...g – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download free anthologies here: http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html ... ...us. A contract entails the demonstrated existence of a reasonably (and reasonable) free will. If the fulfillment of the obligations in a contract ... ...ividuals could be life-threatening – it is fair and safe to assume that no rational free will was involved. No reasonable person would sign or enter... ...certain person, while neglecting to mention that person's rights to life, to free speech, to the enjoyment the fruits of his lawful property and, ... ...sus, an ill-defined "we" is unfavorably contrasted with a fuzzy "they". While hate speech has been largely outlawed the world over, these often cou... ...ism. Indeed, the term anarchism has been trivialized and debauched. Animal rights activists, environmentalists, feminists, peasant revolutionaries... ... to life? The right to be free of pain? The right to food? Except the right to free speech – all other rights could be applied to animals. Law prof... ...he Problem of Dualism vs. Reductionism With the exception of radical animal rights activists, most philosophers and laymen consider people - human ... ...he Problem of Dualism vs. Reductionism With the exception of radical animal rights activists, most philosophers and laymen consider people - human ...

... Technology: T wo Case Studies, 160 8 A Creative Commons, 179 9 An Evidence-Free Zone, 205 10 An Environmentalism for Information, 230 Notes and Furt... ...me to many of these issues. The work of Richard Stallman, the creator of the free software movement, remains an inspiration even though he pro- foundl... ...pro- foundly disagrees with my nomenclature here—and with much else besides. Activists, civil rights lawyers, bloggers, and librarians have actually d... ...The entire community of librarians de- serves our thanks for standing up for free public access to knowledge for over two hundred years. Librarians ar... ...ve right akin to a trademark over the word “Olympic” and will not permit gay activists to hold a “Gay Olympic Games.” The Supreme Court sees no First ... ... on our culture, our kids’ schools, and our communications networks; on free speech, medicine, and scientific research. We are wasting some of the prom... ...the patenting of human genes, or the relationship between copyright and free speech, are not merely interesting, they are important. It seems like a b... ...a that there might be constitutional challenges to the regulation of digital speech by copyright law may wallow in those arguments to their hearts’ co...

...music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it i...