Copyright: Sacred Text, Technology, and the DMCA
Sacred Text, Technology, and the DMCA
Published on 27. October 2003
562 pages
978-90-411-8191-6 (ISBN)
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This anthology brings together over a dozen articles published by David Nimmer over the past decade regarding copyright, together with updated commentary weaving together the various threads running through them. The unifying theme running through the work is the need to reconcile standards in order to protect that most ethereal creation of mankind: the written word. From that unique vantage point the discussion delves into the religious roots and sacred character of the act of creation. Religion and copyright are brought into resonance as issues from one field are deployed to illuminate those in the other. Given its culminating focus on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act this work of necessity drills deeply into current advances in technology, notably the dissemination of works over the Internet. The religious perspective shines an unexpected light onto those issues as well.
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- TABLE OF ABBREVIATIONS
- PART ONE THE CHALLENGE OF TECHNOLOGY
- CHAPTER ONE BRAINS AND OTHER PARAPHERNALIA OF THE DIGITAL AGE
- I. INTRODUCTION
- A. Geography, Identity, Scholarly Voice
- B. The Transporter Room
- C. The White Paper
- II. FOUR QUESTIONS
- A. Is it Revolutionary?
- 1. Browsing In General
- 2. Snow White and Peter Pan
- 3. Publish or Perish
- B. Is It Universal?
- 1. Implicit Licenses
- 2. Critique of MAI v. Peak
- 3. Red Baron Attack
- C. Is it Ineluctable?
- D. Is it Unprecedented?
- III. MATCHMAKER, MATCHMAKER
- A. Old and New
- B. A Borrower and a Lender Be
- C. Learning From the Blues
- D. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
- AFTERWORD
- PART TWO INTERNATIONAL ROOTS
- CHAPTER TWO NATION, DURATION, VIOLATION, HARMONIZATION: AN INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT PROPOSAL FOR THE UNITED STATES
- I. INTRODUCTION
- II. THE SETTING: OUR NATION
- A. Before Adherence to the Berne Convention
- B. As a Member of the Berne Union
- III. THE ISSUE: COPYRIGHT DURATION
- A. Provisions of United States Law
- B. Berne Convention Requirements
- IV. THE PROBLEM: TREATY VIOLATION
- A. Inconsistencies Between U.S. Law and the Berne Convention
- B. Inconsistencies Between United States Law and Congressional Goals
- V. THE SOLUTION: A PROPOSAL FOR HARMONIZATION
- VI. CONCLUSION
- AFTERWORD
- CHAPTER THREE CORCOVADO: RENEWAL'S SECOND COMING OR FALSE MESSIAH?
- I. INVOCATION
- II. CRITICAL MASS
- III. PROLEPTIC REQUIEM
- CHAPTER FOUR THE END OF COPYRIGHT
- a. CHIMES FROM TRADE WINDS
- ß. FOUR SEASONS
- ?. GATT AND ALL THAT
- d. STRANGE TRIPS
- e. PREVENTIVE DENTISTRY
- ?. DE JURE IS OUT
- ?. THE DSU OF THE WTO
- ?. PARSING THE AMENDMENTS
- A. Bootlegging Parsifal et al.
- B. The Flying Dutchman
- 1. Copyrights Undead
- 2. Walpurgisnacht
- 3. Götterdämmerung
- ?. LIFE IN THE FAST TRACK
- ?. CONSTITUTIONAL MODULATIONS
- A. Command Performance
- B. After the Fat Lady Has Already Sung
- C. We Shall Be Released
- ?. THE MASTER CLASS
- A. A Feisty Reappraisal
- B. Less Pretty Now
- C. Judicial Comeuppance
- D. His Master's Voice
- µ. FACING THE MUSIC
- ?. FANFARE FOR THE NU
- AFTERWORD
- PART THREE WIPO TREATY TRIPTYCH
- CHAPTER FIVE A TALE OF TWO TREATIES
- I. GENERAL FRAMEWORK
- A. The Stillborn Database Treaty
- B. The Two Treaties That Succeeded
- 1. The Challenges of Technology
- 2. Idyllic Solutions
- 3. Less Ambitious Reality
- C. Ratification and Incorporation
- II. WIPO COPYRIGHT TREATY
- A. What Is it and Where Does it Fit?
- B. Noncontroversial Provisions
- C. Controversial Provision 1 - Reproduction or Communication?
- D. Controversial Provision 2 - Indirect and Temporary Copies
- E. Potential Changes to U.S. Law
- III. WIPO PERFORMANCES AND PHONOGRAMS TREATY
- A. What Is It and Where Does It Fit?
- B. Who Qualifies as a "Performer"?
- C. The Perennial Issue of Moral Rights
- D. Unfixed Performances
- E. Points of Attachment
- AFTERWORD
- CHAPTER SIX TIME AND SPACE
- I. INTRODUCTION
- A. No Space
- B. No Laws?
- C. Time and Space I
- D. Towards the Old World
- E. Felling the Proscenium Arch
- II. CONVENING THE DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE
- A. Framework of the Berne Convention
- B. Committees of Experts
- C. Time and Space II
- III. THE CURRENT TIME: DOMINATED BY AN AMERICAN SPACE
- A. Snapshots of Copyright's Undergirding Philosophy
- B. Performers and Frenchmen
- IV. THE TRIUMPH OF MEATSPACE OVER CYBERSPACE
- A. The Power of Presence
- B. Bloc Voting and Lobbying
- C. Time and Space III
- V. THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
- A. Limited Sensibilities
- B. Sense of Common Enterprise
- VI. FUTURE PORTENTS
- A. The Strange
- B. The Stranger
- C. Time and Space IV
- D. Lessons
- VII. ENVOI
- CHAPTER SEVEN AUS DER NEUEN WELT
- AFTERWORD
- PART FOUR TRIUMVIRATE OF THE ANCIENTS
- CHAPTER EIGHT ADAMS AND BITS: OF JEWISH KINGS AND COPYRIGHTS
- CHAPTER NINE AN ODYSSEY THROUGH COPYRIGHT'S VICARIOUS DEFENSES
- I. UNDERLYING FACTS
- II. JURISDICTION AND VENUE
- III. DRAMATIS PERSONAE
- IV. VICARIOUS DEFENSES
- A. Personal Jurisdiction
- B. Private Performance
- C. Fair Use
- D. Diplomatic Immunity
- E. Eleventh Amendment Immunity
- F. Ineligible Nationability
- G. Forfeiture
- H. Substantial Similarity
- V. FAIR USE REDUX
- A. Netcom
- B. Fleecing the Gold
- C. Postulating a "Rule"
- VI. ADDITIONAL DEFENDANTS
- CONCLUSION
- I. STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS
- II. LACHES
- III. RES JUDICATA
- IV. OTHER DEFENSES
- CHAPTER TEN THE METAMORPHOSIS OF CONTRACT INTO EXPAND
- THE DEATH OF COPYRIGHT: A SHORT, CAUTIONARY TALE
- OVERVIEW
- I. THE INEVITABLE COEXISTENCE OF COPYRIGHT AND CONTRACT
- A. Transfer
- B. Works for Hire
- C. Sale, Rental, Lease
- D. Contract Formation
- E. Limits of Contract Rights
- II. CONTRACT NEED PLAY NO ROLE IN PROTECTING COPYRIGHT RIGHTS
- A. Enforceability of Unilateral License Terms
- B. The Conflation of Licensing with Distribution
- III. THE LIMITS ON CONTRACT VIA THE PREEMPTIVE FORCE OF COPYRIGHT
- A. General Preemption Notions
- B. A Case Study in the Contract/Copyright Clash: ProCD v. Zeidenberg
- C. Preemption Analysis of ProCD
- D. Framework of Preemption Principles: To the Limits of Monopoly
- IV. SOME LESSONS FOR THE U.C.C.
- A. The Neutrality Myth
- B. How the U.C.C. Might Help Maintain the "Delicate Balance"
- CONCLUSION
- AFTERWORD
- PART FIVE THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT
- CHAPTER ELEVEN PUZZLES
- PROLOGUE
- I. CAN PORNOGRAPHY, MINORS, THE INTERNET AND CONGRESS BE RECONCILED?
- A. The Structure of Section 1201
- B. Puzzles in Application
- II. HOW CAN ONE DISTRIBUTE SOMETHING THAT IS NO LONGER THERE?
- A. The Structure of Section 1202
- B. Removal of CMI
- C. Puzzles in Application
- III WHEN DOES THE FLAG WAVE RED
- A. The Structure of Section 512
- B. Hoisting Red Flags
- C. Puzzles in Application
- IV. HOW HIGH DOES THE WATER MARK?
- A. Interstices Between the Statutory Sections
- B. Watermarks
- C. Puzzles in Application
- EPILOGUE
- CHAPTER TWELVE A RIFF ON FAIR USE
- INTRODUCTION
- I. THE RIF
- II. THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT
- A. Background-Regulation of Devices and Services
- B. Section 1201's Anti-Circumvention Bans
- C. Statutory Exemptions in Section 1201
- D. Separate Application of Each Exemption to Each Ban
- III. FAIR USE
- A. General Solicitude for User Rights
- B. Practical Implementations in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Outside Section 1201
- C. Reacting to a "Pay-Per-Use" World
- AFTERWORD
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN KISSES SWEETER THAN WINE
- PROEM
- PART ONE-THE DETAILS
- I. DEVELOPMENT OF THE DMCA
- A. Background
- B. Progression of Various Features of the DMCA Through Congressional Committees
- C. Consensus
- II. THE PERIL OF INDIVIDUAL COMMENTS
- A. On the Mistaken Focus of Floor Statements
- B. On the Questionable Nature of the Manager's Report
- III. MISTLETOE MÉLANGE
- A. Stolen Kisses-Inapposite Commentary
- B. Kiss Me, Kate!-Refusal to Explicate
- C. Unrequited Kisses-Uncodified Commentary
- D. Kissing Disease-Out-of-Date Commentary
- E. Hershey's Kisses-Shilling for Corporations
- IV. HITTING THE MARK-POINTED COMMENTARY
- A. Section 1201
- B. Section 512
- C. Section 114
- PART TWO-A BROADER VIEW
- V. EVALUATION OF FOREGOING DETAILS
- VI. A FRANK RETROSPECTIVE ON HOW THE DMCA TOOK FORM
- VII. SWEEPING THE FLOOR
- VIII. HERMENEUTICS OF THE AUTHOR
- PART THREE-TWO HARD CASES
- IX. FAIR USE REDUX
- X. PLAYABILITY AGAIN
- EPILOG-THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN BACK FROM THE FUTURE: A PROLEPTIC REVIEW
- I. INTRODUCTION
- A. The Late Twentieth Century
- B. Passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
- C. Prolepsis
- II. FEATURES OF THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT
- A. Section 1201
- B. Section 512
- C. Section 1202
- D. Distinction from Past Legal Schemes
- III. APPLICATION TO FACTS OF THIS CASE
- A. Petitioner's Motion for Summary Judgment
- B. Respondent's Motion for Summary Judgment
- CODA "THOU SHALT NOT STEAL": A CANON OF CONSTRUCTION OF TITLE 17?
- Back Cover
