X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/text-free-culture-lessig.git/blobdiff_plain/ad82ca53a777da7defa60f5b021b7cd7f87bdc3f..e05056c20e6db7058278121af557042f6a61d37c:/freeculture.xml diff --git a/freeculture.xml b/freeculture.xml index 560a556..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 @@ -4557,6 +4561,9 @@ one else could publish copies of a book to which they held the copyright. Prices of the classics were thus kept high; competition to produce better or cheaper editions was eliminated. + + British Parliament + Now, there's something puzzling about the year 1774 to anyone who knows a little about copyright law. The better-known year in the @@ -5017,6 +5024,7 @@ antimonopoly, resistant to the protectionist pleas of publishers. In a world where the Parliament is more pliant, free culture would be less protected. + @@ -5589,6 +5597,7 @@ curse, reserved for the few. archives, digital +bots In April 1996, millions of bots—computer codes designed to @@ -7306,6 +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 @@ -7365,6 +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 @@ -8058,6 +8069,7 @@ never be interfered with by the copyright police. You were free in that space to do as you wished with this part of our culture. You were allowed to build on it as you wished without fear of legal control. +bots But if you moved your club onto the Internet, and made it generally available for others to join, the story would be very different. Bots @@ -13443,6 +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 @@ -13495,6 +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