From 731c0251e7e84f10926bd93852f2458504dfa4b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:36:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] More index entries. --- freeculture.xml | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/freeculture.xml b/freeculture.xml index 76fef66..a0fbdec 100644 --- a/freeculture.xml +++ b/freeculture.xml @@ -623,6 +623,9 @@ allowed to defeat an obvious public gain. + + Armstrong, Edwin Howard + Edwin Howard Armstrong is one of America's forgotten inventor geniuses. He came to the great American inventor scene just after the @@ -772,6 +775,7 @@ would not even cover Armstrong's lawyers' fees. Defeated, broken, and now broke, in 1954 Armstrong wrote a short note to his wife and then stepped out of a thirteenth-story window to his death. + This is how the law sometimes works. Not often this tragically, and rarely with heroic drama, but sometimes, this is how it works. From @@ -2467,6 +2471,7 @@ request. Last year Steve Olafson, a Houston Chronicle rep fired for keeping a personal Web log, published under a pseudonym, that dealt with some of the issues and people he was covering.) CNN +Olafson, Steve But it is clear that we are still in transition. A @@ -2770,6 +2775,7 @@ demanded to know how much money Jesse had. Jesse had saved $12,000 from summer jobs and other employment. They demanded $12,000 to dismiss the case. +Oppenheimer, Matt The RIAA wanted Jesse to admit to doing something wrong. He refused. They wanted him to agree to an injunction that would @@ -5504,6 +5510,9 @@ the world. Using a technology called the Way Back Machine, you co enter a Web page, and see all of its copies going back to 1996, as well as when those pages changed. + + Orwell, George + This is the thing about the Internet that Orwell would have appreciated. In the dystopia described in 1984, old newspapers were @@ -5524,6 +5533,7 @@ the same as the content you read before. The page may seem the same, but the content could easily be different. The Internet is Orwell's library—constantly updated, without any reliable memory. + Until the Way Back Machine, at least. With the Way Back Machine, and the Internet Archive underlying it, you can see what the Internet @@ -6073,6 +6083,7 @@ with a $150,000 fine. The fine is an ex post punishment for violating an ex ante rule. It is imposed by the state. Madonna +norms, regulatory influence of Norms are a different kind of constraint. They, too, punish an individual for violating a rule. But the punishment of a norm is @@ -6133,6 +6144,7 @@ must consider how these four in particular interact. architecture, constraint effected through market constraints +norms, regulatory influence of 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 @@ -6240,6 +6252,8 @@ Internet: Copyright's regulation before the Internet. +market constraints +norms, regulatory influence of There is balance between law, norms, market, and architecture. The law @@ -6253,7 +6267,6 @@ uses of copyrighted material may well be infringement, but the norms of our society (before the Internet, at least) had no problem with this form of infringement. -market constraints Enter the Internet, or, more precisely, technologies such as MP3s and p2p sharing. Now the constraint of architecture changes dramatically, @@ -8941,6 +8954,7 @@ the side of the Causbys and the content industry. The extreme claims of control in the name of property still resonate; the uncritical rejection of piracy still has play. +Armstrong, Edwin Howard There will be many consequences of continuing this war. I want to @@ -9039,6 +9053,7 @@ the maximum fine for downloading two songs off the Internet is more than the fine for a doctor's negligently butchering a patient? Worldcom +art, underground The consequence of this legal uncertainty, tied to these extremely high penalties, is that an extraordinary amount of creativity will @@ -9580,6 +9595,7 @@ easily develop and market their content to a relatively large number of users worldwide. According to some estimates, more than eighty million users worldwide have tuned in to this new form of radio. +Armstrong, Edwin Howard @@ -11407,6 +11423,7 @@ Between February and October, there was little I did beyond preparing for this case. Early on, as I said, I set the strategy. Rehnquist, William H. +O'Connor, Sandra Day The Supreme Court was divided into two important camps. One camp we called the Conservatives. The other we called the Rest. The @@ -11584,6 +11601,7 @@ where I intended to stay: on the question of the limits on Congress's power. This was a case about enumerated powers, I said, and whether those enumerated powers had any limit. +O'Connor, Sandra Day Justice O'Connor stopped me within one minute of my opening. The history was bothering her. @@ -11671,6 +11689,7 @@ Amendment analysis or under a proper reading of the limits built into the Copyright Clause. +Olson, Theodore B. Things went better for us when the government gave its argument; for now the Court picked up on the core of our claim. As Justice Scalia @@ -11818,6 +11837,7 @@ Defeat brings depression. They say it is a sign of health when depression gives way to anger. My anger came quickly, but it didn't cure the depression. This anger was of two sorts. +originalism It was first anger with the five Conservatives. It would have been one thing for them to have explained why the principle of Lopez didn't -- 2.51.0