msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
-"POT-Creation-Date: 2012-07-19 21:43+0300\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2012-07-20 23:47+0300\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
#. f31
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:2010 freeculture.xml:3760 freeculture.xml:4834 freeculture.xml:7964
+#: freeculture.xml:2010 freeculture.xml:3756 freeculture.xml:4830 freeculture.xml:7963
msgid "Ibid."
msgstr ""
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:2120 freeculture.xml:7902
+#: freeculture.xml:2120 freeculture.xml:7901
msgid "ABC"
msgstr ""
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><table><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
-#: freeculture.xml:3025 freeculture.xml:4145
+#: freeculture.xml:3025 freeculture.xml:4141
msgid "Radio"
msgstr ""
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><table><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
-#: freeculture.xml:3104 freeculture.xml:4151
+#: freeculture.xml:3104 freeculture.xml:4147
msgid "Cable TV"
msgstr ""
"alternative to assure the author of his profit."
msgstr ""
-#. f5
+#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><indexterm><primary>
+#: freeculture.xml:3499 freeculture.xml:8030
+msgid "Christensen, Clayton M."
+msgstr ""
+
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3493
+#: freeculture.xml:3491
msgid ""
"See Clayton M. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary "
"National Bestseller That Changed the Way We Do Business (New York: "
"with the most creative, paradigm-shifting uses for their own products. This "
"job usually falls to outside innovators, who reassemble existing technology "
"in inventive ways. For a discussion of Christensen's ideas, see Lawrence "
-"Lessig, Future, 89–92, 139."
+"Lessig, Future, 89–92, 139. <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
+"id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:3504
+#: freeculture.xml:3502
msgid "Fanning, Shawn"
msgstr ""
#. f6
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3512
+#: freeculture.xml:3510
msgid ""
"See Carolyn Lochhead, \"Silicon Valley Dream, Hollywood Nightmare,\" San "
"Francisco Chronicle, 24 September 2002, A1; \"Rock 'n' Roll Suicide,\" New "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3507
+#: freeculture.xml:3505
msgid ""
"The result was spontaneous combustion. Launched in July 1999, Napster "
"amassed over 10 million users within nine months. After eighteen months, "
#. f7
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3536
+#: freeculture.xml:3532
msgid ""
"See Ipsos-Insight, TEMPO: Keeping Pace with Online Music Distribution "
"(September 2002), reporting that 28 percent of Americans aged twelve and "
#. f8
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3545
+#: freeculture.xml:3541
msgid ""
"Amy Harmon, \"Industry Offers a Carrot in Online Music Fight,\" New York "
"Times, 6 June 2003, A1."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3530
+#: freeculture.xml:3526
msgid ""
"According to a number of estimates, a huge proportion of Americans have "
"tasted file-sharing technology. A study by Ipsos-Insight in September 2002 "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3556
+#: freeculture.xml:3552
msgid ""
"Some of this enjoying involves copyright infringement. Some of it does "
"not. And even among the part that is technically copyright infringement, "
#. PAGE BREAK 81
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3566
+#: freeculture.xml:3562
msgid ""
"File sharers share different kinds of content. We can divide these different "
"kinds into four types."
#. A.
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><orderedlist><listitem><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3572
+#: freeculture.xml:3568
msgid ""
"There are some who use sharing networks as substitutes for purchasing "
"content. Thus, when a new Madonna CD is released, rather than buying the CD, "
#. B.
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><orderedlist><listitem><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3585
+#: freeculture.xml:3581
msgid ""
"There are some who use sharing networks to sample music before purchasing "
"it. Thus, a friend sends another friend an MP3 of an artist he's not heard "
#. C.
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><orderedlist><listitem><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3598
+#: freeculture.xml:3594
msgid ""
"There are many who use sharing networks to get access to copyrighted content "
"that is no longer sold or that they would not have purchased because the "
#. PAGE BREAK 82
#. D.
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><orderedlist><listitem><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3619
+#: freeculture.xml:3615
msgid ""
"Finally, there are many who use sharing networks to get access to content "
"that is not copyrighted or that the copyright owner wants to give away."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3625
+#: freeculture.xml:3621
msgid "How do these different types of sharing balance out?"
msgstr ""
#. f9
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3633
+#: freeculture.xml:3629
msgid "See Liebowitz, Rethinking the Network Economy,148–49."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3628
+#: freeculture.xml:3624
msgid ""
"Let's start with some simple but important points. From the perspective of "
"the law, only type D sharing is clearly legal. From the perspective of "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3645
+#: freeculture.xml:3641
msgid ""
"Whether on balance sharing is harmful depends importantly on how harmful "
"type A sharing is. Just as Edison complained about Hollywood, composers "
#. f10
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3663
+#: freeculture.xml:3659
msgid ""
"See Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Technology Evolution and the Music "
"Industry's Business Model Crisis (2003), 3. This report describes the music "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3654
+#: freeculture.xml:3650
msgid ""
"While the numbers do suggest that sharing is harmful, how harmful is harder "
"to reckon. It has long been the recording industry's practice to blame "
#. f11
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3692
+#: freeculture.xml:3688
msgid "U.S. Congress, Copyright and Home Copying, 4."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3684
+#: freeculture.xml:3680
msgid ""
"Yet soon thereafter, and before Congress was given an opportunity to enact "
"regulation, MTV was launched, and the industry had a record turnaround. \"In "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3696
+#: freeculture.xml:3692
msgid ""
"But just because the industry was wrong before does not mean it is wrong "
"today. To evaluate the real threat that p2p sharing presents to the industry "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3706
+#: freeculture.xml:3702
msgid ""
"We start to answer this question by focusing on the net harm, from the "
"standpoint of the industry as a whole, that sharing networks cause. The "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3715
+#: freeculture.xml:3711
msgid ""
"Could that be true? Could the industry as a whole be gaining because of file "
"sharing? Odd as that might sound, the data about CD sales actually suggest "
#. f12
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3725
+#: freeculture.xml:3721
msgid ""
"See Recording Industry Association of America, 2002 Yearend Statistics, "
"available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:3752
+#: freeculture.xml:3748
msgid "Black, Jane"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3749
+#: freeculture.xml:3745
msgid ""
"Jane Black, \"Big Music's Broken Record,\" BusinessWeek online, 13 February "
"2003, available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3721
+#: freeculture.xml:3717
msgid ""
"In 2002, the RIAA reported that CD sales had fallen by 8.9 percent, from 882 "
"million to 803 million units; revenues fell 6.7 percent.<placeholder "
#. PAGE BREAK 84
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3766
+#: freeculture.xml:3762
msgid ""
"But let's assume the RIAA is right, and all of the decline in CD sales is "
"because of Internet sharing. Here's the rub: In the same period that the "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3775
+#: freeculture.xml:3771
msgid ""
"There are too many different things happening at the same time to explain "
"these numbers definitively, but one conclusion is unavoidable: The recording "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3793
+#: freeculture.xml:3789
msgid ""
"These are the harms—alleged and perhaps exaggerated but, let's assume, "
"real. What of the benefits? File sharing may impose costs on the recording "
#. f15
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3806
+#: freeculture.xml:3802
msgid ""
"By one estimate, 75 percent of the music released by the major labels is no "
"longer in print. See Online Entertainment and Copyright Law—Coming "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3800
+#: freeculture.xml:3796
msgid ""
"One benefit is type C sharing—making available content that is "
"technically still under copyright but is no longer commercially available. "
#. f16
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3831
+#: freeculture.xml:3827
msgid ""
"While there are not good estimates of the number of used record stores in "
"existence, in 2002, there were 7,198 used book dealers in the United States, "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3825
+#: freeculture.xml:3821
msgid ""
"In real space—long before the Internet—the market had a simple "
"response to this problem: used book and record stores. There are thousands "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:3852
+#: freeculture.xml:3848
msgid "Bernstein, Leonard"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3854
+#: freeculture.xml:3850
msgid ""
"Type C sharing, then, is very much like used book stores or used record "
"stores. It is different, of course, because the person making the content "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3867
+#: freeculture.xml:3863
msgid ""
"It may well be, all things considered, that it would be better if the "
"copyright owner got something from this trade. But just because it may well "
#. PAGE BREAK 86
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3875
+#: freeculture.xml:3871
msgid ""
"Finally, and perhaps most importantly, file-sharing networks enable type D "
"sharing to occur—the sharing of content that copyright owners want to "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3892
+#: freeculture.xml:3888
msgid ""
"Likewise for work in the public domain: This sharing benefits society with "
"no legal harm to authors at all. If efforts to solve the problem of type A "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3898
+#: freeculture.xml:3894
msgid ""
"The point throughout is this: While the recording industry understandably "
"says, \"This is how much we've lost,\" we must also ask, \"How much has "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3905
+#: freeculture.xml:3901
msgid ""
"For unlike the piracy I described in the first section of this chapter, much "
"of the \"piracy\" that file sharing enables is plainly legal and good. And "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3918
+#: freeculture.xml:3914
msgid ""
"\"But isn't the war just a war against illegal sharing? Isn't the target "
"just what you call type A sharing?\""
#. f17
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3935
+#: freeculture.xml:3931
msgid ""
"See Transcript of Proceedings, In Re: Napster Copyright Litigation at 34- 35 "
"(N.D. Cal., 11 July 2001), nos. MDL-00-1369 MHP, C 99-5183 MHP, available at "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3922
+#: freeculture.xml:3918
msgid ""
"You would think. And we should hope. But so far, it is not. The effect of "
"the war purportedly on type A sharing alone has been felt far beyond that "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3945
+#: freeculture.xml:3941
msgid ""
"If 99.4 percent is not good enough, then this is a war on file-sharing "
"technologies, not a war on copyright infringement. There is no way to assure "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3956
+#: freeculture.xml:3952
msgid ""
"Zero tolerance has not been our history. It has not produced the content "
"industry that we know today. The history of American law has been a process "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3967
+#: freeculture.xml:3963
msgid ""
"So, as we've seen, when \"mechanical reproduction\" threatened the interests "
"of composers, Congress balanced the rights of composers against the "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3980
+#: freeculture.xml:3976
msgid ""
"Cable TV followed the pattern of record albums. When the courts rejected the "
"claim that cable broadcasters had to pay for the content they rebroadcast, "
#. PAGE BREAK 88
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:3990
+#: freeculture.xml:3986
msgid ""
"This compromise, like the compromise affecting records and player pianos, "
"served two important goals—indeed, the two central goals of any "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:4008
+#: freeculture.xml:4004
msgid "Betamax"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4010
+#: freeculture.xml:4006
msgid ""
"In the same year that Congress struck this balance, two major producers and "
"distributors of film content filed a lawsuit against another technology, the "
#. PAGE BREAK 89
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4023
+#: freeculture.xml:4019
msgid ""
"There was something to Disney's and Universal's claim. Sony did decide to "
"design its machine to make it very simple to record television shows. It "
#. f18
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4045
+#: freeculture.xml:4041
msgid ""
"Copyright Infringements (Audio and Video Recorders): Hearing on S. 1758 "
"Before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 97th Cong., 1st and 2nd sess., "
#. f19
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4057
+#: freeculture.xml:4053
msgid "Copyright Infringements (Audio and Video Recorders), 475."
msgstr ""
#. f20
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4062
+#: freeculture.xml:4058
msgid ""
"Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Sony Corp. of America, 480 F. Supp. 429, "
"(C.D. Cal., 1979)."
#. f21
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4073
+#: freeculture.xml:4069
msgid ""
"Copyright Infringements (Audio and Video Recorders), 485 (testimony of Jack "
"Valenti)."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4038
+#: freeculture.xml:4034
msgid ""
"MPAA president Jack Valenti became the studios' most vocal champion. Valenti "
"called VCRs \"tapeworms.\" He warned, \"When there are 20, 30, 40 million of "
#. f22
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4089
+#: freeculture.xml:4085
msgid ""
"Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Sony Corp. of America, 659 F. 2d 963 (9th "
"Cir. 1981)."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4078
+#: freeculture.xml:4074
msgid ""
"It took eight years for this case to be resolved by the Supreme Court. In "
"the interim, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which includes Hollywood in "
#. PAGE BREAK 90
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4094
+#: freeculture.xml:4090
msgid ""
"But the Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Ninth Circuit. And in "
"its reversal, the Court clearly articulated its understanding of when and "
#. f23
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4113
+#: freeculture.xml:4109
msgid ""
"Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417, 431 "
"(1984)."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><blockquote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4103
+#: freeculture.xml:4099
msgid ""
"Sound policy, as well as history, supports our consistent deference to "
"Congress when major technological innovations alter the market for "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4118
+#: freeculture.xml:4114
msgid ""
"Congress was asked to respond to the Supreme Court's decision. But as with "
"the plea of recording artists about radio broadcasts, Congress ignored the "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><table><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:4127
+#: freeculture.xml:4123
msgid "Table"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><table><tgroup><thead><row><entry>
-#: freeculture.xml:4131
+#: freeculture.xml:4127
msgid "CASE"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><table><tgroup><thead><row><entry>
-#: freeculture.xml:4132
+#: freeculture.xml:4128
msgid "WHOSE VALUE WAS \"PIRATED\""
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><table><tgroup><thead><row><entry>
-#: freeculture.xml:4133
+#: freeculture.xml:4129
msgid "RESPONSE OF THE COURTS"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><table><tgroup><thead><row><entry>
-#: freeculture.xml:4134
+#: freeculture.xml:4130
msgid "RESPONSE OF CONGRESS"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><table><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
-#: freeculture.xml:4139
+#: freeculture.xml:4135
msgid "Recordings"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><table><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
-#: freeculture.xml:4140
+#: freeculture.xml:4136
msgid "Composers"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><table><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
-#: freeculture.xml:4141 freeculture.xml:4153 freeculture.xml:4159
+#: freeculture.xml:4137 freeculture.xml:4149 freeculture.xml:4155
msgid "No protection"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><table><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
-#: freeculture.xml:4142 freeculture.xml:4154
+#: freeculture.xml:4138 freeculture.xml:4150
msgid "Statutory license"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><table><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
-#: freeculture.xml:4146
+#: freeculture.xml:4142
msgid "Recording artists"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><table><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
-#: freeculture.xml:4147
+#: freeculture.xml:4143
msgid "N/A"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><table><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
-#: freeculture.xml:4148 freeculture.xml:4160
+#: freeculture.xml:4144 freeculture.xml:4156
msgid "Nothing"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><table><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
-#: freeculture.xml:4152
+#: freeculture.xml:4148
msgid "Broadcasters"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><table><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
-#: freeculture.xml:4157
+#: freeculture.xml:4153
msgid "VCR"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><table><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
-#: freeculture.xml:4158
+#: freeculture.xml:4154
msgid "Film creators"
msgstr ""
#. f24
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4170
+#: freeculture.xml:4166
msgid ""
"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, was "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4167
+#: freeculture.xml:4163
msgid ""
"In each case throughout our history, a new technology changed the way "
"content was distributed.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> In each "
#. PAGE BREAK 91
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4186
+#: freeculture.xml:4182
msgid ""
"In none of these cases did either the courts or Congress eliminate all free "
"riding. In none of these cases did the courts or Congress insist that the "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4198
+#: freeculture.xml:4194
msgid ""
"When you think across these examples, and the other examples that make up "
"the first four chapters of this section, this balance makes sense. Was Walt "
#. f25
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4215
+#: freeculture.xml:4211
msgid "Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417, (1984)."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4210
+#: freeculture.xml:4206
msgid ""
"We could answer yes to each of these questions, but our tradition has "
"answered no. In our tradition, as the Supreme Court has stated, copyright "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4227
+#: freeculture.xml:4223
msgid ""
"We should be doing the same thing today. The technology of the Internet is "
"changing quickly. The way people connect to the Internet (wires "
#. f26
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4254
+#: freeculture.xml:4250
msgid ""
"John Schwartz, \"New Economy: The Attack on Peer-to-Peer Software Echoes "
"Past Efforts,\" New York Times, 22 September 2003, C3."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4244
+#: freeculture.xml:4240
msgid ""
"This is especially true when a new technology enables a vastly superior mode "
"of distribution. And this p2p has done. P2p technologies can be ideally "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4268
+#: freeculture.xml:4264
msgid ""
"\"It is our property,\" the warriors insist. \"And it should be protected "
"just as any other property is protected.\""
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:4276
+#: freeculture.xml:4272
msgid "\"PROPERTY\""
msgstr ""
#. PAGE BREAK 94
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4280
+#: freeculture.xml:4276
msgid ""
"The copyright warriors are right: A copyright is a kind of property. It can "
"be owned and sold, and the law protects against its theft. Ordinarily, the "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4287
+#: freeculture.xml:4283
msgid ""
"But in ordinary language, to call a copyright a \"property\" right is a bit "
"misleading, for the property of copyright is an odd kind of property. "
#. f1
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4312
+#: freeculture.xml:4308
msgid ""
"Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson (13 August 1813) in The "
"Writings of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 6 (Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4299
+#: freeculture.xml:4295
msgid ""
"The point is not just about the thingness of picnic tables versus ideas, "
"though that's an important difference. The point instead is that in the "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4318
+#: freeculture.xml:4314
msgid ""
"The exceptions to free use are ideas and expressions within the reach of the "
"law of patent and copyright, and a few other domains that I won't discuss "
#. f2
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4333
+#: freeculture.xml:4329
msgid ""
"As the legal realists taught American law, all property rights are "
"intangible. A property right is simply a right that an individual has "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4326
+#: freeculture.xml:4322
msgid ""
"But how, and to what extent, and in what form—the details, in other "
"words—matter. To get a good sense of how this practice of turning the "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4346
+#: freeculture.xml:4342
msgid ""
"My strategy in doing this will be the same as my strategy in the preceding "
"part. I offer four stories to help put the idea of \"copyright material is "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:4360
+#: freeculture.xml:4356
msgid "CHAPTER SIX: Founders"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4362
+#: freeculture.xml:4358
msgid ""
"William Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet in 1595. The play was first "
"published in 1597. It was the eleventh major play that Shakespeare had "
#. f1
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4378
+#: freeculture.xml:4374
msgid ""
"Jacob Tonson is typically remembered for his associations with prominent "
"eighteenth-century literary figures, especially John Dryden, and for his "
#. f2
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4389
+#: freeculture.xml:4385
msgid ""
"Lyman Ray Patterson, Copyright in Historical Perspective (Nashville: "
"Vanderbilt University Press, 1968), 151–52."
#. PAGE BREAK 97
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4374
+#: freeculture.xml:4370
msgid ""
"In 1774, almost 180 years after Romeo and Juliet was written, the "
"\"copy-right\" for the work was still thought by many to be the exclusive "
#. f3
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4415
+#: freeculture.xml:4411
msgid ""
"As Siva Vaidhyanathan nicely argues, it is erroneous to call this a "
"\"copyright law.\" See Vaidhyanathan, Copyrights and Copywrongs, 40."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4405
+#: freeculture.xml:4401
msgid ""
"Now, there's something puzzling about the year 1774 to anyone who knows a "
"little about copyright law. The better-known year in the history of "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4423
+#: freeculture.xml:4419
msgid ""
"The reason is that the English hadn't yet agreed on what a \"copyright\" "
"was—indeed, no one had. At the time the English passed the Statute of "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4436
+#: freeculture.xml:4432
msgid ""
"There was no positive law, but that didn't mean that there was no law. The "
"Anglo-American legal tradition looks to both the words of legislatures and "
#. PAGE BREAK 98
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4453
+#: freeculture.xml:4449
msgid ""
"This question was important to the publishers, or \"booksellers,\" as they "
"were called, because there was growing competition from foreign "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4465
+#: freeculture.xml:4461
msgid ""
"The Statute of Anne granted the author or \"proprietor\" of a book an "
"exclusive right to print that book. In an important limitation, however, and "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4475
+#: freeculture.xml:4471
msgid ""
"Now, the thing to puzzle about for a moment is this: Why would Parliament "
"limit the exclusive right? Not why would they limit it to the particular "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4480
+#: freeculture.xml:4476
msgid ""
"For the booksellers, and the authors whom they represented, had a very "
"strong claim. Take Romeo and Juliet as an example: That play was written by "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4492
+#: freeculture.xml:4488
msgid ""
"The answer comes in two parts. We first need to see something special about "
"the notion of \"copyright\" that existed at the time of the Statute of "
#. PAGE BREAK 99
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4499
+#: freeculture.xml:4495
msgid ""
"First, about copyright. In the last three hundred years, we have come to "
"apply the concept of \"copyright\" ever more broadly. But in 1710, it wasn't "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4516
+#: freeculture.xml:4512
msgid ""
"So, for example, even if the copyright to Shakespeare's works were "
"perpetual, all that would have meant under the original meaning of the term "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4528
+#: freeculture.xml:4524
msgid ""
"Even that limited right was viewed with skepticism by the British. They had "
"had a long and ugly experience with \"exclusive rights,\" especially "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4544
+#: freeculture.xml:4540
msgid ""
"Thus the \"copy-right,\" when viewed as a monopoly right, was naturally "
"viewed as a right that should be limited. (However convincing the claim that "
#. f4
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4568
+#: freeculture.xml:4564
msgid ""
"Philip Wittenberg, The Protection and Marketing of Literary Property (New "
"York: J. Messner, Inc., 1937), 31."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4555
+#: freeculture.xml:4551
msgid ""
"Second, about booksellers. It wasn't just that the copyright was a "
"monopoly. It was also that it was a monopoly held by the booksellers. "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4573
+#: freeculture.xml:4569
msgid ""
"Many believed the power the booksellers exercised over the spread of "
"knowledge was harming that spread, just at the time the Enlightenment was "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4582
+#: freeculture.xml:4578
msgid ""
"To balance this power, Parliament decided to increase competition among "
"booksellers, and the simplest way to do that was to spread the wealth of "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4594
+#: freeculture.xml:4590
msgid ""
"When 1731 (1710 + 21) came along, however, the booksellers were getting "
"anxious. They saw the consequences of more competition, and like every "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4603
+#: freeculture.xml:4599
msgid ""
"Parliament rejected their requests. As one pamphleteer put it, in words that "
"echo today,"
#. f5
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4618
+#: freeculture.xml:4614
msgid ""
"A Letter to a Member of Parliament concerning the Bill now depending in the "
"House of Commons, for making more effectual an Act in the Eighth Year of the "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4608
+#: freeculture.xml:4604
msgid ""
"I see no Reason for granting a further Term now, which will not hold as well "
"for granting it again and again, as often as the Old ones Expire; so that "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4629
+#: freeculture.xml:4625
msgid ""
"Having failed in Parliament, the publishers turned to the courts in a series "
"of cases. Their argument was simple and direct: The Statute of Anne gave "
#. f6
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4650
+#: freeculture.xml:4646
msgid ""
"Lyman Ray Patterson, \"Free Speech, Copyright, and Fair Use,\" Vanderbilt "
"Law Review 40 (1987): 28. For a wonderfully compelling account, see "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4644
+#: freeculture.xml:4640
msgid ""
"This was a clever argument, and one that had the support of some of the "
"leading jurists of the day. It also displayed extraordinary chutzpah. Until "
#. f7
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4662
+#: freeculture.xml:4658
msgid ""
"For a compelling account, see David Saunders, Authorship and Copyright "
"(London: Routledge, 1992), 62–69."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4658
+#: freeculture.xml:4654
msgid ""
"The booksellers' argument was not accepted without a fight. The hero of "
"this fight was a Scottish bookseller named Alexander Donaldson.<placeholder "
#. f8
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4672
+#: freeculture.xml:4668
msgid ""
"Mark Rose, Authors and Owners (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993), "
"92."
#. f9
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4682
+#: freeculture.xml:4678
msgid "Ibid., 93."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:4684
+#: freeculture.xml:4680
msgid "Erskine, Andrew"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4667
+#: freeculture.xml:4663
msgid ""
"Donaldson was an outsider to the London Conger. He began his career in "
"Edinburgh in 1750. The focus of his business was inexpensive reprints \"of "
#. f10
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4693
+#: freeculture.xml:4689
msgid ""
"Lyman Ray Patterson, Copyright in Historical Perspective, 167 (quoting "
"Borwell)."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4687
+#: freeculture.xml:4683
msgid ""
"When the London booksellers tried to shut down Donaldson's shop in Scotland, "
"he responded by moving his shop to London, where he sold inexpensive "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4701
+#: freeculture.xml:4697
msgid ""
"The London booksellers quickly brought suit to block \"piracy\" like "
"Donaldson's. A number of actions were successful against the \"pirates,\" "
#. f11
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4713
+#: freeculture.xml:4709
msgid ""
"Howard B. Abrams, \"The Historic Foundation of American Copyright Law: "
"Exploding the Myth of Common Law Copyright,\" Wayne Law Review 29 (1983): "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4706
+#: freeculture.xml:4702
msgid ""
"Millar was a bookseller who in 1729 had purchased the rights to James "
"Thomson's poem \"The Seasons.\" Millar complied with the requirements of the "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4719
+#: freeculture.xml:4715
msgid ""
"Astonishingly to modern lawyers, one of the greatest judges in English "
"history, Lord Mansfield, agreed with the booksellers. Whatever protection "
#. PAGE BREAK 103
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4730
+#: freeculture.xml:4726
msgid ""
"Considered as a matter of abstract justice—reasoning as if justice "
"were just a matter of logical deduction from first "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4744
+#: freeculture.xml:4740
msgid ""
"The fight to defend the limits of the Statute of Anne was not to end there, "
"however, and it is here that Donaldson enters the mix."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:4747
+#: freeculture.xml:4743
msgid "Beckett, Thomas"
msgstr ""
#. f12
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4753
+#: freeculture.xml:4749
msgid "Ibid., 1156."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4749
+#: freeculture.xml:4745
msgid ""
"Millar died soon after his victory, so his case was not appealed. His estate "
"sold Thomson's poems to a syndicate of printers that included Thomas "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4763
+#: freeculture.xml:4759
msgid ""
"As few legal cases ever do, Donaldson v. Beckett drew an enormous amount of "
"attention throughout Britain. Donaldson's lawyers argued that whatever "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4773
+#: freeculture.xml:4769
msgid ""
"The House of Lords was an odd institution. Legal questions were presented to "
"the House and voted upon first by the \"law lords,\" members of special "
#. PAGE BREAK 104
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4780
+#: freeculture.xml:4776
msgid ""
"The reports about the law lords' votes are mixed. On some counts, it looks "
"as if perpetual copyright prevailed. But there is no ambiguity about how the "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:4798
+#: freeculture.xml:4794
msgid "Bacon, Francis"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:4799
+#: freeculture.xml:4795
msgid "Bunyan, John"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:4800
+#: freeculture.xml:4796
msgid "Johnson, Samuel"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:4801
+#: freeculture.xml:4797
msgid "Milton, John"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:4802
+#: freeculture.xml:4798
msgid "Shakespeare, William"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4790
+#: freeculture.xml:4786
msgid ""
"\"The public domain.\" Before the case of Donaldson v. Beckett, there was no "
"clear idea of a public domain in England. Before 1774, there was a strong "
#. f13
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4815
+#: freeculture.xml:4811
msgid "Rose, 97."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4805
+#: freeculture.xml:4801
msgid ""
"It is hard for us to imagine, but this decision by the House of Lords fueled "
"an extraordinarily popular and political reaction. In Scotland, where most "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4819
+#: freeculture.xml:4815
msgid ""
"In London, however, at least among publishers, the reaction was equally "
"strong in the opposite direction. The Morning Chronicle reported:"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4825
+#: freeculture.xml:4821
msgid ""
"By the above decision . . . near 200,000 pounds worth of what was honestly "
"purchased at public sale, and which was yesterday thought property is now "
#. PAGE BREAK 105
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4840
+#: freeculture.xml:4836
msgid ""
"\"Ruined\" is a bit of an exaggeration. But it is not an exaggeration to say "
"that the change was profound. The decision of the House of Lords meant that "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4860
+#: freeculture.xml:4856
msgid ""
"At least, this was the rule in a world where the Parliament is antimonopoly, "
"resistant to the protectionist pleas of publishers. In a world where the "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:4868
+#: freeculture.xml:4864
msgid "CHAPTER SEVEN: Recorders"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4870
+#: freeculture.xml:4866
msgid ""
"Jon Else is a filmmaker. He is best known for his documentaries and has been "
"very successful in spreading his art. He is also a teacher, and as a teacher "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4877
+#: freeculture.xml:4873
msgid ""
"Else worked on a documentary that I was involved in. At a break, he told me "
"a story about the freedom to create with film in America today."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4882
+#: freeculture.xml:4878
msgid ""
"In 1990, Else was working on a documentary about Wagner's Ring Cycle. The "
"focus was stagehands at the San Francisco Opera. Stagehands are a "
#. PAGE BREAK 107
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4890
+#: freeculture.xml:4886
msgid ""
"During one of the performances, Else was shooting some stagehands playing "
"checkers. In one corner of the room was a television set. Playing on the "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4899
+#: freeculture.xml:4895
msgid ""
"Years later, when he finally got funding to complete the film, Else "
"attempted to clear the rights for those few seconds of The Simpsons. For of "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4906
+#: freeculture.xml:4902
msgid ""
"Else called Simpsons creator Matt Groening's office to get permission. "
"Groening approved the shot. The shot was a four-and-a-halfsecond image on a "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4913
+#: freeculture.xml:4909
msgid ""
"Gracie Films was okay with it, too, but they, like Groening, wanted to be "
"careful. So they told Else to contact Fox, Gracie's parent company. Else "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4920
+#: freeculture.xml:4916
msgid ""
"Then, as Else told me, \"two things happened. First we discovered . . . that "
"Matt Groening doesn't own his own creation—or at least that someone "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4928
+#: freeculture.xml:4924
msgid ""
"Else was certain there was a mistake. He worked his way up to someone he "
"thought was a vice president for licensing, Rebecca Herrera. He explained "
#. PAGE BREAK 108
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4936
+#: freeculture.xml:4932
msgid ""
"\"I wanted to make sure I had my facts straight,\" he told me. \"Yes, you "
"have your facts straight,\" she said. It would cost $10,000 to use the clip "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4948
+#: freeculture.xml:4944
msgid ""
"Else didn't have the money to buy the right to replay what was playing on "
"the television backstage at the San Francisco Opera. To reproduce this "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4956
+#: freeculture.xml:4952
msgid ""
"There's no doubt that someone, whether Matt Groening or Fox, owns the "
"copyright to The Simpsons. That copyright is their property. To use that "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4967
+#: freeculture.xml:4963
msgid ""
"For example, \"public performance\" is a use of The Simpsons that the "
"copyright owner gets to control. If you take a selection of favorite "
#. f1
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4979
+#: freeculture.xml:4975
msgid ""
"For an excellent argument that such use is \"fair use,\" but that lawyers "
"don't permit recognition that it is \"fair use,\" see Richard A. Posner with "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4976
+#: freeculture.xml:4972
msgid ""
"But when lawyers hear this story about Jon Else and Fox, their first thought "
"is \"fair use.\"<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Else's use of just "
#. PAGE BREAK 109
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4991
+#: freeculture.xml:4987
msgid "So I asked Else why he didn't just rely upon \"fair use.\" Here's his reply:"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:4995
+#: freeculture.xml:4991
msgid ""
"The Simpsons fiasco was for me a great lesson in the gulf between what "
"lawyers find irrelevant in some abstract sense, and what is crushingly "
#. 1.
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><orderedlist><listitem><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5005
+#: freeculture.xml:5001
msgid ""
"Before our films can be broadcast, the network requires that we buy Errors "
"and Omissions insurance. The carriers require a detailed \"visual cue "
#. 2.
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><orderedlist><listitem><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5013
+#: freeculture.xml:5009
msgid ""
"I probably never should have asked Matt Groening in the first place. But I "
"knew (at least from folklore) that Fox had a history of tracking down and "
#. 3.
#. PAGE BREAK 110
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><orderedlist><listitem><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5025
+#: freeculture.xml:5021
msgid ""
"I did, in fact, speak with one of your colleagues at Stanford Law School "
". . . who confirmed that it was fair use. He also confirmed that Fox would "
#. 4.
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><orderedlist><listitem><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5035
+#: freeculture.xml:5031
msgid ""
"The question of fair use usually comes up at the end of the project, when we "
"are up against a release deadline and out of money."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5042
+#: freeculture.xml:5038
msgid ""
"In theory, fair use means you need no permission. The theory therefore "
"supports free culture and insulates against a permission culture. But in "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5050
+#: freeculture.xml:5046
msgid ""
"This practice shows just how far the law has come from its "
"eighteenth-century roots. The law was born as a shield to protect "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:5059
+#: freeculture.xml:5055
msgid "CHAPTER EIGHT: Transformers"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:5060
+#: freeculture.xml:5056
msgid "Allen, Paul"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><indexterm><primary>
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+#: freeculture.xml:5057 freeculture.xml:5065 freeculture.xml:5076 freeculture.xml:5091 freeculture.xml:5100 freeculture.xml:5105 freeculture.xml:5157 freeculture.xml:5173 freeculture.xml:5196 freeculture.xml:5258 freeculture.xml:9613
msgid "Alben, Alex"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5063
+#: freeculture.xml:5059
msgid ""
"In 1993, Alex Alben was a lawyer working at Starwave, Inc. Starwave was an "
"innovative company founded by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen to develop "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5071
+#: freeculture.xml:5067
msgid ""
"Alben had a special interest in new technology. He was intrigued by the "
"emerging market for CD-ROM technology—not to distribute film, but to "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5082
+#: freeculture.xml:5078
msgid ""
"At that time, Eastwood had made more than fifty films, as an actor and as a "
"director. Alben began with a series of interviews with Eastwood, asking him "
#. PAGE BREAK 112
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5089
+#: freeculture.xml:5085
msgid ""
"That alone would not have made a very interesting product, so Starwave "
"wanted to add content from the movies in Eastwood's career: posters, "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5097
+#: freeculture.xml:5093
msgid ""
"Then Alben and his team decided to include actual film clips. \"Our goal was "
"that we were going to have a clip from every one of Eastwood's films,\" "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5106
+#: freeculture.xml:5102
msgid ""
"Alben brought the idea to Michael Slade, the CEO of Starwave. Slade asked, "
"\"Well, what will it take?\""
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:5122
+#: freeculture.xml:5118
msgid "artists"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para><indexterm><secondary>
-#: freeculture.xml:5123
+#: freeculture.xml:5119
msgid "publicity rights on images of"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5117
+#: freeculture.xml:5113
msgid ""
"Technically, the rights that Alben had to clear were mainly those of "
"publicity—rights an artist has to control the commercial exploitation "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5111
+#: freeculture.xml:5107
msgid ""
"Alben replied, \"Well, we're going to have to clear rights from everyone who "
"appears in these films, and the music and everything else that we want to "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5128
+#: freeculture.xml:5124
msgid ""
"The problem was that neither Alben nor Slade had any idea what clearing "
"those rights would mean. Every actor in each of the films could have a claim "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5135
+#: freeculture.xml:5131
msgid ""
"I asked Alben how he dealt with the problem. With an obvious pride in his "
"resourcefulness that obscured the obvious bizarreness of his tale, Alben "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5141
+#: freeculture.xml:5137
msgid ""
"So we very mechanically went about looking up the film clips. We made some "
"artistic decisions about what film clips to include—of course we were "
#. PAGE BREAK 113
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5150
+#: freeculture.xml:5146
msgid ""
"We decided that it would be fair if we offered them the dayplayer rate for "
"the right to reuse that performance. We're talking about a clip of less than "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5163
+#: freeculture.xml:5159
msgid ""
"Some actors were glad to help—Donald Sutherland, for example, followed "
"up himself to be sure that the rights had been cleared. Others were "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5174
+#: freeculture.xml:5170
msgid ""
"It was one year later—\"and even then we weren't sure whether we were "
"totally in the clear.\""
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5179
+#: freeculture.xml:5175
msgid ""
"Alben is proud of his work. The project was the first of its kind and the "
"only time he knew of that a team had undertaken such a massive project for "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5185
+#: freeculture.xml:5181
msgid ""
"Everyone thought it would be too hard. Everyone just threw up their hands "
"and said, \"Oh, my gosh, a film, it's so many copyrights, there's the music, "
#. PAGE BREAK 114
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5197
+#: freeculture.xml:5193
msgid ""
"And no doubt, the product itself was exceptionally good. Eastwood loved it, "
"and it sold very well."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:5201
+#: freeculture.xml:5197
msgid "Drucker, Peter"
msgstr ""
#. f2
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5209
+#: freeculture.xml:5205
msgid ""
"U.S. Department of Commerce Office of Acquisition Management, Seven Steps to "
"Performance-Based Services Acquisition, available at <ulink "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5203
+#: freeculture.xml:5199
msgid ""
"But I pressed Alben about how weird it seems that it would have to take a "
"year's work simply to clear rights. No doubt Alben had done this "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5217
+#: freeculture.xml:5213
msgid ""
"For, as he acknowledged, \"very few . . . have the time and resources, and "
"the will to do this,\" and thus, very few such works would ever be "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5225
+#: freeculture.xml:5221
msgid ""
"I don't think so. When an actor renders a performance in a movie, he or she "
"gets paid very well. . . . And then when 30 seconds of that performance is "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5233
+#: freeculture.xml:5229
msgid ""
"Or at least, is this how the artist should be compensated? Would it make "
"sense, I asked, for there to be some kind of statutory license that someone "
#. PAGE BREAK 115
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5243
+#: freeculture.xml:5239
msgid ""
"Absolutely. I think that if there were some fair-licensing "
"mechanism—where you weren't subject to hold-ups and you weren't "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5264
+#: freeculture.xml:5260
msgid ""
"Alben worked for a big company. His company was backed by some of the "
"richest investors in the world. He therefore had authority and access that "
#. PAGE BREAK 116
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5281
+#: freeculture.xml:5277
msgid ""
"I've seen the flash of recognition when people get this point, but only a "
"few times. The first was at a conference of federal judges in California. "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5291
+#: freeculture.xml:5287
msgid ""
"The video was a brilliant collage of film from every period in the twentieth "
"century, all framed around the idea of a 60 Minutes episode. The execution "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:5296
+#: freeculture.xml:5292
msgid "Nimmer, David"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5298
+#: freeculture.xml:5294
msgid ""
"When the lights came up, I looked over to my copanelist, David Nimmer, "
"perhaps the leading copyright scholar and practitioner in the nation. He had "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:5305
+#: freeculture.xml:5301
msgid "Boies, David"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5307
+#: freeculture.xml:5303
msgid ""
"For of course, the two brilliantly talented creators who made this film "
"hadn't done what Alben did. They hadn't spent a year clearing the rights to "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5322
+#: freeculture.xml:5318
msgid ""
"We live in a \"cut and paste\" culture enabled by technology. Anyone "
"building a presentation knows the extraordinary freedom that the cut and "
"your presentation."
msgstr ""
-#. PAGE BREAK 117
+#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><indexterm><primary>
+#: freeculture.xml:5334
+msgid "Camp Chaos"
+msgstr ""
+
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5329
+#: freeculture.xml:5325
msgid ""
"But presentations are just a tiny beginning. Using the Internet and its "
"archives, musicians are able to string together mixes of sound never before "
"politicians and blends them with music to create biting political "
"commentary. A site called Camp Chaos has produced some of the most biting "
"criticism of the record industry that there is through the mixing of Flash! "
-"and music."
+"and music. <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5340
+#: freeculture.xml:5337
msgid ""
"All of these creations are technically illegal. Even if the creators wanted "
"to be \"legal,\" the cost of complying with the law is impossibly "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5347
+#: freeculture.xml:5344
msgid ""
"To some, these stories suggest a solution: Let's alter the mix of rights so "
"that people are free to build upon our culture. Free to add or mix as they "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5362
+#: freeculture.xml:5359
msgid ""
"Who could possibly object to this? And what reason would there be for "
"objecting? We're talking about work that is not now being made; which if "
#. PAGE BREAK 118
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5368
+#: freeculture.xml:5365
msgid ""
"In February 2003, DreamWorks studios announced an agreement with Mike Myers, "
"the comic genius of Saturday Night Live and Austin Powers. According to the "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5380
+#: freeculture.xml:5377
msgid ""
"The announcement called this \"film sampling.\" As Myers explained, \"Film "
"Sampling is an exciting way to put an original spin on existing films and "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5389
+#: freeculture.xml:5386
msgid ""
"Spielberg is right. Film sampling by Myers will be brilliant. But if you "
"don't think about it, you might miss the truly astonishing point about this "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5399
+#: freeculture.xml:5396
msgid ""
"This privilege becomes reserved for two sorts of reasons. The first "
"continues the story of the last chapter: the vagueness of \"fair use.\" Much "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:5414
+#: freeculture.xml:5411
msgid "CHAPTER NINE: Collectors"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5416
+#: freeculture.xml:5413
msgid ""
"In April 1996, millions of \"bots\"—computer codes designed to "
"\"spider,\" or automatically search the Internet and copy "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5425
+#: freeculture.xml:5422
msgid ""
"By October 2001, the bots had collected more than five years of copies. And "
"at a small announcement in Berkeley, California, the archive that these "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5433
+#: freeculture.xml:5430
msgid ""
"This is the thing about the Internet that Orwell would have appreciated. In "
"the dystopia described in 1984, old newspapers were constantly updated to "
#. PAGE BREAK 120
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5441
+#: freeculture.xml:5438
msgid ""
"Thousands of workers constantly reedited the past, meaning there was no way "
"ever to know whether the story you were reading today was the story that was "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5446
+#: freeculture.xml:5443
msgid ""
"It's the same with the Internet. If you go to a Web page today, there's no "
"way for you to know whether the content you are reading is the same as the "
#. f1
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5459
+#: freeculture.xml:5456
msgid ""
"The temptations remain, however. Brewster Kahle reports that the White House "
"changes its own press releases without notice. A May 13, 2003, press release "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5453
+#: freeculture.xml:5450
msgid ""
"Until the Way Back Machine, at least. With the Way Back Machine, and the "
"Internet Archive underlying it, you can see what the Internet was. You have "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5467
+#: freeculture.xml:5464
msgid ""
"We take it for granted that we can go back to see what we remember "
"reading. Think about newspapers. If you wanted to study the reaction of your "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5478
+#: freeculture.xml:5475
msgid ""
"It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat "
"it. That's not quite correct. We all forget history. The key is whether we "
#. PAGE BREAK 121
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5487
+#: freeculture.xml:5484
msgid ""
"The Internet was an exception to this presumption. Until the Internet "
"Archive, there was no way to go back. The Internet was the quintessentially "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5498
+#: freeculture.xml:5495
msgid ""
"Brewster Kahle is the founder of the Internet Archive. He was a very "
"successful Internet entrepreneur after he was a successful computer "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5508
+#: freeculture.xml:5505
msgid ""
"The Way Back Machine is the largest archive of human knowledge in human "
"history. At the end of 2002, it held \"two hundred and thirty terabytes of "
#. PAGE BREAK 122
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5526
+#: freeculture.xml:5523
msgid ""
"Do you remember when Dan Quayle was interacting with Murphy Brown? Remember "
"that back and forth surreal experience of a politician interacting with a "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5538
+#: freeculture.xml:5535
msgid ""
"Why is that? Why is it that the part of our culture that is recorded in "
"newspapers remains perpetually accessible, while the part that is recorded "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5546
+#: freeculture.xml:5543
msgid ""
"In part, this is because of the law. Early in American copyright law, "
"copyright owners were required to deposit copies of their work in "
#. f2
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5563
+#: freeculture.xml:5560
msgid ""
"Doug Herrick, \"Toward a National Film Collection: Motion Pictures at the "
"Library of Congress,\" Film Library Quarterly 13 nos. 2–3 (1980): 5; "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5554
+#: freeculture.xml:5551
msgid ""
"These rules applied to film as well. But in 1915, the Library of Congress "
"made an exception for film. Film could be copyrighted so long as such "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5571
+#: freeculture.xml:5568
msgid ""
"The same is generally true about television. Television broadcasts were "
"originally not copyrighted—there was no way to capture the broadcasts, "
#. PAGE BREAK 123
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5582
+#: freeculture.xml:5579
msgid ""
"Kahle was eager to correct this. Before September 11, 2001, he and his "
"allies had started capturing television. They selected twenty stations from "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5593
+#: freeculture.xml:5590
msgid ""
"Kahle had the same idea with film. Working with Rick Prelinger, whose "
"archive of film includes close to 45,000 \"ephemeral films\" (meaning films "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5611
+#: freeculture.xml:5608
msgid ""
"Here again, Kahle is providing access to a part of our culture that we "
"otherwise could not get easily, if at all. It is yet another part of what "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5619
+#: freeculture.xml:5616
msgid ""
"The key here is access, not price. Kahle wants to enable free access to this "
"content, but he also wants to enable others to sell access to it. His aim is "
#. PAGE BREAK 124
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5627
+#: freeculture.xml:5624
msgid ""
"For here is an idea that we should more clearly recognize. Every bit of "
"creative property goes through different \"lives.\" In its first life, if "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5639
+#: freeculture.xml:5636
msgid ""
"After the commercial life of creative property has ended, our tradition has "
"always supported a second life as well. A newspaper delivers the news every "
#. f3
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5651
+#: freeculture.xml:5648
msgid ""
"Dave Barns, \"Fledgling Career in Antique Books: Woodstock Landlord, Bar "
"Owner Starts a New Chapter by Adopting Business,\" Chicago Tribune, 5 "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5648
+#: freeculture.xml:5645
msgid ""
"The same has always been true about books. A book goes out of print very "
"quickly (the average today is after about a year<placeholder "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5665
+#: freeculture.xml:5662
msgid ""
"Yet increasingly, any assumption about a stable second life for creative "
"property does not hold true with the most important components of popular "
#. PAGE BREAK 125
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5676
+#: freeculture.xml:5673
msgid ""
"For most of the twentieth century, it was economics that made this so. It "
"would have been insanely expensive to collect and make accessible all "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5688
+#: freeculture.xml:5685
msgid ""
"Perhaps the single most important feature of the digital revolution is that "
"for the first time since the Library of Alexandria, it is feasible to "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5696
+#: freeculture.xml:5693
msgid ""
"The scale of this potential archive is something we've never imagined "
"before. The Brewster Kahles of our history have dreamed about it; but we are "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5703
+#: freeculture.xml:5700
msgid ""
"It looks like there's about two to three million recordings of music. "
"Ever. There are about a hundred thousand theatrical releases of movies, "
#. PAGE BREAK 126
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5717
+#: freeculture.xml:5714
msgid ""
"Kahle is not the only librarian. The Internet Archive is not the only "
"archive. But Kahle and the Internet Archive suggest what the future of "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5732
+#: freeculture.xml:5729
msgid ""
"Technologists have thus removed the economic costs of building such an "
"archive. But lawyers' costs remain. For as much as we might like to call "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:5742
+#: freeculture.xml:5739
msgid "CHAPTER TEN: \"Property\""
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:5751
+#: freeculture.xml:5748
msgid "Johnson, Lyndon"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5744
+#: freeculture.xml:5741
msgid ""
"Jack Valenti has been the president of the Motion Picture Association of "
"America since 1966. He first came to Washington, D.C., with Lyndon Johnson's "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5754
+#: freeculture.xml:5751
msgid ""
"The MPAA is the American branch of the international Motion Picture "
"Association. It was formed in 1922 as a trade association whose goal was to "
#. PAGE BREAK 128
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5767
+#: freeculture.xml:5764
msgid ""
"Valenti is only the third president of the MPAA. No president before him has "
"had as much influence over that organization, or over Washington. As a "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5779
+#: freeculture.xml:5776
msgid ""
"In defending artistic liberty and the freedom of speech that our culture "
"depends upon, the MPAA has done important good. In crafting the MPAA rating "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5788
+#: freeculture.xml:5785
msgid "In 1982, Valenti's testimony to Congress captured the strategy perfectly:"
msgstr ""
#. f1
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5802
+#: freeculture.xml:5799
msgid ""
"Home Recording of Copyrighted Works: Hearings on H.R. 4783, H.R. 4794, "
"H.R. 4808, H.R. 5250, H.R. 5488, and H.R. 5705 Before the Subcommittee on "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5793
+#: freeculture.xml:5790
msgid ""
"No matter the lengthy arguments made, no matter the charges and the "
"counter-charges, no matter the tumult and the shouting, reasonable men and "
#. PAGE BREAK 129
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5812
+#: freeculture.xml:5809
msgid ""
"The strategy of this rhetoric, like the strategy of most of Valenti's "
"rhetoric, is brilliant and simple and brilliant because simple. The "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5823
+#: freeculture.xml:5820
msgid ""
"This claim has an obvious and powerful intuitive pull. It is stated with "
"such clarity as to make the idea as obvious as the notion that we use "
#. f2
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5838
+#: freeculture.xml:5835
msgid ""
"Lawyers speak of \"property\" not as an absolute thing, but as a bundle of "
"rights that are sometimes associated with a particular object. Thus, my "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5835
+#: freeculture.xml:5832
msgid ""
"While \"creative property\" is certainly \"property\" in a nerdy and precise "
"sense that lawyers are trained to understand,<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5853
+#: freeculture.xml:5850
msgid ""
"Valenti knows this. But he speaks for an industry that cares squat for our "
"tradition and the values it represents. He speaks for an industry that is "
#. PAGE BREAK 130
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5861
+#: freeculture.xml:5858
msgid ""
"I have two purposes in this chapter. The first is to convince you that, "
"historically, Valenti's claim is absolutely wrong. The second is to convince "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5876
+#: freeculture.xml:5873
msgid ""
"Organizations such as the MPAA, whose board includes the most powerful of "
"the old guard, have little interest, their rhetoric notwithstanding, in "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5888
+#: freeculture.xml:5885
msgid ""
"The framers of our Constitution loved \"property.\" Indeed, so strongly did "
"they love property that they built into the Constitution an important "
#. PAGE BREAK 131
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5899
+#: freeculture.xml:5896
msgid ""
"Yet the very same Constitution speaks very differently about what Valenti "
"calls \"creative property.\" In the clause granting Congress the power to "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5914
+#: freeculture.xml:5911
msgid ""
"The Constitution thus on its face states that these two forms of property "
"are not to be accorded the same rights. They are plainly to be treated "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5923
+#: freeculture.xml:5920
msgid ""
"Arguing for a change in our Constitution is not necessarily wrong. There "
"was much in our original Constitution that was plainly wrong. The "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5935
+#: freeculture.xml:5932
msgid ""
"Instead, my argument is that because Jefferson did it, we should at least "
"try to understand why. Why did the framers, fanatical property types that "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5942
+#: freeculture.xml:5939
msgid ""
"To answer this question, we need to get some perspective on the history of "
"these \"creative property\" rights, and the control that they enabled. Once "
#. PAGE BREAK 132
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5956
+#: freeculture.xml:5953
msgid ""
"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 "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><figure><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:5965
+#: freeculture.xml:5962
msgid ""
"How four different modalities of regulation interact to support or weaken "
"the right or regulation."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure>
-#: freeculture.xml:5966 freeculture.xml:6140 freeculture.xml:6433
+#: freeculture.xml:5963 freeculture.xml:6137 freeculture.xml:6432
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1331.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""
#. PAGE BREAK 133
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5969
+#: freeculture.xml:5966
msgid ""
"At the center of this picture is a regulated dot: the individual or group "
"that is the target of regulation, or the holder of a right. (In each case "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5985
+#: freeculture.xml:5982
msgid ""
"Norms are a different kind of constraint. They, too, punish an individual "
"for violating a rule. But the punishment of a norm is imposed by a "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:5996
+#: freeculture.xml:5993
msgid ""
"The market is a third type of constraint. Its constraint is effected through "
"conditions: You can do X if you pay Y; you'll be paid M if you do N. These "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6006
+#: freeculture.xml:6003
msgid ""
"Finally, and for the moment, perhaps, most mysteriously, "
"\"architecture\"—the physical world as one finds it—is a "
#. PAGE BREAK 134
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6023
+#: freeculture.xml:6020
msgid ""
"So the first point about these four modalities of regulation is obvious: "
"They interact. Restrictions imposed by one might be reinforced by "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6029
+#: freeculture.xml:6026
msgid ""
"The second point follows directly: If we want to understand the effective "
"freedom that anyone has at a given moment to do any particular thing, we "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:6038
+#: freeculture.xml:6035
msgid "driving speed, constraints on"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6041
+#: freeculture.xml:6038
msgid ""
"So, for example, consider the \"freedom\" to drive a car at a high "
"speed. That freedom is in part restricted by laws: speed limits that say how "
#. f3
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6059
+#: freeculture.xml:6056
msgid ""
"By describing the way law affects the other three modalities, I don't mean "
"to suggest that the other three don't affect law. Obviously, they do. Law's "
#. PAGE BREAK 135
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6055
+#: freeculture.xml:6052
msgid ""
"The final point about this simple model should also be fairly clear: While "
"these four modalities are analytically independent, law has a special role "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><figure><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:6083
+#: freeculture.xml:6080
msgid "Law has a special role in affecting the three."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><figure>
-#: freeculture.xml:6084
+#: freeculture.xml:6081
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1361.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:6123
+#: freeculture.xml:6120
msgid "Commons, John R."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6095
+#: freeculture.xml:6092
msgid ""
"Some people object to this way of talking about \"liberty.\" They object "
"because their focus when considering the constraints that exist at any "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6087
+#: freeculture.xml:6084
msgid ""
"These constraints can thus change, and they can be changed. To understand "
"the effective protection of liberty or protection of property at any "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:6127
+#: freeculture.xml:6124
msgid "Why Hollywood Is Right"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6129
+#: freeculture.xml:6126
msgid ""
"The most obvious point that this model reveals is just why, or just how, "
"Hollywood is right. The copyright warriors have rallied Congress and the "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6135
+#: freeculture.xml:6132
msgid "Let's say this is the picture of copyright's regulation before the Internet:"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:6139 freeculture.xml:6432
+#: freeculture.xml:6136 freeculture.xml:6431
msgid "Copyright's regulation before the Internet."
msgstr ""
#. PAGE BREAK 136
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6144
+#: freeculture.xml:6141
msgid ""
"There is balance between law, norms, market, and architecture. The law "
"limits the ability to copy and share content, by imposing penalties on those "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6156
+#: freeculture.xml:6153
msgid ""
"Enter the Internet, or, more precisely, technologies such as MP3s and p2p "
"sharing. Now the constraint of architecture changes dramatically, as does "
#. PAGE BREAK 137
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6164
+#: freeculture.xml:6161
msgid ""
"Thus the sense of, and justification for, the warriors' response. "
"Technology has changed, the warriors say, and the effect of this change, "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:6174
+#: freeculture.xml:6171
msgid "effective state of anarchy after the Internet."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure>
-#: freeculture.xml:6175
+#: freeculture.xml:6172
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1381.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6178
+#: freeculture.xml:6175
msgid ""
"Neither this analysis nor the conclusions that follow are new to the "
"warriors. Indeed, in a \"White Paper\" prepared by the Commerce Department "
#. PAGE BREAK 138
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6190
+#: freeculture.xml:6187
msgid ""
"This mixed strategy is just what copyright needed—if it was to "
"preserve the particular balance that existed before the change induced by "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6207
+#: freeculture.xml:6204
msgid ""
"Thus, there's nothing wrong or surprising in the content industry's campaign "
"to protect itself from the harmful consequences of a technological "
#. f5
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6223
+#: freeculture.xml:6220
msgid ""
"See Geoffrey Smith, \"Film vs. Digital: Can Kodak Build a Bridge?\" "
"BusinessWeek online, 2 August 1999, available at <ulink "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6215
+#: freeculture.xml:6212
msgid ""
"But just because a particular interest asks for government support, it "
"doesn't follow that support should be granted. And just because technology "
#. f6
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6255
+#: freeculture.xml:6252
msgid "Fred Warshofsky, The Patent Wars (New York: Wiley, 1994), 170–71."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6245
+#: freeculture.xml:6242
msgid ""
"The obvious answer to these obviously rhetorical questions is no. In a free "
"society, with a free market, supported by free enterprise and free trade, "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6266
+#: freeculture.xml:6263
msgid ""
"Thus, while it is understandable for industries threatened with new "
"technologies that change the way they do business to look to the government "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6276
+#: freeculture.xml:6273
msgid ""
"In the context of laws regulating speech—which include, obviously, "
"copyright law—that duty is even stronger. When the industry "
#. PAGE BREAK 140
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6290
+#: freeculture.xml:6287
msgid ""
"My argument just now, however, has nothing to do with whether the changes "
"that are being pushed by the copyright warriors are \"justified.\" My "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6299
+#: freeculture.xml:6296
msgid "Here's the metaphor that will capture the argument to follow."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6302
+#: freeculture.xml:6299
msgid ""
"In 1873, the chemical DDT was first synthesized. In 1948, Swiss chemist Paul "
"Hermann Müller won the Nobel Prize for his work demonstrating the "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6309
+#: freeculture.xml:6306
msgid ""
"No one doubts that killing disease-carrying pests or increasing crop "
"production is a good thing. No one doubts that the work of Müller was "
"important and valuable and probably saved lives, possibly millions."
msgstr ""
-#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:6313
+#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><
para><indexterm><primary>
+#: freeculture.xml:6310 freeculture.xml:6316
msgid "Carson, Rachel"
msgstr ""
+#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><indexterm><primary>
+#: freeculture.xml:6317
+msgid "Silent Sprint (Carson)"
+msgstr ""
+
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6315
+#: freeculture.xml:6312
msgid ""
"But in 1962, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, which argued that DDT, "
"whatever its primary benefits, was also having unintended environmental "
"consequences. Birds were losing the ability to reproduce. Whole chains of "
-"the ecology were being destroyed."
+"the ecology were being destroyed. <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
+"id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6321
+#: freeculture.xml:6320
msgid ""
"No one set out to destroy the environment. Paul Müller certainly did not aim "
"to harm any birds. But the effort to solve one set of problems produced "
#. f7
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6334
+#: freeculture.xml:6333
msgid ""
"See, for example, James Boyle, \"A Politics of Intellectual Property: "
"Environmentalism for the Net?\" Duke Law Journal 47 (1997): 87."
#. PAGE BREAK 141
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6330
+#: freeculture.xml:6329
msgid ""
"It is to this image precisely that Duke University law professor James Boyle "
"appeals when he argues that we need an \"environmentalism\" for "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6351
+#: freeculture.xml:6350
msgid ""
"My argument, in the balance of this chapter, tries to map exactly this "
"effect. No doubt the technology of the Internet has had a dramatic effect on "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6362
+#: freeculture.xml:6361
msgid ""
"In a line: To kill a gnat, we are spraying DDT with consequences for free "
"culture that will be far more devastating than that this gnat will be lost."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:6368
+#: freeculture.xml:6367
msgid "Beginnings"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6370
+#: freeculture.xml:6369
msgid ""
"America copied English copyright law. Actually, we copied and improved "
"English copyright law. Our Constitution makes the purpose of \"creative "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6376
+#: freeculture.xml:6375
msgid ""
"The power to establish \"creative property\" rights is granted to Congress "
"in a way that, for our Constitution, at least, is very odd. Article I, "
#. PAGE BREAK 142
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6381
+#: freeculture.xml:6380
msgid ""
"Congress has the power to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, "
"by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6394
+#: freeculture.xml:6393
msgid ""
"The Progress Clause expressly limits the term of copyrights. As we saw in "
"chapter 6, the English limited the term of copyright so as to assure that a "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6403
+#: freeculture.xml:6402
msgid ""
"The design of the Progress Clause reflects something about the "
"Constitution's design in general. To avoid a problem, the framers built "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6418
+#: freeculture.xml:6417
msgid ""
"I doubt the framers would recognize the regulation we call \"copyright\" "
"today. The scope of that regulation is far beyond anything they ever "
#. PAGE BREAK 143
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6425
+#: freeculture.xml:6424
msgid ""
"Some of these changes come from the law: some in light of changes in "
"technology, and some in light of changes in technology given a particular "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6436
+#: freeculture.xml:6435
msgid "We will end here:"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:6439
+#: freeculture.xml:6438
msgid ""Copyright" today."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure>
-#: freeculture.xml:6440
+#: freeculture.xml:6439
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1442.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""
#. PAGE BREAK 144
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6443
+#: freeculture.xml:6442
msgid "Let me explain how."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:6448
+#: freeculture.xml:6447
msgid "Law: Duration"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:6463
+#: freeculture.xml:6462
msgid "Crosskey, William W."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6458
+#: freeculture.xml:6457
msgid ""
"William W. Crosskey, Politics and the Constitution in the History of the "
"United States (London: Cambridge University Press, 1953), vol. 1, "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6450
+#: freeculture.xml:6449
msgid ""
"When the first Congress enacted laws to protect creative property, it faced "
"the same uncertainty about the status of creative property that the English "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6473
+#: freeculture.xml:6472
msgid ""
"That uncertainty ended after Congress passed legislation granting "
"copyrights. Because federal law overrides any contrary state law, federal "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6481
+#: freeculture.xml:6480
msgid ""
"In 1790, Congress enacted the first copyright law. It created a federal "
"copyright and secured that copyright for fourteen years. If the author was "
#. f9
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6496
+#: freeculture.xml:6495
msgid ""
"Although 13,000 titles were published in the United States from 1790 to "
"1799, only 556 copyright registrations were filed; John Tebbel, A History of "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6488
+#: freeculture.xml:6487
msgid ""
"While there were many works created in the United States in the first ten "
"years of the Republic, only 5 percent of the works were actually registered "
#. PAGE BREAK 145
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6512
+#: freeculture.xml:6511
msgid ""
"This system of renewal was a crucial part of the American system of "
"copyright. It assured that the maximum terms of copyright would be granted "
#. f10
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6527
+#: freeculture.xml:6526
msgid ""
"Few copyright holders ever chose to renew their copyrights. For instance, of "
"the 25,006 copyrights registered in 1883, only 894 were renewed in 1910. For "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6521
+#: freeculture.xml:6520
msgid ""
"Fourteen years may not seem long to us, but for the vast majority of "
"copyright owners at that time, it was long enough: Only a small minority of "
#. f11
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6542
+#: freeculture.xml:6541
msgid "See Ringer, ch. 9, n. 2."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6538
+#: freeculture.xml:6537
msgid ""
"Even today, this structure would make sense. Most creative work has an "
"actual commercial life of just a couple of years. Most books fall out of "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6550
+#: freeculture.xml:6549
msgid ""
"In the first hundred years of the Republic, the term of copyright was "
"changed once. In 1831, the term was increased from a maximum of 28 years to "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6558
+#: freeculture.xml:6557
msgid ""
"Then, beginning in 1962, Congress started a practice that has defined "
"copyright law since. Eleven times in the last forty years, Congress has "
#. PAGE BREAK 146
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6568
+#: freeculture.xml:6567
msgid ""
"The effect of these extensions is simply to toll, or delay, the passing of "
"works into the public domain. This latest extension means that the public "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6579
+#: freeculture.xml:6578
msgid ""
"The effect of these extensions has been exacerbated by another, "
"little-noticed change in the copyright law. Remember I said that the framers "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6589
+#: freeculture.xml:6588
msgid ""
"The United States abandoned this sensible system in 1976. For all works "
"created after 1978, there was only one copyright term—the maximum "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6599
+#: freeculture.xml:6598
msgid ""
"This change meant that American law no longer had an automatic way to assure "
"that works that were no longer exploited passed into the public domain. And "
#. f12
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6616
+#: freeculture.xml:6615
msgid ""
"These statistics are understated. Between the years 1910 and 1962 (the first "
"year the renewal term was extended), the average term was never more than "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6608
+#: freeculture.xml:6607
msgid ""
"The effect of these changes on the average duration of copyright is "
"dramatic. In 1973, more than 85 percent of copyright owners failed to renew "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:6625
+#: freeculture.xml:6624
msgid "Law: Scope"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6627
+#: freeculture.xml:6626
msgid ""
"The \"scope\" of a copyright is the range of rights granted by the law. The "
"scope of American copyright has changed dramatically. Those changes are not "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6633
+#: freeculture.xml:6632
msgid ""
"In 1790, that scope was very narrow. Copyright covered only \"maps, charts, "
"and books.\" That means it didn't cover, for example, music or "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6646
+#: freeculture.xml:6645
msgid ""
"This, too, has changed dramatically. While the contours of copyright today "
"are extremely hard to describe simply, in general terms, the right covers "
#. PAGE BREAK 148
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6661
+#: freeculture.xml:6660
msgid ""
"At the same time that the scope of copyright has expanded, procedural "
"limitations on the right have been relaxed. I've already described the "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6674
+#: freeculture.xml:6673
msgid ""
"The reason for the registration requirement was the sensible understanding "
"that for most works, no copyright was required. Again, in the first ten "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6688
+#: freeculture.xml:6687
msgid ""
"All of these \"formalities\" were abolished in the American system when we "
"decided to follow European copyright law. There is no requirement that you "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6696
+#: freeculture.xml:6695
msgid "Consider a practical example to understand the scope of these differences."
msgstr ""
#. f13
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6707
+#: freeculture.xml:6706
msgid ""
"See Thomas Bender and David Sampliner, \"Poets, Pirates, and the Creation of "
"American Literature,\" 29 New York University Journal of International Law "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6700
+#: freeculture.xml:6699
msgid ""
"If, in 1790, you wrote a book and you were one of the 5 percent who actually "
"copyrighted that book, then the copyright law protected you against another "
#. PAGE BREAK 149
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6720
+#: freeculture.xml:6719
msgid ""
"The act left other creators totally unregulated. If I copied your poem by "
"hand, over and over again, as a way to learn it by heart, my act was totally "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6730
+#: freeculture.xml:6729
msgid ""
"Today the story is very different: If you write a book, your book is "
"automatically protected. Indeed, not just your book. Every e-mail, every "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6739
+#: freeculture.xml:6738
msgid ""
"That protection gives you the right (subject to a narrow range of fair use "
"exceptions) to control how others copy the work, whether they copy it to "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6744
+#: freeculture.xml:6743
msgid ""
"That much is the obvious part. Any system of copyright would control "
"competing publishing. But there's a second part to the copyright of today "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6758
+#: freeculture.xml:6757
msgid ""
"It is this derivative right that would seem most bizarre to our framers, "
"though it has become second nature to us. Initially, this expansion was "
#. f14
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6781
+#: freeculture.xml:6780
msgid ""
"Jonathan Zittrain, \"The Copyright Cage,\" Legal Affairs, July/August 2003, "
"available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #26</ulink>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6771
+#: freeculture.xml:6770
msgid ""
"In preventing that joke, the law created an astonishing power within a free "
"culture—at least, it's astonishing when you understand that the law "
#. f15
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6796
+#: freeculture.xml:6795
msgid ""
"Professor Rubenfeld has presented a powerful constitutional argument about "
"the difference that copyright law should draw (from the perspective of the "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6790
+#: freeculture.xml:6789
msgid ""
"Yet copyright law treats these two different wrongs in the same way. I can "
"go to court and get an injunction against your pirating my book. I can go to "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6807
+#: freeculture.xml:6806
msgid ""
"This again may seem right to you. If I wrote a book, then why should you be "
"able to write a movie that takes my story and makes money from it without "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6816
+#: freeculture.xml:6815
msgid ""
"These are good arguments, and, in general, my point is not that the "
"derivative right is unjustified. My aim just now is much narrower: simply to "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:6824
+#: freeculture.xml:6823
msgid "Law and Architecture: Reach"
msgstr ""
#. f16
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6831
+#: freeculture.xml:6830
msgid ""
"This is a simplification of the law, but not much of one. The law certainly "
"regulates more than \"copies\"—a public performance of a copyrighted "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6826
+#: freeculture.xml:6825
msgid ""
"Whereas originally the law regulated only publishers, the change in "
"copyright's scope means that the law today regulates publishers, users, and "
#. PAGE BREAK 151
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6843
+#: freeculture.xml:6842
msgid ""
"\"Copies.\" That certainly sounds like the obvious thing for copyright law "
"to regulate. But as with Jack Valenti's argument at the start of this "
#. f17
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6859
+#: freeculture.xml:6858
msgid ""
"Thus, my argument is not that in each place that copyright law extends, we "
"should repeal it. It is instead that we should have a good argument for its "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6854
+#: freeculture.xml:6853
msgid ""
"This is perhaps the central claim of this book, so let me take this very "
"slowly so that the point is not easily missed. My claim is that the Internet "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6870
+#: freeculture.xml:6869
msgid ""
"We can see this point abstractly by beginning with this largely empty "
"circle."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:6874
+#: freeculture.xml:6873
msgid "All potential uses of a book."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure>
-#: freeculture.xml:6875
+#: freeculture.xml:6874
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1521.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""
#. PAGE BREAK 152
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6879
+#: freeculture.xml:6878
msgid ""
"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, "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:6892
+#: freeculture.xml:6891
msgid "Examples of unregulated uses of a book."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure>
-#: freeculture.xml:6893
+#: freeculture.xml:6892
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1531.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6896
+#: freeculture.xml:6895
msgid ""
"Obviously, however, some uses of a copyrighted book are regulated by "
"copyright law. Republishing the book, for example, makes a copy. It is "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6904
+#: freeculture.xml:6903
msgid ""
"Finally, there is a tiny sliver of otherwise regulated copying uses that "
"remain unregulated because the law considers these \"fair uses.\""
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:6909
+#: freeculture.xml:6908
msgid ""
"Republishing stands at the core of this circle of possible uses of a "
"copyrighted work."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure>
-#: freeculture.xml:6910
+#: freeculture.xml:6909
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1541.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6913
+#: freeculture.xml:6912
msgid ""
"These are uses that themselves involve copying, but which the law treats as "
"unregulated because public policy demands that they remain unregulated. You "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:6924
+#: freeculture.xml:6923
msgid "Unregulated copying considered "fair uses.""
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure>
-#: freeculture.xml:6925
+#: freeculture.xml:6924
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1542.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:6929
+#: freeculture.xml:6928
msgid ""
"Uses that before were presumptively unregulated are now presumptively "
"regulated."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure>
-#: freeculture.xml:6930
+#: freeculture.xml:6929
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1551.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""
#. PAGE BREAK 154
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6934
+#: freeculture.xml:6933
msgid ""
"In real space, then, the possible uses of a book are divided into three "
"sorts: (1) unregulated uses, (2) regulated uses, and (3) regulated uses that "
#. f18
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6942
+#: freeculture.xml:6941
msgid ""
"I don't mean \"nature\" in the sense that it couldn't be different, but "
"rather that its present instantiation entails a copy. Optical networks need "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6939
+#: freeculture.xml:6938
msgid ""
"Enter the Internet—a distributed, digital network where every use of a "
"copyrighted work produces a copy.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
#. PAGE BREAK 155
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6963
+#: freeculture.xml:6962
msgid ""
"So let's be very specific to make this general point clear. Before the "
"Internet, if you purchased a book and read it ten times, there would be no "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6976
+#: freeculture.xml:6975
msgid ""
"But the same book as an e-book is effectively governed by a different set of "
"rules. Now if the copyright owner says you may read the book only once or "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6990
+#: freeculture.xml:6989
msgid ""
"There are some people who think this makes perfect sense. My aim just now is "
"not to argue about whether it makes sense or not. My aim is only to make "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:6996
+#: freeculture.xml:6995
msgid ""
"First, making category 1 disappear is not anything any policy maker ever "
"intended. Congress did not think through the collapse of the presumptively "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7006
+#: freeculture.xml:7005
msgid ""
"Second, this shift is especially troubling in the context of transformative "
"uses of creative content. Again, we can all understand the wrong in "
#. PAGE BREAK 156
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7022
+#: freeculture.xml:7021
msgid ""
"Third, this shift from category 1 to category 2 puts an extraordinary burden "
"on category 3 (\"fair use\") that fair use never before had to bear. If a "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7037
+#: freeculture.xml:7036
msgid ""
"This point about fair use is totally ignored, even by advocates for free "
"culture. We have been cornered into arguing that our rights depend upon fair "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7048
+#: freeculture.xml:7047
msgid ""
"The case of Video Pipeline is a good example. Video Pipeline was in the "
"business of making \"trailer\" advertisements for movies available to video "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7055
+#: freeculture.xml:7054
msgid ""
"The company did this for about fifteen years. Then, in 1997, it began to "
"think about the Internet as another way to distribute these previews. The "
#. PAGE BREAK 157
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7067
+#: freeculture.xml:7066
msgid ""
"In 1998, Video Pipeline informed Disney and other film distributors that it "
"intended to distribute the trailers through the Internet (rather than "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7084
+#: freeculture.xml:7083
msgid ""
"Disney countersued—for $100 million in damages. Those damages were "
"predicated upon a claim that Video Pipeline had \"willfully infringed\" on "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7096
+#: freeculture.xml:7095
msgid ""
"Disney has the right to control its property, of course. But the video "
"stores that were selling Disney's films also had some sort of right to be "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7105
+#: freeculture.xml:7104
msgid ""
"Now, you might think this is a close case, and I think the courts would "
"consider it a close case. My point here is to map the change that gives "
#. PAGE BREAK 158
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7120
+#: freeculture.xml:7119
msgid ""
"No doubt, a potential is not yet an abuse, and so the potential for control "
"is not yet the abuse of control. Barnes & Noble has the right to say you "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7138
+#: freeculture.xml:7137
msgid ""
"Again, my aim so far is simply to map the changes that this changed "
"architecture enables. Enabling technology to enforce the control of "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:7148
+#: freeculture.xml:7147
msgid "Architecture and Law: Force"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7150
+#: freeculture.xml:7149
msgid ""
"The disappearance of unregulated uses would be change enough, but a second "
"important change brought about by the Internet magnifies its "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7156
+#: freeculture.xml:7155
msgid ""
"In the world before digital technology, it was generally the law that "
"controlled whether and how someone was regulated by copyright law. The law, "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:7163
+#: freeculture.xml:7162
msgid "Casablanca"
msgstr ""
#. f19
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7172
+#: freeculture.xml:7171
msgid ""
"See David Lange, \"Recognizing the Public Domain,\" Law and Contemporary "
"Problems 44 (1981): 172–73."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7165
+#: freeculture.xml:7164
msgid ""
"There's a famous story about a battle between the Marx Brothers and Warner "
"Brothers. The Marxes intended to make a parody of Casablanca. Warner "
#. f20
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7182
+#: freeculture.xml:7181
msgid "Ibid. See also Vaidhyanathan, Copyrights and Copywrongs, 1–3."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7178
+#: freeculture.xml:7177
msgid ""
"This led the Marx Brothers to respond in kind. They warned Warner Brothers "
"that the Marx Brothers \"were brothers long before you were.\"<placeholder "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7189
+#: freeculture.xml:7188
msgid ""
"An absurd and hollow threat, of course, because Warner Brothers, like the "
"Marx Brothers, knew that no court would ever enforce such a silly "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7195
+#: freeculture.xml:7194
msgid ""
"On the Internet, however, there is no check on silly rules, because on the "
"Internet, increasingly, rules are enforced not by a human but by a machine: "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7206
+#: freeculture.xml:7205
msgid "Consider the life of my Adobe eBook Reader."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7209
+#: freeculture.xml:7208
msgid ""
"An e-book is a book delivered in electronic form. An Adobe eBook is not a "
"book that Adobe has published; Adobe simply produces the software that "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7216
+#: freeculture.xml:7215
msgid "On the next page is a picture of an old version of my Adobe eBook Reader."
msgstr ""
#. PAGE BREAK 160
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7220
+#: freeculture.xml:7219
msgid ""
"As you can see, I have a small collection of e-books within this e-book "
"library. Some of these books reproduce content that is in the public domain: "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:7231
+#: freeculture.xml:7230
msgid "Picture of an old version of Adobe eBook Reader"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure>
-#: freeculture.xml:7232
+#: freeculture.xml:7231
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1611.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7235
+#: freeculture.xml:7234
msgid ""
"If you click on the Permissions button, you'll see a list of the permissions "
"that the publisher purports to grant with this book."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:7239
+#: freeculture.xml:7238
msgid "List of the permissions that the publisher purports to grant."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure>
-#: freeculture.xml:7240
+#: freeculture.xml:7239
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1612.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""
#. PAGE BREAK 161
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7244
+#: freeculture.xml:7243
msgid ""
"According to my eBook Reader, I have the permission to copy to the clipboard "
"of the computer ten text selections every ten days. (So far, I've copied no "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7260
+#: freeculture.xml:7259
msgid ""
"Here's the e-book for another work in the public domain (including the "
"translation): Aristotle's Politics."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:7264
+#: freeculture.xml:7263
msgid "E-book of Aristotle;s "Politics""
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure>
-#: freeculture.xml:7265
+#: freeculture.xml:7264
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1621.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7268
+#: freeculture.xml:7267
msgid ""
"According to its permissions, no printing or copying is permitted at "
"all. But fortunately, you can use the Read Aloud button to hear the book."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:7273
+#: freeculture.xml:7272
msgid "List of the permissions for Aristotle;s "Politics"."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure>
-#: freeculture.xml:7274
+#: freeculture.xml:7273
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1622.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7277
+#: freeculture.xml:7276
msgid ""
"Finally (and most embarrassingly), here are the permissions for the original "
"e-book version of my last book, The Future of Ideas:"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:7282
+#: freeculture.xml:7281
msgid "List of the permissions for "The Future of Ideas"."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure>
-#: freeculture.xml:7283
+#: freeculture.xml:7282
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1631.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7286
+#: freeculture.xml:7285
msgid "No copying, no printing, and don't you dare try to listen to this book!"
msgstr ""
#. f21
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7296
+#: freeculture.xml:7295
msgid ""
"In principle, a contract might impose a requirement on me. I might, for "
"example, buy a book from you that includes a contract that says I will read "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7289
+#: freeculture.xml:7288
msgid ""
"Now, the Adobe eBook Reader calls these controls \"permissions\"— as "
"if the publisher has the power to control how you use these works. For "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7311
+#: freeculture.xml:7310
msgid ""
"The control comes instead from the code—from the technology within "
"which the e-book \"lives.\" Though the e-book says that these are "
#. PAGE BREAK 163
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7329
+#: freeculture.xml:7328
msgid ""
"These are controls, not permissions. Imagine a world where the Marx Brothers "
"sold word processing software that, when you tried to type \"Warner "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7334
+#: freeculture.xml:7333
msgid ""
"This is the future of copyright law: not so much copyright law as copyright "
"code. The controls over access to content will not be controls that are "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7342
+#: freeculture.xml:7341
msgid ""
"How significant is this? Isn't it always possible to get around the controls "
"built into the technology? Software used to be sold with technologies that "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7350
+#: freeculture.xml:7349
msgid ""
"We've only scratched the surface of this story. Return to the Adobe eBook "
"Reader."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7354
+#: freeculture.xml:7353
msgid ""
"Early in the life of the Adobe eBook Reader, Adobe suffered a public "
"relations nightmare. Among the books that you could download for free on the "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:7362
+#: freeculture.xml:7361
msgid "List of the permissions for "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure>
-#: freeculture.xml:7364
+#: freeculture.xml:7363
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1641.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""
#. PAGE BREAK 164
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7368
+#: freeculture.xml:7367
msgid ""
"Here was a public domain children's book that you were not allowed to copy, "
"not allowed to lend, not allowed to give, and, as the \"permissions\" "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7375
+#: freeculture.xml:7374
msgid ""
"The public relations nightmare attached to that final permission. For the "
"text did not say that you were not permitted to use the Read Aloud button; "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7383
+#: freeculture.xml:7382
msgid ""
"Adobe responded quickly that it was absurd to think that it was trying to "
"restrict the right to read a book aloud. Obviously it was only restricting "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7396
+#: freeculture.xml:7395
msgid ""
"The point is not to blame Adobe. Indeed, Adobe is among the most innovative "
"companies developing strategies to balance open access to content with "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7404
+#: freeculture.xml:7403
msgid ""
"To see the point in a particularly absurd context, consider a favorite story "
"of mine that makes the same point."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:7407 freeculture.xml:7449
+#: freeculture.xml:7406 freeculture.xml:7448
msgid "Aibo robotic dog"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7409
+#: freeculture.xml:7408
msgid ""
"Consider the robotic dog made by Sony named \"Aibo.\" The Aibo learns "
"tricks, cuddles, and follows you around. It eats only electricity and that "
#. PAGE BREAK 165
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7414
+#: freeculture.xml:7413
msgid ""
"The Aibo is expensive and popular. Fans from around the world have set up "
"clubs to trade stories. One fan in particular set up a Web site to enable "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7423
+#: freeculture.xml:7422
msgid ""
"\"Teach\" here has a special meaning. Aibos are just cute computers. You "
"teach a computer how to do something by programming it differently. So to "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7431
+#: freeculture.xml:7430
msgid ""
"If you're not a programmer or don't know many programmers, the word hack has "
"a particularly unfriendly connotation. Nonprogrammers hack bushes or "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7443
+#: freeculture.xml:7442
msgid ""
"Some hacks are easy. Some are unbelievably hard. Hackers as a community like "
"to challenge themselves and others with increasingly difficult "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7451
+#: freeculture.xml:7450
msgid ""
"The Aibo fan was displaying a bit of both when he hacked the program and "
"offered to the world a bit of code that would enable the Aibo to dance "
#. PAGE BREAK 166
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7458
+#: freeculture.xml:7457
msgid ""
"I've told this story in many contexts, both inside and outside the United "
"States. Once I was asked by a puzzled member of the audience, is it "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7474
+#: freeculture.xml:7473
msgid ""
"Let's put the dog to sleep for a minute, and turn to a pony show— not "
"literally a pony show, but rather a paper that a Princeton academic named Ed "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:7497 freeculture.xml:9925
+#: freeculture.xml:7496 freeculture.xml:9925
msgid "Electronic Frontier Foundation"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7487
+#: freeculture.xml:7486
msgid ""
"See Pamela Samuelson, \"Anticircumvention Rules: Threat to Science,\" "
"Science 293 (2001): 2028; Brendan I. Koerner, \"Play Dead: Sony Muzzles the "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7485
+#: freeculture.xml:7484
msgid ""
"But Felten's bravery was really tested in April 2001.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> He and a group of colleagues were working on a "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7505
+#: freeculture.xml:7504
msgid ""
"The SDMI coalition had as its goal a technology to enable content owners to "
"exercise much better control over their content than the Internet, as it "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7515
+#: freeculture.xml:7514
msgid ""
"When SDMI thought it was close to a standard, it set up a competition. In "
"exchange for providing contestants with the code to an SDMI-encrypted bit of "
#. PAGE BREAK 167
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7522
+#: freeculture.xml:7521
msgid ""
"Felten and his team figured out the encryption system quickly. He and the "
"team saw the weakness of this system as a type: Many encryption systems "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7528
+#: freeculture.xml:7527
msgid ""
"Let's review just what Felten was doing. Again, this is the United "
"States. We have a principle of free speech. We have this principle not just "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7536
+#: freeculture.xml:7535
msgid ""
"What Felten and his colleagues were doing was publishing a paper describing "
"the weakness in a technology. They were not spreading free music, or "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7544
+#: freeculture.xml:7543
msgid ""
"What links these two, aibopet.com and Felten, is the letters they then "
"received. Aibopet.com received a letter from Sony about the aibopet.com "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><blockquote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7551
+#: freeculture.xml:7550
msgid ""
"Your site contains information providing the means to circumvent AIBO-ware's "
"copy protection protocol constituting a violation of the anti-circumvention "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7557
+#: freeculture.xml:7556
msgid ""
"And though an academic paper describing the weakness in a system of "
"encryption should also be perfectly legal, Felten received a letter from an "
#. PAGE BREAK 168
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><blockquote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7563
+#: freeculture.xml:7562
msgid ""
"Any disclosure of information gained from participating in the Public "
"Challenge would be outside the scope of activities permitted by the "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7571
+#: freeculture.xml:7570
msgid ""
"In both cases, this weirdly Orwellian law was invoked to control the spread "
"of information. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act made spreading such "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7576
+#: freeculture.xml:7575
msgid ""
"The DMCA was enacted as a response to copyright owners' first fear about "
"cyberspace. The fear was that copyright control was effectively dead; the "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7585
+#: freeculture.xml:7584
msgid ""
"The DMCA was a bit of law intended to back up the protection of this code "
"designed to protect copyrighted material. It was, we could say, legal code "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7591
+#: freeculture.xml:7590
msgid ""
"But the DMCA was not designed merely to protect copyrighted works to the "
"extent copyright law protected them. Its protection, that is, did not end at "
#. PAGE BREAK 169
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7600
+#: freeculture.xml:7599
msgid ""
"Aibopet.com and Felten make the point. The Aibo hack circumvented a "
"copyright protection system for the purpose of enabling the dog to dance "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7612
+#: freeculture.xml:7611
msgid ""
"The threat against Felten was more attenuated, but it followed the same line "
"of reasoning. By publishing a paper describing how a copyright protection "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7620
+#: freeculture.xml:7619
msgid ""
"The bizarreness of these arguments is captured in a cartoon drawn in 1981 by "
"Paul Conrad. At that time, a court in California had held that the VCR could "
#. f23
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7646
+#: freeculture.xml:7645
msgid ""
"Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417, "
"455 fn. 27 (1984). Rogers never changed his view about the VCR. See James "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><blockquote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7631
+#: freeculture.xml:7630
msgid ""
"Some public stations, as well as commercial stations, program the "
"\"Neighborhood\" at hours when some children cannot use it. I think that "
#. PAGE BREAK 170
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7655
+#: freeculture.xml:7654
msgid ""
"Even though there were uses that were legal, because there were some uses "
"that were illegal, the court held the companies producing the VCR "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7660
+#: freeculture.xml:7659
msgid "This led Conrad to draw the cartoon below, which we can adopt to the DMCA."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7664
+#: freeculture.xml:7663
msgid "No argument I have can top this picture, but let me try to get close."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7667
+#: freeculture.xml:7666
msgid ""
"The anticircumvention provisions of the DMCA target copyright circumvention "
"technologies. Circumvention technologies can be used for different "
#. PAGE BREAK 171
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7675
+#: freeculture.xml:7674
msgid ""
"A handgun can be used to shoot a police officer or a child. Most would agree "
"such a use is bad. Or a handgun can be used for target practice or to "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:7683
+#: freeculture.xml:7682
msgid "VCR/handgun cartoon."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure>
-#: freeculture.xml:7684
+#: freeculture.xml:7683
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1711.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7687
+#: freeculture.xml:7686
msgid ""
"The obvious point of Conrad's cartoon is the weirdness of a world where guns "
"are legal, despite the harm they can do, while VCRs (and circumvention "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7695
+#: freeculture.xml:7694
msgid ""
"The Aibo and RIAA examples demonstrate how copyright owners are changing the "
"balance that copyright law grants. Using code, copyright owners restrict "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7703
+#: freeculture.xml:7702
msgid ""
"This is how code becomes law. The controls built into the technology of copy "
"and access protection become rules the violation of which is also a "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7713
+#: freeculture.xml:7712
msgid ""
"There is one final aspect of the interaction between architecture and law "
"that contributes to the force of copyright's regulation. This is the ease "
#. f24
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7732
+#: freeculture.xml:7731
msgid ""
"For an early and prescient analysis, see Rebecca Tushnet, \"Legal Fictions, "
"Copyright, Fan Fiction, and a New Common Law,\" Loyola of Los Angeles "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7726
+#: freeculture.xml:7725
msgid ""
"For example, imagine you were part of a Star Trek fan club. You gathered "
"every month to share trivia, and maybe to enact a kind of fan fiction about "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7738
+#: freeculture.xml:7737
msgid ""
"Before the Internet, this was, in effect, a totally unregulated activity. "
"No matter what happened inside your club room, you would never be interfered "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7745
+#: freeculture.xml:7744
msgid ""
"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 "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7755
+#: freeculture.xml:7754
msgid ""
"This change in the effective force of the law is caused by a change in the "
"ease with which the law can be enforced. That change too shifts the law's "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:7764
+#: freeculture.xml:7763
msgid "Market: Concentration"
msgstr ""
#. PAGE BREAK 173
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7766
+#: freeculture.xml:7765
msgid ""
"So copyright's duration has increased dramatically—tripled in the past "
"thirty years. And copyright's scope has increased as well—from "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7784
+#: freeculture.xml:7783
msgid ""
"Still, in my view, all of these changes would not matter much if it weren't "
"for one more change that we must also consider. This is a change that is in "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7791
+#: freeculture.xml:7790
msgid ""
"This is the change in the concentration and integration of the media. In "
"the past twenty years, the nature of media ownership has undergone a radical "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7802
+#: freeculture.xml:7801
msgid "These changes are of two sorts: the scope of concentration, and its nature."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:7805
+#: freeculture.xml:7804
msgid "BMG"
msgstr ""
#. f25
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7811
+#: freeculture.xml:7810
msgid ""
"FCC Oversight: Hearing Before the Senate Commerce, Science and "
"Transportation Committee, 108th Cong., 1st sess. (22 May 2003) (statement "
#. f26
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7818
+#: freeculture.xml:7817
msgid ""
"Lynette Holloway, \"Despite a Marketing Blitz, CD Sales Continue to Slide,\" "
"New York Times, 23 December 2002."
#. f27
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7824
+#: freeculture.xml:7823
msgid ""
"Molly Ivins, \"Media Consolidation Must Be Stopped,\" Charleston Gazette, 31 "
"May 2003."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7807
+#: freeculture.xml:7806
msgid ""
"Changes in scope are the easier ones to describe. As Senator John McCain "
"summarized the data produced in the FCC's review of media ownership, \"five "
#. PAGE BREAK 174
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7829
+#: freeculture.xml:7828
msgid ""
"The story with radio is even more dramatic. Before deregulation, the "
"nation's largest radio broadcasting conglomerate owned fewer than "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7840
+#: freeculture.xml:7839
msgid ""
"Newspaper ownership is becoming more concentrated as well. Today, there are "
"six hundred fewer daily newspapers in the United States than there were "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><blockquote><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:7854 freeculture.xml:7871
+#: freeculture.xml:7853 freeculture.xml:7870
msgid "Fallows, James"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7851
+#: freeculture.xml:7850
msgid ""
"Concentration in size alone is one thing. The more invidious change is in "
"the nature of that concentration. As author James Fallows put it in a recent "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7869
+#: freeculture.xml:7868
msgid ""
"James Fallows, \"The Age of Murdoch,\" Atlantic Monthly (September 2003): "
"89. <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><blockquote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7858
+#: freeculture.xml:7857
msgid ""
"Murdoch's companies now constitute a production system unmatched in its "
"integration. They supply content—Fox movies . . . Fox TV shows "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7876
+#: freeculture.xml:7875
msgid ""
"The pattern with Murdoch is the pattern of modern media. Not just large "
"companies owning many radio stations, but a few companies owning as many "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure><title>
-#: freeculture.xml:7882
+#: freeculture.xml:7881
msgid "Pattern of modern media ownership."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><figure>
-#: freeculture.xml:7883
+#: freeculture.xml:7882
msgid "<graphic fileref=\"images/1761.png\"></graphic>"
msgstr ""
#. PAGE BREAK 175
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7887
+#: freeculture.xml:7886
msgid ""
"Does this concentration matter? Will it affect what is made, or what is "
"distributed? Or is it merely a more efficient way to produce and distribute "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7892
+#: freeculture.xml:7891
msgid ""
"My view was that concentration wouldn't matter. I thought it was nothing "
"more than a more efficient financial structure. But now, after reading and "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7898
+#: freeculture.xml:7897
msgid ""
"Here's a representative story that begins to suggest how this integration "
"may matter."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:7901
+#: freeculture.xml:7900
msgid "Lear, Norman"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:7903 freeculture.xml:7967
+#: freeculture.xml:7902 freeculture.xml:7966
msgid "All in the Family"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7905
+#: freeculture.xml:7904
msgid ""
"In 1969, Norman Lear created a pilot for All in the Family. He took the "
"pilot to ABC. The network didn't like it. It was too edgy, they told "
#. f29
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7917
+#: freeculture.xml:7916
msgid ""
"Leonard Hill, \"The Axis of Access,\" remarks before Weidenbaum Center "
"Forum, \"Entertainment Economics: The Movie Industry,\" St. Louis, Missouri, "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7912
+#: freeculture.xml:7911
msgid ""
"Rather than comply, Lear simply took the show elsewhere. CBS was happy to "
"have the series; ABC could not stop Lear from walking. The copyrights that "
#. PAGE BREAK 176
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7929
+#: freeculture.xml:7928
msgid ""
"The network did not control those copyrights because the law forbade the "
"networks from controlling the content they syndicated. The law required a "
#. f30
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7948
+#: freeculture.xml:7947
msgid ""
"NewsCorp./DirecTV Merger and Media Consolidation: Hearings on Media "
"Ownership Before the Senate Commerce Committee, 108th Cong., 1st "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7938
+#: freeculture.xml:7937
msgid ""
"In 1994, the FCC abandoned the rules that required this independence. After "
"that change, the networks quickly changed the balance. In 1985, there were "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7969
+#: freeculture.xml:7968
msgid ""
"Today, another Norman Lear with another All in the Family would find that he "
"had the choice either to make the show less edgy or to be fired: The content "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7975
+#: freeculture.xml:7974
msgid ""
"While the number of channels has increased dramatically, the ownership of "
"those channels has narrowed to an ever smaller and smaller few. As Barry "
#. f32
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><blockquote><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7990
+#: freeculture.xml:7989
msgid ""
"\"Barry Diller Takes on Media Deregulation,\" Now with Bill Moyers, Bill "
"Moyers, 25 April 2003, edited transcript available at <ulink "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><blockquote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7981
+#: freeculture.xml:7980
msgid ""
"Well, if you have companies that produce, that finance, that air on their "
"channel and then distribute worldwide everything that goes through their "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:7997
+#: freeculture.xml:7996
msgid ""
"This narrowing has an effect on what is produced. The product of such large "
"and concentrated networks is increasingly homogenous. Increasingly "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><indexterm><primary>
-#: freeculture.xml:8008
+#: freeculture.xml:8007
msgid "Clark, Kim B."
msgstr ""
#. f33
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:8017
+#: freeculture.xml:8016
msgid ""
"Clayton M. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary National "
"Bestseller that Changed the Way We Do Business (Cambridge: Harvard Business "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
-#: freeculture.xml:8010
+#: freeculture.xml:8009
msgid ""
"Economics itself offers a parallel that explains why this integration "
"affects creativity. Clay Christensen has written about the \"Innovator's "
"would find it rational to ignore new cultural trends.<placeholder "
"type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Lumbering giants not only don't, but should "
"not, sprint. Yet if the field is only open to the giants, there will be far "
-"too little sprinting."
+"too little sprinting. <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
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