X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/text-free-culture-lessig.git/blobdiff_plain/db647654b0797f51450827c88e73625b7b8e049b..94507d9aa5b80c7e3aaacf2f8e100c78ceae26a6:/freeculture.xml diff --git a/freeculture.xml b/freeculture.xml index 7e2fb45..fd94042 100644 --- a/freeculture.xml +++ b/freeculture.xml @@ -11059,6 +11059,7 @@ success will require. CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Eldred +Eldred, Eric Hawthorne, Nathaniel In 1995, a father was frustrated @@ -11069,6 +11070,8 @@ Hampshire, decided to put Hawthorne on the Web. An electronic version, Eldred thought, with links to pictures and explanatory text, would make this nineteenth-century author's work come alive. +librariesof public-domain literature +public domainlibrary of works derived from It didn't work—at least for his daughters. They didn't find Hawthorne any more interesting than before. But Eldred's experiment @@ -11089,6 +11092,7 @@ accessible to the twentieth century, Eldred transformed Hawthorne, and many others, into a form more accessible—technically accessible—today. +Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne) Eldred's freedom to do this with Hawthorne's work grew from the same source as Disney's. Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter had passed into the @@ -11132,6 +11136,13 @@ world before the Internet were extremely few. Yet one would think it at least as important to protect the Eldreds of the world as to protect noncommercial pornographers. +Congress, U.S.copyright terms extended by +copyrightduration of +copyright lawterm extensions in +Frost, Robert +New Hampshire (Frost) +patentsin public domain +patentsfuture patents vs. future copyrights in As I said, Eldred lives in New Hampshire. In 1998, Robert Frost's collection of poems New Hampshire was slated to @@ -11146,8 +11157,12 @@ would pass into the public domain until that year (and not even then, if Congress extends the term again). By contrast, in the same period, more than 1 million patents will pass into the public domain. + + Bono, Mary Bono, Sonny +copyrightin perpetuity +Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) (1998) @@ -11166,8 +11181,12 @@ you know, there is also Jack Valenti's proposal for a term to last forever less one day. Perhaps the Committee may look at that next Congress, 144 Cong. Rec. H9946, 9951-2 (October 7, 1998). - + +copyright lawfelony punishment for infringement of +NET (No Electronic Theft) Act (1998) +No Electronic Theft (NET) Act (1998) +peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharingfelony punishments for Eldred decided to fight this law. He first resolved to fight it through civil disobedience. In a series of interviews, Eldred announced that he @@ -11177,6 +11196,11 @@ of publishing would make Eldred a felon—whether or not anyone complained. This was a dangerous strategy for a disabled programmer to undertake. + +Congress, U.S.constitutional powers of +Constitution, U.S.Progress Clause of +Progress Clause +Lessig, LawrenceEldred case involvement of It was here that I became involved in Eldred's battle. I was a constitutional @@ -11194,6 +11218,7 @@ by securing for limited Times to Authors … exclusive Right to their … Writings. … + As I've described, this clause is unique within the power-granting clause of Article I, section 8 of our Constitution. Every other clause @@ -11204,6 +11229,9 @@ specific—to promote … Progress—through means t are also specific— by securing exclusive Rights (i.e., copyrights) for limited Times. + + + Jaszi, Peter In the past forty years, Congress has gotten into the practice of @@ -11216,6 +11244,9 @@ Congress has the power to extend its term, then Congress can achieve what the Constitution plainly forbids—perpetual terms on the installment plan, as Professor Peter Jaszi so nicely put it. + + +Lessig, LawrenceEldred case involvement of As an academic, my first response was to hit the books. I remember sitting late at the office, scouring on-line databases for any serious @@ -11361,6 +11392,9 @@ constitutional requirement that terms be limited. If they could extend it once, they would extend it again and again and again. + + + It was also my judgment that this Supreme Court would not allow Congress to extend existing terms. As anyone close to