Lawerence Lessig "Free Culture: The nature and Future of Creativity"
"If piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission-if "if value, then right" is true-then the history of the content industry is a history of piracy. Every important sector of "big media" today-film, records, radio, and cable TV-was born of kind of piracy so defined. The consistent story is how last generation's pirates join this generation's country club-until now.
Film
The film industry of Hollywood was built by fleeing pirates. Creators and directors migrated from East Coast to California in the early twentieth century in part to escape controls that parents granted the inventor of filmmaking, Thomas Edison. These controls were exercised through a monopoly "trust," the Motion Pictures Parents Company, and were based on Thomas Edison's creative property-parents" (page 53).
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