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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...n, and the Commons.” 2 For several years now I have been a columnist for the Financial Times’s “New Economy Policy Forum.” Portions of Chapter 5 and C... ...llions of them, were putting content online—blogs, photo sites, vide- ologs, podcasts, course materials. It was all just up there. But what could you ... ..., the value of which increases as the network does. I write a column for the Financial Times, but I lack the fervor of the true enthusiast in the “Gre... ... story you wrote for your kids—and then typed up for them to tell to theirs. Financial incentives were not needed to encourage the creation of the wor... ...rs. Readers interested in exploring the issue further can find a series of my Financial Times articles on the subject at http://www.ft.com/ techforum. ...

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