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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...nsiders legislative proposals that would allow the ownership of facts. 5 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act gives content providers a whole array of... ...ium Copyright Act gives content providers a whole array of legally protected digital fences to en- close their work. 6 In some cases it effectively re... ... the idea that there might be constitutional challenges to the regulation of digital speech by copyright law may wallow in those arguments to their he... ...de on the likely effects of her innova- tion. If I know I have developed the digital camera, I may sell the conven- tional film company’s shares short.... ...this book. Nor does a lowering of copying costs hurt every industry equally. Digital copies of music were a threat to the traditional music business, ... ...tituency which supported governmental efforts to that end. The duck hunter’s preservation of wetlands as a species habitat turns out to have wider fun... ...y position on intellectual property, still less ones that took seriously the preservation of the public domain or the idea that intellectual property ... ...have dedicated themselves to advocacy and to litigation around the themes of preservation of the public domain, defense of limitations and exceptions ...

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