free culture By Lawerence 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.
1710 Statute of Anne limited term 14 years
1710 Statute of Anne limited term 14 years Renewable x1 for 7 years
1710 Statute of Anne limited term 14 years Renewable x1 for 7 years 21 years max
1731 ( )
1740s Scottish publishers reprint classics
London publishers: “copyright is forever”
Com Common Law copyright
1774 Donaldson v. Beckett free culture born
Shakespeare free
Free Shakespeare
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
1790 unregulated creativity “printing” free derivatives 14 years
1790 free 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
1998 Frost Poems Public Domain Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act Frost Poems Public Domain 2019
X
Eldred vs Ashcroft
Public Domain X 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, and 4.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, and 4.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?