong, Edwin Howard</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Bell, Alexander Graham</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Edison, Thomas</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Faraday, Michael</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxradiofmspectrumof' class='startofrange'><primary>radio</primary><secondary>FM spectrum of</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
<emphasis role='strong'>Edwin Howard Armstrong</emphasis> is one of
America's forgotten inventor geniuses. He came to the great American
</para></footnote>
</para>
</blockquote>
+<indexterm id='idxrca' class='startofrange'><primary>RCA</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxmediaownershipconcentrationin' class='startofrange'><primary>media</primary><secondary>ownership concentration in</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
As our own common sense tells us, Armstrong had discovered a vastly
superior radio technology. But at the time of his invention, Armstrong
</para></footnote>
</para>
</blockquote>
-<indexterm id='idxlessing' class='startofrange'><primary>Lessing, Lawrence</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxfmradio' class='startofrange'><primary>FM radio</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Sarnoff, David</primary></indexterm>
<para>
Armstrong's invention threatened RCA's AM empire, so the company
launched a campaign to smother FM radio. While FM may have been a
superior technology, Sarnoff was a superior tactician. As one author
described,
-<indexterm><primary>Sarnoff, David</primary></indexterm>
</para>
+<indexterm id='idxlessinglawrence' class='startofrange'><primary>Lessing, Lawrence</primary></indexterm>
<blockquote>
<para>
The forces for FM, largely engineering, could not overcome the weight
</para></footnote>
</para>
</blockquote>
+<indexterm id='idxfcconfmradio' class='startofrange'><primary>FCC</primary><secondary>on FM radio</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
RCA at first kept the technology in house, insisting that further
tests were needed. When, after two years of testing, Armstrong grew
</para></footnote>
</para>
</blockquote>
-<indexterm startref='idxlessing' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxlessinglawrence' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm><primary>AT&T</primary></indexterm>
<para>
To make room in the spectrum for RCA's latest gamble, television,
wired links from AT&T.) The spread of FM radio was thus choked, at
least temporarily.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxradiofmspectrumof' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxfcconfmradio' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
Armstrong resisted RCA's efforts. In response, RCA resisted
Armstrong's patents. After incorporating FM technology into the
now broke, in 1954 Armstrong wrote a short note to his wife and then
stepped out of a thirteenth-story window to his death.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxfmradio' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm startref='idxarmstrongedwinhoward' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
This is how the law sometimes works. Not often this tragically, and
process. RCA had what the Causbys did not: the power to stifle the
effect of technological change.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxrca' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref='idxmediaownershipconcentrationin' class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm id='idxinternetdevelopmentof' class='startofrange'><primary>Internet</primary><secondary>development of</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
<emphasis role="strong">There's no</emphasis> single inventor of the Internet. Nor is there any good date
upon which to mark its birth. Yet in a very short time, the Internet
would reject it. Yet most don't even see the change that the Internet
has introduced.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxinternetdevelopmentof' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm><primary>Barlow, Joel</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxculturecommercialvsnoncommercial' class='startofrange'><primary>culture</primary><secondary>commercial vs. noncommercial</secondary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Webster, Noah</primary></indexterm>
<para>
We can glimpse a sense of this change by distinguishing between
succeeding in their plan to remake the Internet before the Internet
remakes them.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxculturecommercialvsnoncommercial' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm><primary>Valenti, Jack</primary><secondary> on creative property rights</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
It doesn't seem this way to many. The battles over copyright and the
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<indexterm><primary>Copyright law</primary><secondary>English</secondary></indexterm>
-<indexterm id="idxmansfield1" class='startofrange'><primary>Mansfield, William Murray, Lord</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxmansfield1' class='startofrange'><primary>Mansfield, William Murray, Lord</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>music publishing</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>sheet music</primary></indexterm>
<para>
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<chapter label="1" id="creators">
<title>CHAPTER ONE: Creators</title>
-<indexterm id="idxanimadedcartoons" class='startofrange'><primary>animated cartoons</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxanimadedcartoons' class='startofrange'><primary>animated cartoons</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxcartoonfilms' class='startofrange'><primary>cartoon films</primary></indexterm>
<para>
<emphasis role="strong">In 1928</emphasis>, a cartoon character was born. An early Mickey Mouse
infringement of the original copyright to make a copy or a derivative
work without the original copyright owner's permission.
</para>
-<indexterm id="idxwinickjudd" class='startofrange'><primary>Winick, Judd</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxwinickjudd' class='startofrange'><primary>Winick, Judd</primary></indexterm>
<para>
Yet this illegal market exists and indeed flourishes in Japan, and in
the view of many, it is precisely because it exists that Japanese manga
<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 id='idxphotography' class='startofrange'><primary>photography</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Daguerre, Louis</primary></indexterm>
<para>
<emphasis role='strong'>In 1839</emphasis>, Louis Daguerre invented
glass, and thus it was still not a process within reach of most
amateurs.
</para>
-<indexterm id="idxeastmangeorge" class='startofrange'><primary>Eastman, George</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxeastmangeorge' class='startofrange'><primary>Eastman, George</primary></indexterm>
<para>
The technological change that made mass photography possible
didn't happen until 1888, and was the creation of a single man. George
popular has been selected by a very democratic process of
peer-generated rankings.
</para>
-<indexterm id="idxwinerdave" class='startofrange'><primary>Winer, Dave</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
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</para>
<indexterm startref='idxblogs1' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm startref="idxwinerdave" class='endofrange'/>
-<indexterm id="idxbrownjohnseely" class='startofrange'><primary>Brown, John Seely</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id='idxbrownjohnseely' class='startofrange'><primary>Brown, John Seely</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxadvertising1' class='startofrange'><primary>advertising</primary></indexterm>
<para>
<emphasis role='strong'>John Seely Brown</emphasis> is the chief
<chapter label="3" id="catalogs">
<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='idxrensselaer' class='startofrange'><primary>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)</primary></indexterm>
<para>
<emphasis role='strong'>In the fall</emphasis> of 2002, Jesse Jordan
of Oceanside, New York, enrolled as a freshman at Rensselaer