FREE CULTURE
HOW BIG MEDIA USES TECHNOLOGY AND THE LAW TO LOCK DOWN CULTURE AND CONTROL CREATIVITY
LAWRENCE LESSIG

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