Free Culture - Lawrence Lessig (hot novels to read .txt) 📗

321n San Francisco Opera, 95, 97 Sarnoff, David, 5

Saturday Night Live, 106 Scalia, Antonin, 234, 238, 240, 247 Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne), 214 Schlafly, Phyllis, 231

schools, gun possession near, 219 Schwartz, John, 79

scientific journals, 280, 281-82 Scottish publishers, 86, 90-91, 93 Screen Actors Guild, 60

search engines, 48-50

"Seasons, The" (Thomson), 91

Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI),

155-56 semiotic democracy, 301-2 Senate, U.S., 120, 131

FCC media ownership rules reversed by,

269 see also Congress, U.S. Sentelle, David, 228-29, 231, 235, 243 September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks of, 40,

41, 111-12

Seuss, Dr., 233, 234

Shakespeare, William, 29, 85, 87, 88, 93, 316n sheet music, 17, 56

Silent Spring (Carson), 129

Simpsons, The, 95-98

single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs),

262-63

Sites, Kevin, 310n-11n 60 Minutes, 105, 111

Slade, Michael, 101 slavery, 120

Smith, David, 309n

Snowe, Olympia, xv software, open-source, see free software/ open-source software

Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension

Act (CTEA) (1998), 134, 135, 215, 218, 221, 223

Supreme Court challenge of, 228, 230,

231, 234-48, 252, 304 Sony:

Aibo robotic dog produced by, 153-55,

156, 157

Betamax technology developed by, 75-76 Sony Music Entertainment, 162

Sony Pictures Entertainment, 116

Sousa, John Philip, 56

Souter, David, 234, 235, 242, 244

South Africa, Republic of, pharmaceutical imports by, 258-59

speech, freedom of, 318n

constitutional guarantee of, 128

film-rating system vs., 117

useful criticism fostered by, 156 speeding, constraints on, 123-24, 207 spider, 108

Spielberg, Steven, 107

Stallman, Richard, xv-xvi, 279-80, 330n

Stanford University, 282

Star Wars, 98

Starwave, 100-101

Statute of Anne (1710), 86, 87, 89, 90, 91,

92, 133

Statute of Monopolies (1656), 88 statutory damages, 51

statutory licenses, 57-58, 64, 74, 194,

295-96, 300

Steamboat Bill, Jr., 22-23, 26, 34 Steamboat Willie, 21-23, 309n steel industry, 127

Stevens, John Paul, 234, 235, 242 Stevens, Ted, xv

Stewart, Gordon, 229, 230 Story, Joseph, 252

Sullivan, Kathleen, 232-33 Superman comics, 27

Supreme Court, U.S.:

access to opinions of, 281

on airspace vs. land rights, 2-3, 307n annual docket of, 229

on balance of interests in copyright law,

77, 78 on cable television, 61 congressional actions restrained by,

218-19, 220, 234 on copyright term extensions, 218, 228-48 factions of, 234-35

House of Lords vs., 92

on Internet pornography restrictions, 325n on television advertising bans, 168

on VCR technology, 76-77 Sutherland, Donald, 102

Takings Clause, 119

Talbot, William, 31

Tatel, David, 229

Tauzin, Billy, 324n tax system, 201

Taylor, Robert, 91 technology: archival opportunity afforded through,

113-14, 115 of circumvention, 156, 157-60 of copying, 171

copyright enforcement controlled by, 147,

148-61, 181, 186, 203-4, 320n, 324n

copyright intent altered by, 141-44 cut-and-paste culture enabled by, 105-6,

203 of digital capturing and sharing, 184-85 established industries threatened by changes in, 69-70, 126-28 innovative improvements in, 67, 313n legal murkiness on, 192

television, 6

advertising on, 36, 127, 167-68, 321n cable vs. broadcast, 59-61, 74-75, 302 controversy avoided by, 168, 321n independent production for, 164-66 industry trade association of, 116 ownership consolidation in, 162, 163 VCR taping of, 75-76, 158-60 Television Archive, 110, 111-12

Thomas, Clarence, 234

Thomson, James, 91, 92

Thurmond, Strom, 43

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 42

Tonson, Jacob, 85, 86, 316n

tort reform, 323n

Torvalds, Linus, 280

Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement, 313n Turner, Ted, 269

Twentieth Century Fox, 116

twins, as chimera, 178-79

United Kingdom: copyright requirements in, 327n history of copyright law in, 85-94 public creative archive in, 270 United States Trade Representative

(USTR), 258-59

United States v. Lopez, 219, 220, 234,

235-36, 239, 241, 242, 243

United States v. Morrison, 219, 234 Universal Music Group, 162, 191 Universal Pictures, 75-76, 116 university computer networks, p2p sharing on, 48-51, 180, 206-7, 270, 322n used record sales, 72, 314n

Vaidhyanathan, Siva, 316n, 322n Valenti, Jack, 205, 238 background of, 116, 117 on creative property rights, 10, 117-20,

140

Eldred Act opposed by, 253 perpetual copyright term proposed by,

326n on VCR technology, 76 Vanderbilt University, 110 VCRs, 75-76, 77, 158-60, 194, 297,

320n venture capitalists, 189, 191 Verizon Internet Services, 205, 322n

veterans' pensions, 293

Video Pipeline, 145-46, 187 Vivendi Universal, 182, 190

von Lohmann, Fred, 205, 207

Wagner, Richard, 95, 97

Warner Brothers, 101, 116, 147-48, 152 Warner Music Group, 162

Way Back Machine, 108, 109, 110 Wayner, Peter, 284

Web-logs (blogs), 41, 42-45, 310n-11n Web sites, domain name registration of,

289

Webster, Noah, 8

Wellcome Trust, 262

Wells, H. G., 177-78

White House press releases, 317n willful infringement, 146 Windows, 65

Winer, Dave, 44-45

Winick, Judd, 26-27

WJOA, 321n

WorldCom, 185

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), 262-64, 265-67, 328 n

World Summit on the Information Society

(WSIS), 263-64, 266

World Trade Center, 40 World Wide Web, 262 WRC, 321n

Wright brothers, 1, 3, 11-12

Yanofsky, Dave, 36

Zimmerman, Edwin, 60-61

Zittrain, Jonathan, 324n

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

LAWRENCE LESSIG (http://www.lessig.org), professor of law and a John A. Wilson Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School, is founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and is chairman of the Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org). The author of The Future of Ideas (Random House, 2001) and Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Basic Books, 1999), Lessig is a member of the boards of the Public Library of Science, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Public Knowledge. He was the winner of the Free Software Foundation's Award for the Advancement of Free Software, twice listed in BusinessWeek's "e.biz 25," and named one of Scientific American's "50 visionaries." A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Cambridge University, and Yale Law School, Lessig clerked for Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.