...ction of the Public Domain”; 1 Chapter 7 shares little textually but much in terms of inspiration with an article I co-wrote for PLoS Biology with Art... ...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... ...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... ...evidence that it was necessary to encourage innovation. We have extended the terms of living and even of dead authors over works that have already bee... ...e over intellectual property policy. Unfortunately, the problem of copyright terms is just one example, one instance of a larger pattern. As I will tr... ...eans of social organization that we used to relegate to the private world of informal sharing and collabo- ration. Denied a commons by bad intellectua... .... The inaugural edition of the journal Knowledge Ecology Studies presents an informal discussion of the origins of the idea at http://www .kestudies.o...

...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 ...