From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:23:58 +0000 (+0200) Subject: New index entry. X-Git-Tag: edition-2015-10-10~2023 X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/text-free-culture-lessig.git/commitdiff_plain/fd34c9d6bff45327c5e2a443b5f6ed9c4adade4e?ds=inline New index entry. --- diff --git a/freeculture.xml b/freeculture.xml index 9023419..586d326 100644 --- a/freeculture.xml +++ b/freeculture.xml @@ -7128,9 +7128,10 @@ your freedom. 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 Brothers objected. They wrote a nasty letter to the -Marxes, warning them that there would be serious legal consequences -if they went forward with their plan. +Casablanca. Warner Brothers objected. They +wrote a nasty letter to the Marxes, warning them that there would be +serious legal consequences if they went forward with their +plan. See David Lange, "Recognizing the Public Domain," Law and Contemporary Problems 44 (1981): 172–73. @@ -7141,12 +7142,14 @@ This led the Marx Brothers to respond in kind. They warned Warner Brothers that the Marx Brothers "were brothers long before you were." -Ibid. See also Vaidhyanathan, Copyrights and Copywrongs, 1–3. +Ibid. See also Vaidhyanathan, Copyrights and +Copywrongs, 1–3. Vaidhyanathan, Siva -The Marx Brothers therefore owned the word brothers, -and if Warner Brothers insisted on trying to control Casablanca, then -the Marx Brothers would insist on control over brothers. +The Marx Brothers therefore owned the word +brothers, and if Warner Brothers insisted on +trying to control Casablanca, then the Marx +Brothers would insist on control over brothers. An absurd and hollow threat, of course, because Warner Brothers, @@ -7166,30 +7169,36 @@ consequence of that is not at all funny. + + + Adobe eBook Reader + Consider the life of my Adobe eBook Reader. -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 publishers use to deliver e-books. It provides the - technology, -and the publisher delivers the content by using the technology. +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 publishers use to deliver e-books. It provides the +technology, and the publisher delivers the content by using the +technology. On the next page is a picture of an old version of my Adobe eBook Reader. -As you can see, I have a small collection of e-books within this +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: Middlemarch, for example, is in the public domain. -Some of them reproduce content that is not in the public domain: My -own book The Future of Ideas is not yet within the public domain. -Consider Middlemarch first. If you click on my e-book copy of +public domain: Middlemarch, for example, is in +the public domain. Some of them reproduce content that is not in the +public domain: My own book The Future of Ideas +is not yet within the public domain. Consider +Middlemarch first. If you click on my e-book +copy of -Middlemarch, you'll see a fancy cover, and then a button at the bottom -called Permissions. +Middlemarch, you'll see a fancy cover, and then +a button at the bottom called Permissions.
Picture of an old version of Adobe eBook Reader @@ -7326,11 +7335,9 @@ Wonderland".
-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" -indicated, not allowed to "read aloud"! +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" indicated, not allowed to "read aloud"! The public relations nightmare attached to that final permission. @@ -7361,6 +7368,7 @@ technology enables control, and Adobe has an incentive to defend this control. That incentive is understandable, yet what it creates is often crazy. + To see the point in a particularly absurd context, consider a favorite story of mine that makes the same point.