<abbrev>"freeculture"</abbrev>
- <subtitle>HOW BIG MEDIA USES TECHNOLOGY AND THE LAW TO LOCK DOWN
- CULTURE AND CONTROL CREATIVITY</subtitle>
+ <subtitle>How big media uses technology and the law to lock down
+ culture and control creativity</subtitle>
<pubdate>2004-03-25</pubdate>
+ <edition>1</edition>
+
<releaseinfo>Version 2004-02-10</releaseinfo>
<authorgroup>
</para>
<para>
-This version of <citetitle>Free Culture</citetitle> is licensed under
-a Creative Commons license. This license permits non-commercial use of
-this work, so long as attribution is given. For more information
-about the license, click the icon above, or visit
+This book is licensed under a Creative Commons license. This license
+permits non-commercial use of this work, so long as attribution is
+given. For more information about the license visit
<ulink url="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/1.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/1.0/</ulink>
</para>
</legalnotice>
<abstract>
- <title>ABOUT THE AUTHOR</title>
+ <title>About the author</title>
<para>
-LAWRENCE LESSIG
+Lawrence Lessig
(<ulink url="http://www.lessig.org">http://www.lessig.org</ulink>),
professor of law and a John A. Wilson Distinguished Faculty Scholar
at Stanford Law School, is founder of the Stanford Center for Internet
-->
</mediaobject>
- <biblioid class="isbn">978-82-92812-XX-Y</biblioid>
+ <biblioid class="isbn">978-82-8067-010-6</biblioid>
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+ <biblioid class="uri">http://free-culture.cc/</biblioid>
+
</bookinfo>
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<dedication id="alsobylessig">
<!-- PAGE BREAK 7 -->
<dedication><title></title>
<!-- FIXME figure out how to do this better in dblatex and docbook-xsl -->
-<?latex {\Huge \centering ?>
+<?latex {\Huge \centering
+?>
<para>
To Eric Eldred — whose work first drew me to this cause, and for whom
it continues still.
</para>
-<?latex } ?>
+<?latex } % \Huge \centering
+?>
</dedication>
<toc id="toc"></toc>
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<preface id="preface">
-<title>PREFACE</title>
+<title>Preface</title>
<indexterm id='idxpoguedavid' class='startofrange'><primary>Pogue, David</primary></indexterm>
<para>
<emphasis role="bold">At the end</emphasis> of his review of my first
<!-- PAGE BREAK 15 -->
<!-- PAGE BREAK 16 -->
-<chapter label="0" id="c-introduction">
-<title>INTRODUCTION</title>
+<chapter label="" id="c-introduction">
+<title>Introduction</title>
<indexterm id='idxwrightbrothers' class='startofrange'><primary>Wright brothers</primary></indexterm>
<para>
<emphasis role="strong">On December 17</emphasis>, 1903, on a windy North Carolina beach for just
</chapter>
<!-- PAGE BREAK 29 -->
<part id="c-piracy">
-<title><quote>PIRACY</quote></title>
+<title><quote>Piracy</quote></title>
<partintro>
<!-- PAGE BREAK 30 -->
<indexterm><primary>copyright law</primary><secondary>English</secondary></indexterm>
<!-- PAGE BREAK 34 -->
<chapter label="1" id="creators">
-<title>Creators</title>
+<title>Chapter One: Creators</title>
<indexterm id='idxanimatedcartoons' class='startofrange'><primary>animated cartoons</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxcartoonfilms' class='startofrange'><primary>cartoon films</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxfilmsanimated' class='startofrange'><primary>films</primary><secondary>animated</secondary></indexterm>
<!-- PAGE BREAK 44 -->
</chapter>
<chapter label="2" id="mere-copyists">
-<title><quote>Mere Copyists</quote></title>
+<title>Chapter Two: <quote>Mere Copyists</quote></title>
<indexterm><primary>Daguerre, Louis</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxcameratechnology' class='startofrange'><primary>camera technology</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxphotography' class='startofrange'><primary>photography</primary></indexterm>
<!-- PAGE BREAK 61 -->
</chapter>
<chapter label="3" id="catalogs">
-<title>Catalogs</title>
+<title>Chapter Three: Catalogs</title>
<indexterm><primary>Jordan, Jesse</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>RPI</primary><see>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)</see></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxrensselaer' class='startofrange'><primary>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)</primary></indexterm>
<!-- PAGE BREAK 66 -->
</chapter>
<chapter label="4" id="pirates">
-<title><quote>Pirates</quote></title>
+<title>Chapter Four: <quote>Pirates</quote></title>
<indexterm id='idxpiracyindevelopmentofcontentindustry' class='startofrange'><primary>piracy</primary><secondary>in development of content industry</secondary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary><quote>if value, then right</quote> theory</primary></indexterm>
<para>
</section>
</chapter>
<chapter label="5" id="piracy">
-<title><quote>Piracy</quote></title>
+<title>Chapter Five: <quote>Piracy</quote></title>
<para>
<emphasis role='strong'>There is piracy</emphasis> of copyrighted
material. Lots of it. This piracy comes in many forms. The most
</chapter>
</part>
<part id="c-property">
-<title><quote>PROPERTY</quote></title>
+<title><quote>Property</quote></title>
<partintro>
<para>
<!-- PAGE BREAK 96 -->
<chapter label="6" id="founders">
-<title>Founders</title>
+<title>Chapter Six: Founders</title>
<indexterm id='idxbooksenglishcopyrightlawdevelopedfor' class='startofrange'><primary>books</primary><secondary>English copyright law developed for</secondary></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxcopyrightlawdevelopmentof' class='startofrange'><primary>copyright law</primary><secondary>development of</secondary></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxcopyrightlawenglish' class='startofrange'><primary>copyright law</primary><secondary>English</secondary></indexterm>
<!-- PAGE BREAK 106 -->
</chapter>
<chapter label="7" id="recorders">
-<title>Recorders</title>
+<title>Chapter Seven: Recorders</title>
<indexterm id='idxcopyrightlawfairuseand' class='startofrange'><primary>copyright law</primary><secondary>fair use and</secondary></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxdocumentaryfilm' class='startofrange'><primary>documentary film</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxelsejon' class='startofrange'><primary>Else, Jon</primary></indexterm>
<!-- PAGE BREAK 111 -->
</chapter>
<chapter label="8" id="transformers">
-<title>Transformers</title>
+<title>Chapter Eight: Transformers</title>
<indexterm><primary>Allen, Paul</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxalbenalex1' class='startofrange'><primary>Alben, Alex</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Microsoft</primary></indexterm>
<!-- PAGE BREAK 119 -->
</chapter>
<chapter label="9" id="collectors">
-<title>Collectors</title>
+<title>Chapter Nine: Collectors</title>
<indexterm id='idxarchivesdigital1' class='startofrange'><primary>archives, digital</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>bots</primary></indexterm>
<para>
<!-- PAGE BREAK 127 -->
</chapter>
<chapter label="10" id="property-i">
-<title><quote>Property</quote></title>
+<title>Chapter Ten: <quote>Property</quote></title>
<indexterm><primary>Johnson, Lyndon</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Kennedy, John F.</primary></indexterm>
<para>
weaken the right or regulation. I represented it with this diagram:
</para>
<figure id="fig-1331">
-<title>How four different modalities of regulation interact to support or weaken the right or regulation.</title>
+<title></title>
<graphic fileref="images/1331.svg" align="center" width="50%"></graphic>
</figure>
<indexterm><primary>Madonna</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm startref='idxdrivingspeedconstraintson' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm startref='idxspeedingconstraintson' class='endofrange'/>
<figure id="fig-1361">
-<title>Law has a special role in affecting the three.</title>
+<title></title>
<graphic fileref="images/1361.svg" align="center" width="50%"></graphic>
</figure>
Internet:
</para>
<figure id="fig-1371">
-<title>Copyright's regulation before the Internet.</title>
+<title></title>
<graphic fileref="images/1331.svg" align="center" width="50%"></graphic>
</figure>
looting that results.
</para>
<figure id="fig-1381">
-<title>effective state of anarchy after the Internet.</title>
+<title></title>
<graphic fileref="images/1381.svg" align="center" width="50%"></graphic>
</figure>
started here:
</para>
<figure id="fig-1441">
-<title>Copyright's regulation before the Internet.</title>
+<title></title>
<graphic fileref="images/1331.svg" align="center" width="50%"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
We will end here:
</para>
<figure id="fig-1442">
-<title><quote>Copyright</quote> today.</title>
+<title></title>
<graphic fileref="images/1442.svg" align="center" width="50%"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
empty circle.
</para>
<figure id="fig-1521">
-<title>All potential uses of a book.</title>
+<title></title>
<graphic fileref="images/1521.svg" align="center" width="40%"></graphic>
</figure>
<indexterm id='idxbooksthreetypesofusesof' class='startofrange'><primary>books</primary><secondary>three types of uses of</secondary></indexterm>
acts do not make a copy.
</para>
<figure id="fig-1531">
-<title>Examples of unregulated uses of a book.</title>
+<title></title>
<graphic fileref="images/1531.png" align="center" width="40%"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
is therefore regulated by copyright law. Indeed, this particular use stands
at the core of this circle of possible uses of a copyrighted work. It is the
paradigmatic use properly regulated by copyright regulation (see
-diagram in <xref linkend="fig-1541"/>).
+diagram in figure <xref xrefstyle="template:%n" linkend="fig-1541"/>).
</para>
<indexterm startref='idxderivativeworkspiracyvs4' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm startref='idxpiracyderivativeworkvs4' class='endofrange'/>
</para>
<!-- PAGE BREAK 153 -->
<figure id="fig-1541">
-<title>Republishing stands at the core of this circle of possible uses of a copyrighted work.</title>
+<title></title>
<graphic fileref="images/1541.svg" align="center" width="40%"></graphic>
</figure>
<indexterm><primary>Constitution, U.S.</primary><secondary>First Amendment to</secondary></indexterm>
for public policy (and possibly First Amendment) reasons.
</para>
<figure id="fig-1542">
-<title>Unregulated copying considered <quote>fair uses.</quote></title>
+<title></title>
<graphic fileref="images/1542.svg" align="center" width="40%"></graphic>
</figure>
<indexterm id='idxcopyrightusagerestrictionsattachedto' class='startofrange'><primary>copyright</primary><secondary>usage restrictions attached to</secondary></indexterm>
copyright owner's wish.
</para>
<figure id="fig-1551">
-<title>Uses that before were presumptively unregulated are now presumptively regulated.</title>
+<title></title>
<graphic fileref="images/1551.svg" align="center" width="40%"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
technology.
</para>
<para>
-In <xref linkend="fig-example-adobe-ebook-reader"/> is a picture of an old version of my
-Adobe eBook Reader.
+In figure
+<xref xrefstyle="template:%n" linkend="fig-example-adobe-ebook-reader"/>
+is a picture of an old version of my Adobe eBook Reader.
</para>
<para>
As you can see, I have a small collection of e-books within this
a button at the bottom called Permissions.
</para>
<figure id="fig-example-adobe-ebook-reader">
-<title>Picture of an old version of Adobe eBook Reader</title>
+<title></title>
<graphic fileref="images/example-adobe-ebook-reader.png" align="center" width="50%"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
permissions that the publisher purports to grant with this book.
</para>
<figure id="fig-1612">
-<title>List of the permissions that the publisher purports to grant.</title>
+<title></title>
<graphic fileref="images/1612.png" align="center" width="50%"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
translation): Aristotle's <citetitle>Politics</citetitle>.
</para>
<figure id="fig-1621">
-<title>E-book of Aristotle's <quote>Politics</quote></title>
+<title></title>
<graphic fileref="images/1621.png" align="center" width="50%"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
the book.
</para>
<figure id="fig-1622">
-<title>List of the permissions for Aristotle's <quote>Politics</quote>.</title>
+<title></title>
<graphic fileref="images/1622.png" align="center" width="50%"></graphic>
</figure>
<indexterm><primary>Future of Ideas, The (Lessig)</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<!-- PAGE BREAK 162 -->
<figure id="fig-1631">
-<title>List of the permissions for <quote>The Future of Ideas</quote>.</title>
+<title></title>
<graphic fileref="images/1631.png" align="center" width="50%"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
following report:
</para>
<figure id="fig-1641">
-<title>List of the permissions for <quote>Alice's Adventures in
-Wonderland</quote>.</title>
+<title></title>
<graphic fileref="images/1641.png" align="center" width="50%"></graphic>
</figure>
<!-- PAGE BREAK 164-->
the VCR responsible.
</para>
<para>
-This led Conrad to draw the cartoon in
-<xref linkend="fig-1711-vcr-handgun-cartoonfig"/>, which we can adopt
-to the DMCA.
+This led Conrad to draw the cartoon in figure
+<xref xrefstyle="template:%n"
+linkend="fig-1711-vcr-handgun-cartoonfig"/>, which we can adopt to the
+DMCA.
<indexterm><primary>Conrad, Paul</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<para>
and bad uses.
</para>
<figure id="fig-1711-vcr-handgun-cartoonfig" float="1">
-<title>VCR/handgun cartoon.</title>
+<title>— On which item have the courts ruled that manufacturers and
+retailers be held responsible for having supplied the
+equipment?</title>
<graphic fileref="images/1711.png" align="center" width="100%"></graphic>
</figure>
<indexterm><primary>Conrad, Paul</primary></indexterm>
pattern better than a thousand words could do:
</para>
<figure id="fig-1761-pattern-modern-media-ownership">
-<title>Pattern of modern media ownership.</title>
+<title></title>
<graphic fileref="images/pattern-modern-media-ownership.png" align="center" width="90%"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
</chapter>
</part>
<part id="c-puzzles">
-<title>PUZZLES</title>
+<title>Puzzles</title>
<!-- PAGE BREAK 186 -->
<chapter label="11" id="chimera">
-<title>Chimera</title>
+<title>Chapter Eleven: Chimera</title>
<indexterm id='idxchimera' class='startofrange'><primary>chimeras</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxwells' class='startofrange'><primary>Wells, H. G.</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxtcotb' class='startofrange'><primary><quote>Country of the Blind, The</quote> (Wells)</primary></indexterm>
<!-- PAGE BREAK 192 -->
</chapter>
<chapter label="12" id="harms">
-<title>Harms</title>
+<title>Chapter Twelve: Harms</title>
<para>
<emphasis role='strong'>To fight</emphasis> <quote>piracy,</quote> to
protect <quote>property,</quote> the content industry has launched a
</chapter>
</part>
<part id="c-balances">
-<title>BALANCES</title>
+<title>Balances</title>
<partintro>
<!-- PAGE BREAK 218 -->
<!-- PAGE BREAK 220 -->
<chapter label="13" id="eldred">
-<title>Eldred</title>
+<title>Chapter Thirteen: Eldred</title>
<indexterm id='idxeldrederic' class='startofrange'><primary>Eldred, Eric</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxhawthornenathaniel' class='startofrange'><primary>Hawthorne, Nathaniel</primary></indexterm>
<para>
<para>
The best responses were in the cartoons. There was a gaggle of
hilarious images—of Mickey in jail and the like. The best, from
-my view of the case, was Ruben Bolling's, reproduced in
-<xref linkend="fig-18"/>. The <quote>powerful and wealthy</quote> line is a bit
-unfair. But the punch in the face felt exactly like that.
+my view of the case, was Ruben Bolling's, reproduced in figure
+<xref xrefstyle="template:%n" linkend="fig-18"/>. The <quote>powerful
+and wealthy</quote> line is a bit unfair. But the punch in the face
+felt exactly like that.
<indexterm><primary>Bolling, Ruben</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<figure id="fig-18" float="1">
-<title>Tom the Dancing Bug cartoon</title>
+<title></title>
<graphic fileref="images/tom-the-dancing-bug.png" align="center" width="100%"></graphic>
<indexterm><primary>Bolling, Ruben</primary></indexterm>
</figure>
<!-- PAGE BREAK 254 -->
</chapter>
<chapter label="14" id="eldred-ii">
-<title>Eldred II</title>
+<title>Chapter Fourteen: Eldred II</title>
<para>
<emphasis role='strong'>The day</emphasis>
<citetitle>Eldred</citetitle> was decided, fate would have it that I
<!-- PAGE BREAK 264 -->
</chapter>
</part>
-<chapter label="15" id="c-conclusion">
-<title>CONCLUSION</title>
+<chapter label="" id="c-conclusion">
+<title>Conclusion</title>
<indexterm id='idxafricamedicationsforhivpatientsin' class='startofrange'><primary>Africa, medications for HIV patients in</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxaidsmedications' class='startofrange'><primary>AIDS medications</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm id='idxantiretroviraldrugs' class='startofrange'><primary>antiretroviral drugs</primary></indexterm>
</para>
</chapter>
-<chapter label="16" id="c-afterword">
-<title>AFTERWORD</title>
+<chapter label="" id="c-afterword">
+<title>Afterword</title>
<para>
<!-- PAGE BREAK 280 -->
<!-- PAGE BREAK 281 -->
<section id="usnow">
-<title>US, NOW</title>
+<title>Us, now</title>
<para>
<emphasis role='strong'>Common sense</emphasis> is with the copyright
warriors because the debate so far has been framed at the
</section>
</section>
<section id="themsoon">
-<title>THEM, SOON</title>
+<title>Them, soon</title>
<para>
<emphasis role='strong'>We will</emphasis> not reclaim a free culture
by individual action alone. It will also take important reforms of
<!-- PAGE BREAK 294 -->
<section id="registration">
-<title>REGISTRATION AND RENEWAL</title>
+<title>Registration and renewal</title>
<para>
Under the old system, a copyright owner had to file a registration
with the Copyright Office to register or renew a copyright. When
</section>
<section id="marking">
-<title>MARKING</title>
+<title>Marking</title>
<para>
It used to be that the failure to include a copyright notice on a
creative work meant that the copyright was forfeited. That was a harsh
</section>
</section>
</chapter>
-<chapter label="17" id="c-notes">
-<title>NOTES</title>
+<chapter label="" id="c-notes">
+<title>Notes</title>
<para>
Throughout this text, there are references to links on the World Wide
Web. As anyone who has tried to use the Web knows, these links can be
</para>
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-<?latex \theendnotes ?>
+<?latex \theendnotes
+?>
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</chapter>
-<chapter label="18" id="c-acknowledgments">
-<title>ACKNOWLEDGMENTS</title>
+<chapter label="" id="c-acknowledgments">
+<title>Acknowledgments</title>
<para>
This book is the product of a long and as yet unsuccessful struggle that
began when I read of Eric Eldred's war to keep books free. Eldred's
</chapter>
<index></index>
<colophon>
-<?latex {\footnotesize ?>
+<!--
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+conventional Colophon page. The disadvantage is a useless blank page
+where the empty chapter title is printed.
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+<title></title>
+<?latex {\centering
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<para>
Free culture: How big media uses technology and the law to lock down
culture and control creativity / Lawrence Lessig.
</para>
<para>
-Copyright © Lawrence Lessig. Some rights reserved.
+Copyright © 2004 Lawrence Lessig. Some rights reserved.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+<ulink url="http://free-culture.cc/"/>
</para>
+
<para>
-This version of <citetitle>Free Culture</citetitle> is licensed under
-a Creative Commons license. This license permits non-commercial use of
-this work, so long as attribution is given. For more information
-about the license visit
+This book is licensed under a Creative Commons license. This license
+permits non-commercial use of this work, so long as attribution is
+given. For more information about the license visit
<ulink url="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/1.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/1.0/</ulink>
</para>
+
<para>
-This digital book was published by Petter Reinholdtsen in 2015. The
-original hardcover paper book was published in 2004 by The Penguin
-Press.
+Published 2015 by Petter Reinholdtsen in his spare time. First
+published 2004 by The Penguin Press. Thomas Gramstad Forlag donated
+the ISBN numbers.
</para>
+
<para>
Excerpt from an editorial titled <quote>The Coming of Copyright
Perpetuity,</quote> <citetitle>The New York Times</citetitle>, January
with permission.
</para>
<para>
-Cartoon in <xref linkend="fig-1711-vcr-handgun-cartoonfig"/> by Paul
-Conrad, copyright Tribune Media Services, Inc. All rights
+Cartoon in figure
+<xref xrefstyle="template:%n" linkend="fig-1711-vcr-handgun-cartoonfig"/> by
+Paul Conrad, copyright Tribune Media Services, Inc. All rights
reserved. Reprinted with permission.
</para>
<para>
-Diagram in <xref linkend="fig-1761-pattern-modern-media-ownership"/>
+Diagram in figure
+<xref xrefstyle="template:%n" linkend="fig-1761-pattern-modern-media-ownership"/>
courtesy of the office of FCC Commissioner, Michael J. Copps.
</para>
-<para>
-The source of this version of the book is written using DocBook
-notation and the other formats are derived from the DocBook source.
-The DocBook source is based on a DocBook XML version created by Hans
-Schou, and extended by Petter Reinholdtsen with formatting and index
-references. The source files for this book are available from
-<ulink url="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig"/>.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-&translationblock;
-</para>
-
<para>
Includes index.
</para>
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+
+<para>
+The book source is in DocBook notation and the other formats are
+derived from this. The source is based on a version from Hans Schou.
+Typeset using Crimson Text and formatted using dblatex. Many thanks
+to the dblatex developer BenoƮt Guillon for his help. The source is
+available from
+<ulink url="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig"/>.
+Please report any problems using the GitHub issue tracker.
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+
+<para>
+&translationblock;
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