...lty Editors Jim Manis & Carol Ann Ellis Student Editor Patty Haggerty Best of Four is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. The Pennsylv... ...he Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Best of Four: Student Voices is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ... campuses within the Commonwealth College that we were open to submissions from their students as well. This edition marks the first in which the Best... ...has become a Commonwealth College publication with the inclusion of essays from students at the Scranton- Worthington campus. We hope that the sixth e... ...ue. It was terrifying at first, considering that I was one of the smallest players in the league and my coach was now pitching the ball to us. When it... ...hing. The first time that I was ever drunk was at a keg party thrown by my football team. The party was to celebrate the end of our doubles sessions. ... ...essions. Doubles sessions, which are also called two-a-days, are a type of football practice. They are two practices a day, which are run before the s... ...specially by the teenagers who find joy in murder. This also puts blame on American society because we are the ones who promote these types of movies ... ...ghly competitive leagues and tournaments, there is a similar problem among players of any level: properly setting the volleyball. What is the best thi...

...Excerpt: Welcome to the fifth volume of Best of Four. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we have enjoyed bringing it to you. The purpose of Best of Four is to bring the best writing produced in English 004 each fall semester to the widest audience possible....

...... 7 The Best Birthday Is the Sixteenth Brent Heimbach ......................................................................... 9 Sharing the Bread of Angels Christa Sist ......................................................................................... 10 Tragedy in the Night Danielle Gehman ...........................................................................

.../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...ess Control Number: 2008932282 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO ... ...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...r service! No one is going to sue Apple now, of course. In fact, established players in the marketplace are probably fairly safe (and have better lawy... ...tion licenses the keys to this encryption system to the manufacturers of DVD players. Without a key, most DVDs could not be played. The manufacturer t... ... Justice implicitly underscored this point in a series of cases concern- ing football scores, horse racing results, and so on. Rejecting a protectioni... ...ed to rein in the database right. Mark J. Davison and P . Bernt Hugenholtz, “Football Fixtures, Horseraces and Spinoffs: The ECJ Domesticates the Data...

...e 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 is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...