http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllOfMp3
http://falkvinge.net/2011/02/07/copyright-as-a-fundamentalist-religion/
References for Pirates
1
I am grateful to Peter DiMauro for pointing me to this extraordinary history. See also Siva Vaidhyanathan, Copyrights and Copywrongs, 87–93, which details Edison’s “adventures” with copyright and patent.
2
J. A. Aberdeen, Hollywood Renegades: The Society of Independent Motion]Picture Producers (Cobblestone Entertainment, 2000) and expanded texts posted at “The Edison Movie Monopoly: The Motion Picture Patents Company vs. the Independent Outlaws,” available at link the link listed below. For a discussion of the economic motive behind both these limits and the limits imposed by Victor on phonographs, see Randal C. Picker, “From Edison to the Broadcast Flag: Mechanisms of Consent and Refusal and the Propertization of Copyright” (September 2002), University of Chicago Law School, James M. Olin Program in Law and Economics,Working Paper No. 159.
http://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/edison_trust.htm
3
Marc Wanamaker, “The First Studios,” The Silents Majority, archived at http://free- culture.cc/notes/12.pdf.
4
To Amend and Consolidate the Acts Respecting Copyright: Hearings on S. 6330 and H.R. 19853 Before the ( Joint) Committees on Patents, 59th Cong. 59, 1st sess. (1906) (statement of Senator Alfred B. Kittredge, of South Dakota, chairman), reprinted in Legislative History of the 1909 Copyright Act, E. Fulton Brylawski and Abe Goldman, eds. (South Hackensack, N.J.: Rothman Reprints, 1976).
5
To Amend and Consolidate the Acts Respecting Copyright, 223 (statement of Nathan Burkan, attorney for the Music Publishers Association).
6
. To Amend and Consolidate the Acts Respecting Copyright, 226 (statementof Nathan Burkan, attorney for the Music Publishers Association).
7
To Amend and Consolidate the Acts Respecting Copyright, 23 (statement of John Philip Sousa, composer).
8
To Amend and Consolidate the Acts Respecting Copyright, 283–84 (statement of Albert Walker, representative of the Auto-Music Perforating Company of New York).
9
To Amend and Consolidate the Acts Respecting Copyright, 376 (prepared memorandum of Philip Mauro, general patent counsel of the American Graphophone Company Association).
10
Copyright Law Revision: Hearings on S. 2499, S. 2900, H.R. 243, and H.R. 11794 Before the ( Joint) Committee on Patents, 60th Cong., 1st sess., 217 (1908) (statement of Senator Reed Smoot, chairman), reprinted in Legislative History of the 1909 Copyright Act, E. Fulton Brylawski and Abe Goldman, eds. (South Hackensack, N.J.: Rothman Reprints, 1976).
11
Copyright Law Revision: Report to Accompany H.R. 2512, House Committee on the Judiciary, 90th Cong., 1st sess., House Document no. 83, 66 (8 March 1967). I am grateful to Glenn Brown for drawing my attention to this report.
12
See 17 United States Code, sections 106 and 110. At the beginning, record companies printed “Not
