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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...an being, for example? Or stuff that is collectively owned—would that be the radio spectrum or a public park? Or stuff that is owned by no one, such a... ... complaint from those who normally object to inefficient gov- ernment subsidy programs.) Worst of all, we have turned the system on its head. Copyright... ... parody, commentary, and criticism, and also for “decompilation” of computer programs so that Microsoft’s competitors can reverse engineer Word’s feat... ...e software company producing expensive, specialized computer-assisted design programs costing thousands of dollars what happens when the program is ma... ...could even argue that Napster users would have access to most songs over the radio for free. But lawyers’ quibbling about which way the rule cuts in t... ...tors, you can quickly reach the same num- ber of ears that the payola-soaked radio waves allow the record companies to reach. One need not cheer Groks... ...y the storm. Kanye West, the hip hop musician, was one of them. Appearing on NBC on September 2, with the comedian Mike Myers, West started out seemin... ... to Chapter  1. Lisa de Moraes, “Kanye West’s Torrent of Criticism, Live on NBC,” Washington Post (September 3, 2005), C1, available at http://www.wa...

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