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The Brennan Center for Justice, founded in 1995, unites thinkersand advocates in pursuit of a vision of inclusive and effectivedemocracy. The Free Expression Policy Project founded in 2000,provides research and advocacy on free speech, copyright, and mediademocracy issues. FEPP joined the Brennan Center’s DemocracyProgram in 2004.Michael WaldmanExecutive DirectorDeborah GoldbergDirectorDemocracy ProgramMarjorie HeinsCoordinatorFree Expression Policy ProjectFEPP’s previouspolicy reports are allavailable online:www.fepproject.orgInternet Filters(2001, second edition forthcoming 2006)Media Literacy: An Alternative to Censorship (2002, 2003)“The Progress of Science and Useful Arts”: Why Copyright TodayThreatens Intellectual Freedom (2003)Free Expression in Arts Funding (2003)The Information Commons (2004)Legal research: Jesse Hofrichter, Aziz Huq, Adan CanizalesThanks to Sam Howard-Spink for helping lead the focus groups, and to Larry Siems, Michelle Coe,Eve Sinaiko, and Claire Montgomery for organizing them. Thanks to Wendy Seltzer and Diane Cabellfor assistance with the Chilling Effects analysis. Thanks to Carroll Seron and, Diane Zimmermanfor helpful advice. Finally, thanks to Pat Aufderheide, Barton Beebe, James Boyle, Bob Clarida,Wendy Gordon, Justin Hughes, Brian Newman, Sam Howard-Spink, Peter Jaszi, David Nimmer,Fred von Lohmann, Wendy Seltzer, and Eve Sinaiko for reviewing the manuscript and offeringvaluable suggestions.The Brennan Center is grateful to the Rockefeller Foundation, the Robert Sterling ClarkFoundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for theVisual Arts for support of the Free Expression Policy Project.© 2005. This report is covered by a Creative Commons “Attribution – No Derivs – NonCommercial” License(see http://creativecommons.org). You may copy it in its entirety as long as you credit the Brennan Center for Justice,Free Expression Policy Project. You may not edit or revise it, or copy portions, without permission (except, of course,for fair use). Please let us know if you reprint.Portions of this report were published in the Proceedings of the Conference on Free Culture & the Digital Library atEmory University, October 14, 2005.