X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/text-free-culture-lessig.git/blobdiff_plain/bd9add788c9a7b5d075d6dbb6f9830c5b2a68a8f..8b2f6496085b4a7a24e9c8326ad7190f061f367d:/freeculture.xml diff --git a/freeculture.xml b/freeculture.xml index a524a5d..12ce7dd 100644 --- a/freeculture.xml +++ b/freeculture.xml @@ -2311,6 +2311,9 @@ entertainment is tragedy. ABC CBS +Cyber Rights (Godwin) +Godwin, Mike +Internetnews events on But in addition to this produced news about the tragedy of September 11, those of us tied to the Internet came to see a very different @@ -2358,6 +2361,7 @@ such as in Japan, it functions very much like a diary. In those cultures, it records private facts in a public way—it's a kind of electronic Jerry Springer, available anywhere in the world. + political discourse Internetpublic discourse conducted on @@ -3984,6 +3988,7 @@ cassette recording is a good example. As a study by Cap Gemini Ernst technology, the labels fought it. cassette recording +DAT (digital audio tape) See Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Technology Evolution and the Music Industry's Business Model Crisis (2003), 3. This report describes the music industry's effort to stigmatize the budding @@ -4322,6 +4327,7 @@ companies the right to the content, so long as they paid the statutory price. +copyright lawtwo central goals of @@ -4377,6 +4383,7 @@ for the architecture it chose. Congress, U.S.on copyright laws Congress, U.S.on VCR technology +Valenti, Jackon VCR technology MPAA president Jack Valenti became the studios' most vocal champion. Valenti called VCRs tapeworms. He warned, When there are @@ -4437,6 +4444,7 @@ technology. Kozinski, Alex + But the Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Ninth Circuit. @@ -4512,6 +4520,7 @@ together, a pattern is clear: In each case throughout our history, a new technology changed the way content was distributed. +DAT (digital audio tape) 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, @@ -6271,7 +6280,7 @@ that Kahle and others would exercise. Chapter Ten: <quote>Property</quote> Johnson, Lyndon Kennedy, John F. -Valenti, Jackbackground of +Valenti, Jackbackground of Jack Valenti has been the president of the Motion Picture Association of America since 1966. He first came @@ -6301,7 +6310,6 @@ in the United States: Walt Disney, Sony Pictures Entertainment, MGM, Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Studios, and Warner Brothers. -Valenti, Jackbackground of Valenti is only the third president of the MPAA. No president before @@ -8805,6 +8813,7 @@ Moyers, 25 April 2003, edited transcript available at +democracymedia concentration and This narrowing has an effect on what is produced. The product of such large and concentrated networks is increasingly homogenous. @@ -8857,6 +8866,7 @@ In addition to the copyright wars, we're in the middle of the drug wars. Government policy is strongly directed against the drug cartels; criminal and civil courts are filled with the consequences of this battle. +criminal justice system Let me hereby disqualify myself from any possible appointment to any position in government by saying I believe this war is a profound @@ -9638,6 +9648,8 @@ statement. You could write a poem to express your love, or you could weave together a string—a mash-up— of songs from your favorite artists in a collage and make it available on the Net. +democracydigital sharing within +Kodak cameras This digital capturing and sharing is in part an extension of the capturing and sharing that has always been integral to our culture, @@ -9701,7 +9713,9 @@ negligently removes the wrong leg in an operation would be liable for no more than $250,000 in damages for pain and suffering. - The bill, modeled after California's tort reform model, was passed in the +tort reform + +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, Measure Stalls in Senate: `We'll Be Back,' Say Tort Reformers, amednews.com, 28 July 2003, available at @@ -11178,6 +11192,7 @@ Sonny Bono, who, his widow, Mary Bono, says, believed that Bono, Mary Bono, Sonny +Valenti, Jackperpetual copyright term proposed by The full text is: 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 @@ -12853,6 +12868,8 @@ Congress allows for those works where its worth is at least $1. But for everything else, let the content go. Forbes, Steve +Democratic Party +Republican Party The reaction to this idea was amazingly strong. Steve Forbes endorsed it in an editorial. I received an avalanche of e-mail and letters @@ -13071,6 +13088,7 @@ introduced. On May 16, I posted on the Eldred Act blog, we are close. There was a general reaction in the blog community that something good might happen here. +Valenti, JackEldred Act opposed by But at this stage, the lobbyists began to intervene. Jack Valenti and the MPAA general counsel came to the congresswoman's office to give @@ -15323,6 +15341,8 @@ controlling access. artistsrecording industry payments to +semiotic democracy +democracysemiotic 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