From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:07:48 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Two new indexes. X-Git-Tag: edition-2015-10-10~2221 X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/text-free-culture-lessig.git/commitdiff_plain/b7ed066503ae12013b49aedff26be830c6b3af41 Two new indexes. --- diff --git a/freeculture.xml b/freeculture.xml index 3472c9e..9b3720a 100644 --- a/freeculture.xml +++ b/freeculture.xml @@ -1037,12 +1037,14 @@ to which most of us remain oblivious. "PIRACY" + + Mansfield, William Murray, Lord + -Since the inception of the law regulating creative property, there -has been a war against "piracy." The precise contours of this concept, -"piracy," are hard to sketch, but the animating injustice is easy to - capture. -As Lord Mansfield wrote in a case that extended the reach of +Since the inception of the law regulating creative property, there has +been a war against "piracy." The precise contours of this concept, +"piracy," are hard to sketch, but the animating injustice is easy to +capture. As Lord Mansfield wrote in a case that extended the reach of English copyright law to include sheet music,
@@ -1054,16 +1056,15 @@ of them for his own use. Bach v. Longman, 98 Eng. Rep. 1274 (1777) (Mansfield). +
Today we are in the middle of another "war" against "piracy." The -Internet has provoked this war. The Internet makes possible the - efficient -spread of content. Peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing is among the -most efficient of the efficient technologies the Internet enables. Using -distributed intelligence, p2p systems facilitate the easy spread of - content -in a way unimagined a generation ago. +Internet has provoked this war. The Internet makes possible the +efficient spread of content. Peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing is among +the most efficient of the efficient technologies the Internet +enables. Using distributed intelligence, p2p systems facilitate the +easy spread of content in a way unimagined a generation ago. @@ -4710,6 +4711,9 @@ Exploding the Myth of Common Law Copyright," Wayne Law Review 29 (1983): 1152. + + Mansfield, William Murray, Lord + Astonishingly to modern lawyers, one of the greatest judges in English history, Lord Mansfield, agreed with the booksellers. Whatever @@ -4735,6 +4739,7 @@ a reasonable period of time. Within twenty-one years, Parliament believed, Britain would mature from the controlled culture that the Crown coveted to the free culture that we inherited. + 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.