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Free Culture

How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and ControlCreativity

Lawrence Lessig

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Contents

Free Culture1by Lawrence Lessig1

Attribution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

PREFACE3INTRODUCTION6“PIRACY”15

Chapter One: Creators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Chapter Two: “Mere Copyists”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Chapter Three: Catalogs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35Chapter Four: “Pirates”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38Film. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38Recorded Music. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Radio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41Cable TV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42Chapter Five: “Piracy”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Piracy I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Piracy II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

“PROPERTY”56

Chapter Six: Founders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Chapter Seven: Recorders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Chapter Eight: Transformers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68Chapter Nine: Collectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73Chapter Ten: “Property”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78Why Hollywood Is Right. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83Beginnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88Law: Duration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90Law: Scope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92Law and Architecture: Reach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95Architecture and Law: Force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Market: Concentration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114Together. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Chapter Eleven: Chimera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125Chapter Twelve: Harms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129Constraining Creators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129Constraining Innovators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132Corrupting Citizens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

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