The document discusses the history of copyright law and how it has evolved over time from initially limiting copyright terms to just 14 years, to increasingly longer terms up to life plus 70 years now. It argues that society has become less free as the past seeks to exert more control over creativity that builds upon it through increasingly restrictive copyright laws and technologies. The solution proposed is to embrace free and open source ideas to promote transparent and collaborative creativity that can help ensure future innovation is not limited by the past.

2. <free culture> OSCON July 24, 2002

3. <refrain>

4. 1. Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.

5. 2. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it.

6. 3. Free societies enable the future by limiting the past.

7. 4. Ours is less and less a free society.

8. </refrain>

9. (1)

10. 1774 Donaldson v. Beckett free culture born

11. 1774 Donaldson v. Beckett free culture born

12. 1774 Donaldson v. Beckett free culture born

13. 1774 Donaldson v. Beckett free culture born

14. 1710 Statute of Anne limited term 14 years

15. 1710 Statute of Anne limited term 14 years

16. 1710 Statute of Anne limited term 14 years

17. 1710 Statute of Anne limited term 14 years

18. 1740s Scottish publishers reprint classics

19. 1740s Scottish publishers reprint classics

20. 1740s Scottish publishers reprint classics

21. London publishers: “copyright is forever”

22. London publishers: “copyright is forever”

23. [Sonny Bono: “forever minus a day”]

24. London publishers: “copyright is forever”

25. publishers

26. “ old patentees and monopolizers in the trade of bookselling, men who do not labour in an honest profession to learning is indetted.”

27. “ common law copyright”

28. 1769 Millar v. Taylor publishers prevail

29. 1769 Millar v. Taylor publishers prevail

30. 1769 Millar v. Taylor publishers prevail

31. 1774 Millar reversed

32. 1774 Millar reversed

33. Shakespeare free

34. freed culture

35. <refrain>

36. 1. Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.

37. 2. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it.

38. 3. Free societies enable the future by limiting the past.

39. 4. Ours is less and less a free society.

40. </refrain>

41. (2)

42. 1790 unregulated creativity “printing” free derivatives 14 years

43. 1790 unregulated creativity “printing” free derivatives 14 years

44. 1790 unregulated creativity “printing” free derivatives 14 years

45. 1790 unregulated creativity “printing” free derivatives 14 years

46. 1790 unregulated creativity “printing” free derivatives 14 years

47. 1790 free code transparent technology

48. 1790 free code transparent technology

49. 1790 free code transparent technology

50. control

51. control

52. not just then

53. 1928 Walt Disney Steamboat Willie Steamboat Bill., Jr.

55. 1928 Walt Disney Steamboat Willie Steamboat Bill., Jr.

57. 1928 Walt Disney Steamboat Willie Steamboat Bill., Jr.

59. 1928 Walt Disney Steamboat Willie Steamboat Bill, Jr.

60. “ always parroting the feature length mainstream films”

61. Pinocchio (1940)

62. Pinocchio (1940) Cinderella (1950)

63. Pinocchio (1940) Cinderella (1950) Alice in Wonderland (1951)

64. Pinocchio (1940) Cinderella (1950) Alice in Wonderland (1951) 20,000 Leagues (1954)

65. Pinocchio (1940) Cinderella (1950) Alice in Wonderland (1951) 20,000 Leagues (1954) Jonny Appleseed (1955)

66. Pinocchio (1940) Cinderella (1950) Alice in Wonderland (1951) 20,000 Leagues (1954) Jonny Appleseed (1955) Sleepy Hollow (1958) Sleeping Beauty (1959) Paul Bunyon (1958)

67. Pinocchio (1940) Cinderella (1950) Alice in Wonderland (1951) 20,000 Leagues (1954) Jonny Appleseed (1955) Sleepy Hollow (1958) Sleeping Beauty (1959) Paul Bunyon (1958) Jungle Book (1967) Kidnapped (1960)

68. Pinocchio (1940) Cinderella (1950) Alice in Wonderland (1951) 20,000 Leagues (1954) Jonny Appleseed (1955) Sleepy Hollow (1958) Sleeping Beauty (1959) Paul Bunyon (1958) Jungle Book (1967) Kidnapped (1960) The Little Mermaid (1989)

69. Pinocchio (1940) Cinderella (1950) Alice in Wonderland (1951) 20,000 Leagues (1954) Jonny Appleseed (1955) Sleepy Hollow (1958) Sleeping Beauty (1959) Paul Bunyon (1958) Jungle Book (1967) Kidnapped (1960) The Little Mermaid (1989) Beauty and the Beast (1991) Hunchback (1996)

70. Pinocchio (1940) Cinderella (1950) Alice in Wonderland (1951) 20,000 Leagues (1954) Jonny Appleseed (1955) Sleepy Hollow (1958) Sleeping Beauty (1959) Paul Bunyon (1958) Jungle Book (1967) Kidnapped (1960) The Little Mermaid (1989) Beauty and the Beast (1991) Hunchback (1996) Mulan (1998)

74. commons

75. lawyer

76. lawyer

77. “ limited Times”

78. 1790 “fourteen years” maybe x2

79. to 42 (1831)

80. 56 (1909)

81. 59 (1962)

82. 61 (1965)

83. 63 (1967)

84. 64 (1968)

85. 65 (1969)

86. 66 (1970)

87. 67 (1971)

88. 68 (1972)

89. 70 (1974)

90. 75 (1976)

91. 95 (1998)

92. Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act

93. aka

94. Mickey Mouse Protection Act

95. No one can do to Disney, Inc. what Walt Disney did to the Brothers Grimm

97. <refrain>

98. 1. Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.

99. 2. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it.

100. 3. Free societies enable the future by limiting the past.

101. 4. Ours is less and less a free society.

102. </refrain>

103. (3)

104. different now

105. 2002 regulated creativity

106. 2002 regulated creativity

107. law:

108. ©

109. ©

110. ©

111. ©

112. ©

113. “ publishing” to “copying”

114. “ copies” to “derivative works”

115. “ 14 years” to “life+70”

116. technology:

117. opaque creativity

118. controlling uses

126. law + technology:

127. law regulates “copies”

128. uses

129. unregulated

130. unregulated read

131. unregulated read give

132. unregulated read sell give

133. unregulated read sell give sleep

134. unregulated ©

135. unregulated © publish

136. unregulated ©

137. unregulated © fair use

138. unregulated © quote

139. uses

144. enter the net

145. every acts a copy

146. every act’s a copy

147. every act’s a copy

148. unregulated uses

149. regulated

150. ©

152. <del> “fair use”

155. <http://aibopet.com> “ teach your Aibo jazz”

156. “ [Y]our site contains information providing the means to circumvent AIBO-ware's copy protection protocol constituting a violation of the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act .”

161. controlled creativity

162. never more controlled

163. term scope concentration

164. term scope concentration

165. term scope concentration

166. never fewer more

167. never fewer more

168. never fewer more

169. 1773

170. control

171. <refrain>

172. 1. Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.

173. 2. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it.

174. 3. Free societies enable the future by limiting the past.

175. 4. Ours is less and less a free society.

176. </refrain>

177. (4)

178. you

179. gnu

180. transparent creativity

181. free sharing

182. common base

183. create like it’s 1790

184. proprietary v. free

185. proprietary v. free

186. for now

187. <refrain>

188. 1. Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.

189. 2. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it.

190. 3. Free societies enable the future by limiting the past.

191. 4. Ours is less and less a free society.

192. </refrain>

193. (5)

194. free code threatens

195. threats to free code

196. item: sw patents

197. Mr. Gates on sw patents:

198. If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete stand-still today.

199. The solution . . . is patenting as much as we can. . . . A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high: Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors.

200. The solution . . . is patenting as much as we can. . . . A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high: Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors.

201. Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors.

202. 4 years

203. tiny changes

204. tim changes

205. q. todd changes

206. apologists

207. what have you done?

208. “ excluding future competitors”

209. defensive

210. offensive

211. what have you done?

212. item: copyright wars

213. homeric tragedy

215. $25,000

216. insane rules whole world

217. insane rules for the whole world

218. broadcast flag

219. mandated fritz chips

220. “ police state in every computer”

221. digital vigilantes

222. “ a terrorist war”

223. for what?

224. “ to stop the harm”

225. the harm: 5x -5%

226. the harm: 5x -5%

227. the harm: 5x -5%

228. what have you done?

229. <refrain>

230. 1. Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.

231. 2. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it.

232. 3. Free societies enable the future by limiting the past.

233. 4. Ours is less and less a free society.

234. </refrain>

235. (6)

236. JC Watts

237. “ If you’re explaining, you’re losing.” JC Watts

238. 6 years

239. what have you done?

240. Boucher Cannon Hank Perritt

241. eff.org

242. do something