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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...steful and used the power of the copyright to suppress them. This is no mere fantasy, Macaulay tells us. After praising the novels of Samuel Richardso... ...lves and, thus, are a highly deceptive form of compensation; the Congress of German Economists resolves: that patents of invention are injurious to co... ...e slanted toward American sensibilities, downplaying both anti- Semitism and German expansionism. His solution? T o publish his own English translatio... ...on? T o publish his own English translation, taken direct and uncut from the German edition. He wanted to prove, with Hitler’s own words, that the Uni... ...o uses her sexuality for profit. Put them together and you have bookends—male fantasy and male nightmare. Was that Mr. West’s point? Perhaps. The song ... ...es’s song, not just because it sounded good but to contrast the image of the fantasy woman from Charles’s 1950s soul, who is faithful, sensual, and al... ...x the law in this area. When the case of Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films came up, they thought they had what they wanted. The band NWA had u... ... at http:// www.law.duke.edu/cspd/pdf/cspdproposal.pdf, and Access to Orphan Films: Submission to the Copyright Office—March 2005, available at http://... ...k: New York University Press, 2001). 22. Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films, 410 F .3d 792, 804n16 (6th Cir. 2005). 23. Walter Benjamin, “The W...

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