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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...hey can’t make money, how are we to induce people to be authors or to be the investors who put money into the publishing or pharmaceutical business? I... ...wipers that come on intermittently in light rain—and the in- novator and her investors make a bet that they can meet that need. (Not all of Why Intell... ...ituations. Too far in one direction and innovation suffers because potential investors realize good ideas will immediately be copied. Too far in the o... ...oint of view of intellectual property policy, its fate would deter potential investors in other databases—databases that we would lose without even kn...

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