CONTENTS



PREFACE   xiii
INTRODUCTION   1

“PIRACY”   15

CHAPTER ONE: Creators   21

CHAPTER TWO: “Mere Copyists”   31

CHAPTER THREE: Catalogs   48

CHAPTER FOUR: “Pirates”   53

Film   53

Recorded Music   55

Radio   58

Cable TV   59

CHAPTER FIVE: “Piracy”   62

Piracy I   63

Piracy II   66


“PROPERTY”   81

CHAPTER SIX: Founders   85

CHAPTER SEVEN: Recorders   95

CHAPTER EIGHT: Transformers   100

CHAPTER NINE: Collectors   108

CHAPTER TEN: “Property”   116

Why Hollywood Is Right   124

Beginnings   130

Law: Duration   133

Law: Scope   136

Law and Architecture: Reach   139

Architecture and Law: Force   147

Market: Concentration   161

Together   168


PUZZLES   175

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Chimera   177

CHAPTER TWELVE: Harms   183

Constraining Creators   184

Constraining Innovators   188

Corrupting Citizens   199


BALANCES   209

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Eldred   213

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Eldred II   248


CONCLUSION   257


AFTERWORD   273

Us, Now   276

Rebuilding Freedoms Previously Presumed:
Examples   277

Rebuilding Free Culture: One Idea   282

Them, Soon   287

1. More Formalities   287

Registration and Renewal   289

Marking   290

2. Shorter Terms   292

3. Free Use Vs. Fair Use   294

4. Liberate the Music—Again   296

5. Fire Lots of Lawyers   304

NOTES   307

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS   331

INDEX   333

ABOUT THE AUTHOR




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