X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/text-free-culture-lessig.git/blobdiff_plain/2a13181086716c4baa598ff08445a7cb179d1cf2..e05056c20e6db7058278121af557042f6a61d37c:/freeculture.xml diff --git a/freeculture.xml b/freeculture.xml index d43d001..2e0b6a5 100644 --- a/freeculture.xml +++ b/freeculture.xml @@ -1285,6 +1285,9 @@ context the current battles about behavior labeled piracy. animated cartoons + + cartoon films + In 1928, a cartoon character was born. An early Mickey Mouse made his debut in May of that year, in a silent flop called Plane Crazy. @@ -1483,6 +1486,7 @@ to now be free for the next Walt Disney to build upon without permission. Yet today, the public domain is presumptive only for content from before the Great Depression. + Of course, Walt Disney had no monopoly on Walt Disney creativity. Nor does America. The norm of free culture has, until recently, and @@ -7311,6 +7315,7 @@ to video stores. The video stores displayed the trailers as a way to sell videos. Video Pipeline got the trailers from the film distributors, put the trailers on tape, and sold the tapes to the retail stores. +browsing The company did this for about fifteen years. Then, in 1997, it began to think about the Internet as another way to distribute these @@ -7370,6 +7375,7 @@ control. The technology expands the scope of effective control, because the technology builds a copy into every transaction. Barnes & Noble +browsing No doubt, a potential is not yet an abuse, and so the potential for @@ -13449,6 +13455,9 @@ before.
Rebuilding Freedoms Previously Presumed: Examples + + browsing + If you step back from the battle I've been describing here, you will recognize this problem from other contexts. Think about @@ -13501,6 +13510,7 @@ you. If it becomes simple to gather and sort who does what in electronic spaces, then the friction-induced privacy of yesterday disappears. + It is this reality that explains the push of many to define privacy on the Internet. It is the recognition that technology can remove what