Free Culture

Version 2004-02-10

Lawrence Lessig

Copyright © 2004 by Lawrence Lessig. This version of Free Culture is licensed under a Creative Commons license. This license permits non-commercial use of this work, so long as attribution is given. For more information about the license, click the icon above, or visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/1.0/

Table of Contents

3. INTRODUCTION

4. "PIRACY"

4.1. CHAPTER ONE: Creators

4.2. CHAPTER TWO: "Mere Copyists"

4.3. CHAPTER THREE: Catalogs

4.4. CHAPTER FOUR: "Pirates"

4.4.1. Film
4.4.2. Recorded Music
4.4.3. Radio
4.4.4. Cable TV

4.5. CHAPTER FIVE: "Piracy"

4.5.1. Piracy I
4.5.2. Piracy II

5. "PROPERTY"

5.1. CHAPTER SIX: Founders

5.2. CHAPTER SEVEN: Recorders

5.3. CHAPTER EIGHT: Transformers

5.4. CHAPTER NINE: Collectors

5.5. CHAPTER TEN: "Property"

5.5.1. Why Hollywood Is Right
5.5.2. Beginnings
5.5.3. Law: Duration
5.5.4. Law: Scope
5.5.5. Law and Architecture: Reach
5.5.6. Architecture and Law: Force
5.5.7. Market: Concentration
5.5.8. Together

6.1. CHAPTER ELEVEN: Chimera

6.2. CHAPTER TWELVE: Harms

6.2.1. Constraining Creators
6.2.2. Constraining Innovators
6.2.3. Corrupting Citizens

7. BALANCES

7.1. CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Eldred
7.2. CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Eldred II

8. CONCLUSION

9. AFTERWORD

9.1. US, NOW

9.1.1. Rebuilding Freedoms Previously Presumed: Examples
9.1.2. Rebuilding Free Culture: One Idea

9.2. THEM, SOON

9.2.1. 1. More Formalities
9.2.2. 2. Shorter Terms
9.2.3. 3. Free Use Vs. Fair Use
9.2.4. 4. Liberate the Music--Again
9.2.5. 5. Fire Lots of Lawyers

11. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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