<figure id="CreativeCommons">
<title>Creative Commons, Some rights reserved</title>
-<graphic fileref="webcc.gif"></graphic>
+<graphic fileref="images/cc.png"></graphic>
</figure>
<toc id="toc"></toc>
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-To answer these questions, we need a more general way to talk
-about how property is protected. More precisely, we need a more
- general
-way than the narrow language of the law allows. In Code and Other
-Laws of Cyberspace, I used a simple model to capture this more general
-perspective. For any particular right or regulation, this model asks how
-four different modalities of regulation interact to support or weaken
-the right or regulation. I represented it with this diagram:
+To answer these questions, we need a more general way to talk about
+how property is protected. More precisely, we need a more general way
+than the narrow language of the law allows. In Code and Other Laws of
+Cyberspace, I used a simple model to capture this more general
+perspective. For any particular right or regulation, this model asks
+how four different modalities of regulation interact to support or
+weaken the right or regulation. I represented it with this diagram:
</para>
<figure id="fig-1331">
-<title></title>
-<graphic fileref="1331.jpg"></graphic>
+<title>How four different modalities of regulation interact to support or weaken the right or regulation.</title>
+<graphic fileref="images/1331.png"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
At the center of this picture is a regulated dot: the individual or
example--so as to decrease the attractiveness of fast driving.
</para>
<figure id="fig-1361">
-<title></title>
-<graphic fileref="1361.jpg"></graphic>
+<title>Law has a special role in affecting the three.</title>
+<graphic fileref="images/1361.png"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
These constraints can thus change, and they can be changed. To
-understand the effective protection of liberty or protection of property
-at any particular moment, we must track these changes over time. A
- restriction
-imposed by one modality might be erased by another. A
- freedom
-enabled by one modality might be displaced by another.<footnote><para>
+understand the effective protection of liberty or protection of
+property at any particular moment, we must track these changes over
+time. A restriction imposed by one modality might be erased by
+another. A freedom enabled by one modality might be displaced by
+another.<footnote><para>
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Some people object to this way of talking about "liberty." They object
because
Internet:
</para>
<figure id="fig-1371">
-<title></title>
-<graphic fileref="1371.jpg"></graphic>
+<title>Copyright's regulation before the Internet.</title>
+<graphic fileref="images/1331.png"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
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looting that results.
</para>
<figure id="fig-1381">
-<title></title>
-<graphic fileref="1381.jpg"></graphic>
+<title>effective state of anarchy after the Internet.</title>
+<graphic fileref="images/1381.png"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
Neither this analysis nor the conclusions that follow are new to the
started here:
</para>
<figure id="fig-1441">
-<title></title>
-<graphic fileref="1441.jpg"></graphic>
+<title>Copyright's regulation before the Internet.</title>
+<graphic fileref="images/1331.png"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
We will end here:
</para>
<figure id="fig-1442">
-<title></title>
-<graphic fileref="1442.jpg"></graphic>
+<title>"Copyright" today.</title>
+<graphic fileref="images/1442.png"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
Let me explain how.
empty circle.
</para>
<figure id="fig-1521">
-<title></title>
-<graphic fileref="1521.jpg"></graphic>
+<title>All potential uses of a book.</title>
+<graphic fileref="images/1521.png"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
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-Think about a book in real space, and imagine this circle to
- represent
-all its potential uses. Most of these uses are unregulated by copyright
-law, because the uses don't create a copy. If you read a book, that act is not
-regulated by copyright law. If you give someone the book, that act is
-not regulated by copyright law. If you resell a book, that act is not
- regulated
-(copyright law expressly states that after the first sale of a book,
-the copyright owner can impose no further conditions on the
- disposition
-of the book). If you sleep on the book or use it to hold up a lamp or
-let your puppy chew it up, those acts are not regulated by copyright law,
-because those acts do not make a copy.
+Think about a book in real space, and imagine this circle to represent
+all its potential uses. Most of these uses are unregulated by
+copyright law, because the uses don't create a copy. If you read a
+book, that act is not regulated by copyright law. If you give someone
+the book, that act is not regulated by copyright law. If you resell a
+book, that act is not regulated (copyright law expressly states that
+after the first sale of a book, the copyright owner can impose no
+further conditions on the disposition of the book). If you sleep on
+the book or use it to hold up a lamp or let your puppy chew it up,
+those acts are not regulated by copyright law, because those acts do
+not make a copy.
</para>
<figure id="fig-1531">
-<title></title>
-<graphic fileref="1531.jpg"></graphic>
+<title>Examples of unregulated uses of a book.</title>
+<graphic fileref="images/1531.png"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
Obviously, however, some uses of a copyrighted book are regulated
</para>
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<figure id="fig-1541">
-<title></title>
-<graphic fileref="1541.jpg"></graphic>
+<title>Republishing stands at the core of this circle of possible uses of a copyrighted work.</title>
+<graphic fileref="images/1541.png"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
These are uses that themselves involve copying, but which the law treats
policy (and possibly First Amendment) reasons.
</para>
<figure id="fig-1542">
-<title></title>
-<graphic fileref="1542.jpg"></graphic>
+<title>Unregulated copying considered "fair uses."</title>
+<graphic fileref="images/1542.png"></graphic>
</figure>
<para> </para>
<figure id="fig-1551">
-<title></title>
-<graphic fileref="1551.jpg"></graphic>
+<title>Uses that before were presumptively unregulated are now presumptively regulated.</title>
+<graphic fileref="images/1551.png"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
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called Permissions.
</para>
<figure id="fig-1611">
-<title>Acrobat eBook Reader</title>
-<graphic fileref="1611.jpg"></graphic>
+<title>Picture of an old version of Adobe eBook Reader</title>
+<graphic fileref="images/1611.png"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
-If you click on the Permissions button, you'll see a list of the
- permissions
-that the publisher purports to grant with this book.
+If you click on the Permissions button, you'll see a list of the
+permissions that the publisher purports to grant with this book.
</para>
<figure id="fig-1612">
<title></title>
-<graphic fileref="1612.jpg"></graphic>
+<graphic fileref="images/1612.png"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
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computer.
</para>
<para>
-Here's the e-book for another
-work in the public domain
- (including
-the translation):
- Aristotle's
-Politics.
+Here's the e-book for another work in the public domain (including the
+translation): Aristotle's Politics.
</para>
<figure id="fig-1621">
-<title></title>
-<graphic fileref="1621.jpg"></graphic>
+<title>E-book of Aristotle;s "Politics"</title>
+<graphic fileref="images/1621.png"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
According to its permissions, no printing or copying is permitted
the book.
</para>
<figure id="fig-1622">
-<title></title>
-<graphic fileref="1622.jpg"></graphic>
+<title>List of the permissions for Aristotle;s "Politics".</title>
+<graphic fileref="images/1622.png"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
Finally (and most embarrassingly), here are the permissions for the
</para>
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<figure id="fig-1631">
-<title></title>
-<graphic fileref="1631.jpg"></graphic>
+<title>List of the permissions for "The Future of Ideas".</title>
+<graphic fileref="images/1631.png"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
No copying, no printing, and don't you dare try to listen to this book!
Permissions for that book, you got the following report:
</para>
<figure id="fig-1641">
-<title></title>
-<graphic fileref="1641.jpg"></graphic>
+<title>List of the permissions for "Alice's Adventures in
+Wonderland".</title>
+<graphic fileref="images/1641.png"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
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and bad uses.
</para>
<figure id="fig-1711">
-<title></title>
-<graphic fileref="1711.jpg"></graphic>
+<title>VCR/handgun cartoon.</title>
+<graphic fileref="images/1711.png"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
The obvious point of Conrad's cartoon is the weirdness of a world
pattern better than a thousand words could do:
</para>
<figure id="fig-1761">
-<title></title>
-<graphic fileref="1761.jpg"></graphic>
+<title>Pattern of modern media ownership.</title>
+<graphic fileref="images/1761.png"></graphic>
</figure>
<para>
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