...nd the boundaries of one institution. A large group of intellectual property scholars have influenced my ideas. Most impor- tantly, Larry Lessig and Yo... ...e each given far more than they received from me in the “sharing economy” of scholarship. If the ideas I de- scribe here have a future, it is because ... ...he Digital Millennium Copyright Act gives content providers a whole array of legally protected digital fences to en- close their work. 6 In some cases... ...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...uce you to intellectual property, to ex- plain why it matters, why it is the legal form of the information age. The second goal is to persuade you tha... ... very moment in history when we need them most. Academic articles and clever legal briefs cannot solve this problem alone. Instead, I argue that preci... ...rite about complicated issues, some of which have been neglected by academic scholarship, while others have been catalogued in detail. I want to advan... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr...

...sic business ideas and pairs of musical notes are now owned, why jazz might be illegal if it were invented today, why most of 20th century culture is legally unavailable to us, and why today's policies would probably have smothered the World Wide Web at its inception. Appropriately given its theme, the book will be sold commercially but also made available online for free ...

...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...1 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash site, ... ...r Bin Ladin, Zawahiri, nor the three others who signed this statement were scholars of Islamic law. Claiming that America had declared war against God... ...6 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, Qutb mixed Islamic scholarship with a very superficial acquaintance with W estern history and ... ...dividuals were just the first symptoms. 8 Third, the successful use of the legal system to address the first World Trade Center bombing had the side e... ...deposit. 3.2 ADAPTATION—AND NONADAPTATION—IN THE LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMUNITY Legal processes were the primary method for responding to these early mani-... ...nce within the United States from the CIA and from Army Intel- ligence.The legal basis for some of this assistance was dubious. Decades of encourageme... ...the establishment of a Research and Analysis Branch.There large numbers of scholars from U.S. universities pored over accounts from spies, com- munica...

...ent the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this repo...