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INDEX
A note about the index: The pages referenced in this index refer to the page numbers in the print edition. Clicking on a page number will take you to the ebook location that corresponds to the beginning of that page in the print edition. For a comprehensive list of locations of any word or phrase, use your reading system’s search function.
academic research:
and copyright, 11, 88–89
corporate funding of, 209–12, 265
and gift economy vs. market economy, 89
government funding of, 174, 208–9, 211
and open access, 176–77
peer review of, 174–75
publishers of, 175–77, 178
results harvested and sold, 212
serials pricing crisis, 175
Swartz’s robotic harvesting of, 197–202
and technology transfer offices, 212
Adams, Henry, 61
Adams, John, 32
Adida, Ben, 130
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), 82, 100–101
Æolian Company, 75–76
AI (artificial intelligence), 102–4, 112, 125
Aikin, Jane, 71
Alcott, Louisa May, 55, 60, 117–18
Alden, John Berry, 58
Alexa Internet, 135
Amazon, 241
American Bar Association, 86
American colonies:
cultural independence for, 23
freedom of expression in, 20
nationalism in, 20
national language for, 22–23
printed word valued in, 27
printing trade in, 20
American Copyright League, 60, 64
American Dictionary of the English Language (Webster), 34, 35–37
American Graphophone Company, 74–75
American Library Association:
and e-books, 107
Library/USA, 80–81, 82
Library War Service, 77
American Minerva, The (newspaper), 32
American News Company, 55
American Publishers’ Copyright League, 60–61, 62
American Revolution, 20, 22, 25
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), 84
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 195–96
Anonymous (hacking collective), 263
Apple:
iTunes, 153, 178
Macintosh, 106, 147
Swartz’s essay on, 267–68
Appleton, William, 63
Arab Spring, 237
archive.org, 193
ARPANET, 101–2
ArsDigita Prize, 124
art, copyright protections of, 73
Articles of Confederation, 26
arXiv, 176–77
ASCII, 109
Ashcroft, John, 122–23, 139
AT&T, 264
Atlantic Monthly, 65, 82, 228
authors, see creators
Authors League of America, 84
Avaaz, 203, 241, 248, 249
Baffler (magazine), 6, 229
Banff Forum, 166
Bank of America, 212–13
Barday, Shireen, 173
Barlow, Joel, 26, 33
Bayh-Dole Act (1980), 211–12
Beadle Co., 52
Beged-Dov, Gabe, 126
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 121
Berlin Declaration, 177
Berners-Lee, Tim, 3, 9, 107–8, 127, 128, 143, 237, 238
Bethedsa Statement, 177
Bill of Rights, 105
Birrell, Augustine, 18–19
BitTorrent, 131
Blake, William, 99
Blue Book, 181–82
“blue box,” 263–64
Boing Boing (blog), 131, 139
Bono, Mary, 118, 138
Book People, 120–21, 138, 140
books:
archiving of, 135–36
e-books, 99, 107, 117
sharing our cultural legacy, 164
Boston Public Library, 67, 139
Bowen, William G., 195–96
Bracha, Oren, 30
Bradbury, Ray, 80
Fahrenheit 451, 120–21
Brand, Stewart, The Media Lab, 12, 269
Brown, Ralph S. Jr., 85–86
Buchanan, James, 47
Buchheit, Paul, 165
Budapest Declaration, 177
Buffett, Warren, 7
Burke, Colin, 91
Bush, Vannevar, 82–83, 108, 208, 209, 211
Camaldolese order, 169
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Swartz’s residence in, 202–5, 229
Cameron, S. T., 74–75
Capra, Frank, 183
Carnegie, Andrew, 68
Carnegie Mellon University, 115
Caro, Robert, The Power Broker, 203
Carstensen, Simon, 149, 158
Carter, Jimmy, 211–12
Cassedy, Tim, 24
Caves of Massaccio, 169
censorship:
copyright laws as, see copyright laws
by printers’ guild, 18–19
Century Magazine, 60, 62
CERN, 107–8
Challenge to Greatness, 79–81
Change.org, 248, 249
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 61
Charvat, William, 25
Cheng, Tiffiniy, 152, 240, 241
Chicago Force, 124
Chomsky, Noam, Understanding Power, 171–72, 181, 219
CIA, 82
City Club, Manhattan, 72
civil disobedience, 180
Clarke, Arthur C., 152
Clay, Henry, 47, 49
Clemens, Samuel (Twain), 60, 62, 73
Cleveland, Grover, 61
Clinton, Bill, 119, 241
Clinton Global Initiative, 241
Cobbett, William, 33
Cohen, Bram, 131
Cold War, 78
end of, 211
Cole, John Y., 69
Coll, Gary R., 32
collusion, 54–55
Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA, 2010), 225–27, 230–31, 237
Communications Week, 182
communication technology, 12, 13, 18, 87–88
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), 218–19, 235, 237, 253
computers, 91
Apple Macintosh, 106, 147
code sharing, 104
and e-books, 99, 107
free software, 103, 104, 107, 190, 230, 266
and hackers, 102–3, 262–63
human-computer symbiosis, 101
operating systems, 106
personal, 100, 106, 147
proprietary software, 103–4
protected, defined, 218, 235, 253
robotic harvesting via, 198–99
as thinking machines, 102
UNIVAC, 81, 90
unsupervised misfits’ use of, 98, 100, 103–5
use of term, 96
value added by, 97
Xerox Sigma V mainframe, 95–97, 113
Computers and the Humanities, 96
Condé Nast, 2, 156–61, 164, 170
Congress, US:
1790 Copyright Law, 30–31
1831 Copyright Act, 38
1909 Copyright Act, 76–77
1995 Copyright Term Extension Act, 110–13, 136
1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA), 118–20, 122, 172
and copyright law revisions, 37, 68, 70, 72, 73–77, 269
and corporate interests, 132
and international copyright, 59–65
and NET Act, 119, 132, 237
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