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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...nformation, visit www.caravanbooks.org. Copyright © 2008 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work avail... ...grees with my nomenclature here—and with much else besides. Activists, civil rights lawyers, bloggers, and librarians have actually done much of the h... ... for PLoS Biology with Arti Rai, “Synthetic Biology: Caught between Property Rights, the Public Domain, and the Commons.” 2 For several years now I ha... ...nsiders legislative proposals that would allow the ownership of facts. 5 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act gives content providers a whole array of... ...ium Copyright Act gives content providers a whole array of legally protected digital fences to en- close their work. 6 In some cases it effectively re... ... the idea that there might be constitutional challenges to the regulation of digital speech by copyright law may wallow in those arguments to their he... ...ot restrict itself solely to proprietary formats protected by digital rights management. It also allows uncontrolled MP3 files despite the fact that th... ...sier to understand—at least for those of you for whom talk of digital rights management, anticircumvention provisions, and network effects is not seco... ...y be listened to by a particular person in a particular room. Digital rights management technology makes it a lot easier to do these things. Suddenly ...

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