• Cover Image

The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...dangerous goal. You have never heard true condescension until you have heard academics pronounce the word “popularizer.” They say it as Isadora Duncan... ...1930s, or the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depressio... ...r. And it does this all with humor, without jargon, and in rhyming couplets. Academics should take note. Like most criticisms of the enclosure movemen... ...gree with him from quoting his autobiography in dis- cussing his life. If an African-American author wishes to tell the story of Gone With the Wind fr... ...s watching pictures of a flooded New Orleans, seeing pleading citizens—mainly African-American—and a Keystone Cops response by the Federal Emergency Ma... ...e television played certain images over and over again. People—again, mainly African-Americans—were portrayed breaking into stores, pleading from roof... ...ific verbal and musical references, and, for much of the century, cutting the African-American artists out of the profits in the process. There is anoth... ...ic and song lyrics are among the most aggressive of the lot. Year after year academics, critics, and historians pay fairly substantial fees (by our st... ... the state of research and development at which rights claims are made. Many academics who study both science’s organiza- tional structure and the int...

Read More