From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 19:46:34 +0000 (+0200) Subject: More index entries. X-Git-Tag: edition-2015-10-10~1800 X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/text-free-culture-lessig.git/commitdiff_plain/c89cef68ae8fcc8f143df182d789c2ab64d9104e More index entries. --- diff --git a/freeculture.xml b/freeculture.xml index e3c59c8..ec731f3 100644 --- a/freeculture.xml +++ b/freeculture.xml @@ -1227,6 +1227,7 @@ Byzantine complexity that copyright law has become. It was just one more expense of doing business. Florida, Richard +Rise of the Creative Class (Florida) But with the birth of the Internet, this natural limit to the reach of the law has disappeared. The law controls not just the creativity of @@ -1244,17 +1245,20 @@ commercial and noncommercial creativity, the law burdens this creativity with insanely complex and vague rules and with the threat of obscenely severe penalties. We may -be seeing, as Richard Florida writes, the "Rise of the Creative Class." +be seeing, as Richard Florida writes, the "Rise of the Creative +Class." -In The Rise of the Creative Class (New York: Basic Books, 2002), -Richard Florida documents a shift in the nature of labor toward a -labor of creativity. His work, however, doesn't directly address the -legal conditions under which that creativity is enabled or stifled. I -certainly agree with him about the importance and significance of this -change, but I also believe the conditions under which it will be -enabled are much more tenuous. +In The Rise of the Creative Class (New York: +Basic Books, 2002), Richard Florida documents a shift in the nature of +labor toward a labor of creativity. His work, however, doesn't +directly address the legal conditions under which that creativity is +enabled or stifled. I certainly agree with him about the importance +and significance of this change, but I also believe the conditions +under which it will be enabled are much more tenuous. + Florida, Richard +Rise of the Creative Class (Florida) Unfortunately, we are also seeing an extraordinary rise of regulation of this creative class. @@ -2592,6 +2596,10 @@ quipped to me in a rare moment of despondence. CHAPTER THREE: Catalogs +RPIRensselaer Polytechnic Institute + + Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) + In the fall of 2002, Jesse Jordan of Oceanside, New York, enrolled as a freshman at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, New York. @@ -2729,6 +2737,7 @@ Suit Alleges $97.8 Billion in Damages," Professional Media Group LCC< (2003): 5, available at 2003 WL 55179443. + Jesse called his parents. They were supportive but a bit frightened. An uncle was a lawyer. He began negotiations with the RIAA. They @@ -9103,6 +9112,7 @@ Consider one example to make the point, a story whose beginning I told in The Future of Ideas and which has progressed in a way that even I (pessimist extraordinaire) would never have predicted. +Roberts, Michael In 1997, Michael Roberts launched a company called MP3.com. MP3.com was keen to remake the music business. Their goal was not just to