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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...’ Tale: An Allegory, 83 6 I Got a Mashup, 122 7 The Enclosure of Science and Technology: T wo Case Studies, 160 8 A Creative Commons, 179 9 An Eviden... ...ty and the public domain is important in every area of culture, science, and technology. As a result, it ranges widely in subject matter. Yet readers ... ...t and the decoding of the human genome? We could turn to the cutting edge of technology or to economics or information theory. But none of those would... ...ness plans relied upon showing movies in theaters and then licensing them to television stations. VCRs and Betamaxes fit nowhere in this plan; they wer... ...ith friends and families—tattered copies of Disney movies recorded from some cable show could be passed on to siblings whose kids have reached the app... ...nt that it was a “fair use” under U.S. copyright law for consumers to record television programs for time-shifting purposes. Since fair The Internet T... ...ol. It is another—relatively small—step toward an Internet that is more like cable TV or iTunes, a one-way flow of approved content. One might decide t... ...t lawyers in the room, you would end up designing something that looked like cable TV or Minitel. The Internet would never get off the ground. The Int... ...s clearly disapproving, others would point out that book- stores, movies and television channels are filled with material on how to commit mur der...an...

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