From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 20:43:31 +0000 (+0200) Subject: More index entries. X-Git-Tag: edition-2015-10-10~1634 X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/text-free-culture-lessig.git/commitdiff_plain/0cbd01f9874f607b184a6b68f01912351016bb25 More index entries. --- diff --git a/freeculture.xml b/freeculture.xml index db78de4..9c0be02 100644 --- a/freeculture.xml +++ b/freeculture.xml @@ -420,6 +420,7 @@ changes I describe affect values that both sides of our political culture deem fundamental. CodePink Women in Peace +Stevens, Ted We saw a glimpse of this bipartisan outrage in the early summer of 2003. As the FCC considered changes in media ownership rules that @@ -1581,6 +1582,7 @@ For an excellent history, see Scott McCloud, Reinventing Comics +Superman comics American comics now are quite different, Winick explains, in part because of the legal difficulty of adapting comics the way doujinshi are @@ -2299,6 +2301,7 @@ people vote in those elections. The cycle of these elections has become totally professionalized and routinized. Most of us think this is democracy. +Tocqueville, Alexis de But democracy has never just been about elections. Democracy means rule by the people, but rule means something more than mere @@ -2370,6 +2373,7 @@ but for blogs. Yet even if the number of readers is small, the reading is having an effect. Dean, Howard +Thurmond, Strom One direct effect is on stories that had a different life cycle in the mainstream media. The Trent Lott affair is an example. When Lott @@ -2738,6 +2742,7 @@ RPI community to get access to content, which Jesse had not himself created or posted, and the vast majority of which had nothing to do with music. +statutory damages But the RIAA branded Jesse a pirate. They claimed he operated a network and had therefore willfully violated copyright laws. They @@ -4619,6 +4624,7 @@ allowed to make his films. The copy-right was only an exclusive right to print—no less, of course, but also no more. Henry VIII, King of England +Statute of Monopolies (1656) Even that limited right was viewed with skepticism by the British. They had had a long and ugly experience with exclusive rights, @@ -4796,6 +4802,7 @@ The London booksellers quickly brought suit to block piracy like Donaldson's. A number of actions were successful against the pirates, the most important early victory being Millar v. Taylor. +Taylor, Robert Millar was a bookseller who in 1729 had purchased the rights to James Thomson's poem The Seasons. Millar complied with the requirements of @@ -5267,6 +5274,7 @@ we put together a team, my assistant and some others, and we just started calling people. +Sutherland, Donald Some actors were glad to help—Donald Sutherland, for example, followed up himself to be sure that the rights had been cleared. @@ -5623,6 +5631,7 @@ Internet Archive was just the first of the projects of this Andrew Carnegie of the Internet. By December of 2002, the archive had over 10 billion pages, and it was growing at about a billion pages a month. +Vanderbilt University 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 @@ -6340,6 +6349,7 @@ innovative marketing techniques, (3) technologists should push to develop code to protect copyrighted material, and (4) educators should educate kids to better protect copyright. +steel industry This mixed strategy is just what copyright needed—if it was to preserve the particular balance that existed before the change induced @@ -9571,6 +9581,7 @@ It has been mirrored in the responses threatened and actually implemented by Congress. I won't catalog all of those responses here. +Tauzin, Billy For example, in July 2002, Representative Howard Berman introduced the Peer-to-Peer Piracy Prevention Act (H.R. 5211), which would immunize copyright holders from liability for damage done to computers when the @@ -11211,6 +11222,7 @@ hear the case. Cases are ordinarily heard in panels of three, except for important cases or cases that raise issues specific to the circuit as a whole, where the court will sit en banc to hear the case. +Tatel, David The Court of Appeals rejected our request to hear the case en banc. This time, Judge Sentelle was joined by the most liberal member of the @@ -12724,6 +12736,7 @@ produce the perfect storm for free culture. biomedical research +Wellcome Trust In August 2003, a fight broke out in the United States about a decision by the World Intellectual Property Organization to cancel a @@ -13046,6 +13059,8 @@ It might be crazy to argue that we should preserve a tradition that has been part of our tradition for most of our history—free culture. CodePink Women in Peace +Safire, William +Turner, Ted If this is crazy, then let there be more crazies. Soon. There are moments of hope in this struggle. And moments that surprise. When the @@ -13057,8 +13072,6 @@ the ACLU, Moveon.org, William Safire, Ted Turner, and CodePink Women for Peace organized to oppose this change in FCC policy. An astonishing 700,000 letters were sent to the FCC, demanding more hearings and a different result. -Turner, Ted -Safire, William This activism did not stop the FCC, but soon after, a broad coalition @@ -13399,6 +13412,7 @@ economics of computing. And as he believed, if he did nothing about it, then the freedom to change and share software would be fundamentally weakened. +Torvalds, Linus Therefore, in 1984, Stallman began a project to build a free operating system, so that at least a strain of free software would survive. That