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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...urplus produced by enclosure helped to save a society devastated by the mass deaths of the sixteenth century. Those who weep over the terrible ef- fec... ...7278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 52 their images should end with their deaths, and that courts would agree that those rights were tightly limite... ...der the General Public License. From its initial cre- ation by Larry Wall in 1987, Perl has been adapted, modified, and developed by an extraordinary r... ... & Athletics, Inc., et al. v. United States Olympic Committee, 483 U.S. 522 (1987). See also James Boyle, Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and the ... ...ner, Fast Forward: Hollywood, the Japanese & the VCR Wars (New York: Norton, 1987). One needs only to scan its pages to pick up the eerie foreshadowin... ...s & Athletics, Inc, et al. v. United States Olympic Committee, 483 U.S. 522 (1987). See U.S. Olympic Committee, rights over the term ‘Olympic.’ scènes...

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