From d62d828ab52932ecde63972f92e1c27fda91a5ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 14:19:47 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] More index entries, and correct the Alex Alben one. --- freeculture.xml | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/freeculture.xml b/freeculture.xml index 457e555..69a3132 100644 --- a/freeculture.xml +++ b/freeculture.xml @@ -12,9 +12,6 @@ ]> - - Free Culture @@ -498,6 +495,17 @@ book is written. INTRODUCTION + + air traffic, land ownership vs. + + + land ownership, air traffic and + + + property rights + air traffic vs. + +Wright brothers On December 17, 1903, on a windy North Carolina beach for just shy of one hundred seconds, the Wright brothers demonstrated that a @@ -593,6 +601,7 @@ as solid as rock in one age crumble in another. Causby, Thomas Lee Causby, Tinie +Wright brothers Or at least, this is how things happen when there's no one powerful on the other side of the change. The Causbys were just farmers. And @@ -611,8 +620,11 @@ end, the force of what seems obvious to everyone else—the p common sense—would prevail. Their private interest would not be allowed to defeat an obvious public gain. + + + -Edwin Howard Armstrong is one of America's forgotten inventor +Edwin Howard Armstrong is one of America's forgotten inventor geniuses. He came to the great American inventor scene just after the titans Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. But his work in the area of radio technology was perhaps the most important of any @@ -1013,6 +1025,7 @@ trespass. Causby, Thomas Lee Causby, Tinie +Wright brothers And thus, when geeks and technologists defend their Armstrong or Wright brothers technology, most of us are simply unsympathetic. @@ -5122,7 +5135,9 @@ not. CHAPTER EIGHT: Transformers Allen, Paul -Alben, Alex + + Alben, Alex + In 1993, Alex Alben was a lawyer working at Starwave, Inc. Starwave was an innovative company founded by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen to @@ -5130,7 +5145,6 @@ develop digital entertainment. Long before the Internet became popular, Starwave began investing in new technology for delivering entertainment in anticipation of the power of networks. -Alben, Alex Alben had a special interest in new technology. He was intrigued by the emerging market for CD-ROM technology—not to distribute @@ -5141,7 +5155,6 @@ chosen was Clint Eastwood. The idea was to showcase all of the work of Eastwood, with clips from his films and interviews with figures important to his career. -Alben, Alex At that time, Eastwood had made more than fifty films, as an actor and as a director. Alben began with a series of interviews with Eastwood, @@ -5156,7 +5169,6 @@ posters, scripts, and other material relating to the films Eastwood made. Most of his career was spent at Warner Brothers, and so it was relatively easy to get permission for that content. -Alben, Alex Then Alben and his team decided to include actual film clips. Our goal was that we were going to have a clip from every one of @@ -5165,12 +5177,10 @@ arose. No one had ever really done this before, Alben explained. one had ever tried to do this in the context of an artistic look at an actor's career. -Alben, Alex Alben brought the idea to Michael Slade, the CEO of Starwave. Slade asked, Well, what will it take? -Alben, Alex Alben replied, Well, we're going to have to clear rights from everyone who appears in these films, and the music and everything @@ -5186,6 +5196,7 @@ Burn creativity, as this chapter evinces. artists publicity rights on images of +Alben, Alex @@ -5222,7 +5233,6 @@ we put together a team, my assistant and some others, and we just started calling people. -Alben, Alex Some actors were glad to help—Donald Sutherland, for example, followed up himself to be sure that the rights had been cleared. @@ -5238,7 +5248,6 @@ career. It was one year later—and even then we weren't sure whether we were totally in the clear. -Alben, Alex Alben is proud of his work. The project was the first of its kind and the only time he knew of that a team had undertaken such a massive @@ -5261,7 +5270,6 @@ systematically and cleared the rights. And no doubt, the product itself was exceptionally good. Eastwood loved it, and it sold very well. -Alben, Alex Drucker, Peter But I pressed Alben about how weird it seems that it would have to @@ -5324,7 +5332,6 @@ to cost me, and a certain number of people are going to hold me up for money, then it becomes difficult to put one of these things together. -Alben, Alex Alben worked for a big company. His company was backed by some of the richest investors in the world. He therefore had authority and access @@ -5342,6 +5349,7 @@ change, they make no sense at all. Or at least, a well-trained, regulationminimizing Republican should look at the rights and ask, Does this still make sense? + I've seen the flash of recognition when people get this point, but only a few times. The first was at a conference of federal judges in California. @@ -5368,6 +5376,7 @@ began his talk with a question: Do you know how many federal laws were just violated in this room? Boies, David +Alben, Alex For of course, the two brilliantly talented creators who made this film hadn't done what Alben did. They hadn't spent a year clearing the @@ -9750,8 +9759,10 @@ Why? What justifies this difference? Was there any study of the economic consequences from Internet radio that would justify these differences? Was the motive to protect artists against piracy? -Alben, Alex Real Networks + + Alben, Alex + In a rare bit of candor, one RIAA expert admitted what seemed obvious to everyone at the time. As Alex Alben, vice president for Public @@ -9781,6 +9792,7 @@ high rate and it's a stable, predictable market. (Emphasis added.) + Translation: The aim is to use the law to eliminate competition, so that this platform of potentially immense competition, which would @@ -13915,6 +13927,11 @@ a more generous copyright law than Richard Nixon presided over?
3. Free Use Vs. Fair Use +land ownership, air traffic and + + property rights + air traffic vs. + As I observed at the beginning of this book, property law originally granted property owners the right to control their property from the @@ -13988,6 +14005,7 @@ technologies enable; now imagine pouring molasses into the machines. That's what this general requirement of permission does to the creative process. Smothers it. +Alben, Alex This was the point that Alben made when describing the making of the Clint Eastwood CD. While it makes sense to require negotiation for -- 2.51.0