free culture by lawerence lessig 1.creativity and innovation always builds on the past
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free culture
ByLawerence Lessig
1. Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.
2. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it.
3. Free societies enable the future by limiting the past.
4. Ours is less and less a free society.
1710Statute of Anne
limited term14 years
1710Statute of Anne
limited term14 years
1710Statute of Anne
limited term14 years
1710Statute of Anne
limited term14 years
1710Statute of Anne
limited term14 years
Renewable x1 for 7 years
1710Statute of Anne
limited term14 years
Renewable x1 for 7 years21 years max
1731(1710 +
21)
1740sScottish publishers
reprint classics
1740sScottish publishers
reprint classics
1740sScottish publishers
reprint classics
London publishers:“copyright is forever”
London publishers:“copyright is forever”
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Common Law copyright
1774Donaldson v. Beckett
free cultureborn
1774Donaldson v. Beckett
free cultureborn
1774Donaldson v. Beckett
free cultureborn
1774Donaldson v. Beckett
free cultureborn
Shakespeare free
freed culture
US Constitution
Progress Clause
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the
exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries
1790
First US Copyright law passed
1790unregulated creativity
“printing”free derivatives
14 years
1790unregulated creativity
“printing”free derivatives
14 years
1790unregulated creativity
“printing”free derivatives
14 years
1790unregulated creativity
“printing”free derivatives
14 years
1790free code
transparent technology
1790 “fourteen years”
maybe x2
to 42(1831)
56(1909)
59(1962)
61(1965)
63(1967)
64(1968)
65(1969)
66(1970)
67(1971)
68(1972)
70(1974)
75(1976)
95(1998)
Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act
aka
Mickey Mouse Protection Act
US Constitution
Progress Clause
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the
exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries
Eldred vs Ashcroft
Eric Eldred
The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne
“noncommercial publishing industry”
Robert Frost
1998Frost Poems Public Domain
Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act
Frost Poems Public Domain2019
Eldred vs Ashcroft
Public DomainX
Fair Use?
What is Fair Use?
Legal limited use of copyrighted Material
1. the purpose and character of your use
2. the nature of the copyrighted work 3. the amount and substantiality of
the portion taken, and4. the effect of the use upon the
potential market.
?
1. the purpose and character of your use 2. the nature of the copyrighted work 3. the amount and substantiality of the portion
taken, and4. the effect of the use upon the potential
market.
lawyers
+
=No fair use
1. Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.
2. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it.
3. Free societies enable the future by limiting the past.
4. Ours is less and less a free society.
Eldred vs Ashcroft
Discussion
promote the progress of science and useful arts?
limited times?