Lexeul Notes#05

1. The document discusses the history of copyright and how it has increasingly restricted creativity and innovation over time as the past tries to control the future. 2. It notes that in 1774, the free culture was born with Donaldson v Beckett, but that copyright terms and control of derivatives have steadily increased since then. 3. Now in 2002, creativity is highly regulated by copyright law and technology that controls uses, and every action on the internet is potentially a copy, restricting an open culture that previously enabled innovation.