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Acknowledgments Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I. ART & CULTURE: USE ONLY AS DIRECTED . . . . . . . 1. The Crusades to Lock Up Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ASCAP Stops the Girl Scouts from Singing Around the Campfire . . . . . . . . . . . . The Blurry Line Between Originality and Copying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . How Illegal Rap Sampling Revived the Music Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Sampling Sequel: Mash-ups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Copyright Colonizes the Subconscious Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Copyrighting "Genetic Tunes" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. Creativity and Captive Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Painting Mustaches on the Mona Lisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Illegal Art to Express Illicit Ideas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Untold Legal Story Behind Andy Warhol's Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Dubious Calder Monopoly on Mobiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Old Man Potter Locks Up It's a Wonderful Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. Appropriating the People's Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vaudeville Comedy: Appropriation is the Seed of Originality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shakespeare the Imitator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Who Owns Folk Quilts and Needlepoint Patterns? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Squabbling Over the Ownership of Gettysburg Ghost Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Disney Privatizes the Classics and Folk Tales. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fan Fiction: You Are Not Allowed to Imagine Batman and Robin as Gay . . . . Who Owns Video-Game Characters? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . II. TRADEMARKING PUBLIC LIFE 4. Trademark Owners Whine, "No Making Fun of Me!" . . . . . . . . . . The Legal Lockdown of Barbie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Straight Eye for Queer Trademark Intimidation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bully-Boy Fruit of the Loom Doesn't Think Underwear is Funny. . . . . . . . . . . . Superspy Shakedown: James Bond Roughs Up Austin Powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Grave Threat of Goofy T-Shirts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Another Dangerous Art Form: Bawdy Spoofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5. The Corporate Privatization of Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Who Owns Casablanca? Groucho Takes on the Studio Lawyers . . . . . . . . . . . . McDonald's "Ownership" of 131 Words and Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . You Must be Socially Acceptable to Use the Word "Olympics" . . . . . . . . . . . . Only Fox News Can Claim to be Fair and Balanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Who Came First - Ralph Lauren or the Equestrians? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patrolling the Boundaries of Mental Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Value of Godzilla? Priceless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Internet and the Rise of Super-Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Forbidden Words: This Corporation Sucks! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6. Property Rights in Public Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Evoking Celebrity Personalities is Prohibited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Can the Girl from Ipanema Call Herself The Girl From Ipanema? . . . . . . . . . . . Rosa Parks Battles Rappers for Cultural Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Making a Statement with Larry, Curly and Moe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . III. THE COPYRIGHT WARS AGAINST AN OPEN SOCIETY . . . . 7. The Theft of the Public Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Incentives to Dead Authors: The Copyright Term Extension Act . . . . . . . . . . Stealing Classical Music from the Public Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Who Owns the Dewey Decimal Classification System? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . West Publishing's Claim to Own Page Numbers - and the Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . Selling Monopoly Access to the Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Private Ownership of Sports Scores, Game Photos and Bestseller Lists . . . . . . How Spurious Copyrights Steal the Public Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Next Form of Private Property - Facts? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8. Stifling Public Dialogue Through Copyright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gerald Ford Privatizes the News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Extra, Extra! Newspapers Snuff Out Free Expression! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . International Olympics Committee Legally Locks Up the News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I Have a Dream....that All Public Life Will Be Copyrighted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Uppity Alice Randall and the Cultural Icon Protection Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9. The DMCA's Attacks on Free Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Genres of Forbidden Research and Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . You May Not Teach Your Robot Dog New Tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . These Words May Not Be Read Aloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Ingenious Use of Copyright Law to Squelch Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Those Notorious Weapons of Piracy - the Shift-Key and the Magic Marker! . . . . IV. ABSURD NEW FRONTIERS OF CONTROL . . . . . . . . . 10. The Quest for Perfect Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TV Executive: You Are Required to Watch the Ads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senator Hatch: Destroy the Computers of Infringers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Great Cultural Lockdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Morality Lectures of Industry Virtuecrats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11. Intellectual Property Goes Over the Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . As Difficult as A(r), B(r), C(r) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Legal Monopoly Over Silence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Owning the Smell of Freshly Cut Grass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No Photos, Please, in a Starbucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Send in the Yoga Police! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patenting Side-to-Side Swinging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12. Just Kidding or Dead-Serious? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Who Owns the "Frowny" Emoticon :( ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Freedom of Expression(tm) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dialing for Dollars: Licensing the Music of Phone Tones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tanzania Loses Name to Tanning Salon Company, and Other Spoofs . . . . . . . . Conclusion: Reclaiming the Cultural Commons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Intellectual property -- United States.
Popular culture -- United States.