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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...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... ...ne the freedom to add to it, and she did—“My Life.” Changed. On December 15, 2002, in San Francisco, a charitable organization called Creative Commons... ... 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://... ...operty Clause: A Study in Historical Perspective (Buffalo, N.Y.: W. S. Hein, 2002), gives a magiste- rial account of the origins of the U.S. Constitut... ...t and Copyright Clause,” Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society 84 (2002): 909–940, offer a vision of the history that is closest to the one ... ...gins and Meanings of the Public Domain,” University of Dayton Law Review 28 (2002): 215–267, provides the same service for the concept of the public d... ...nt and Copyright Clause,” Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. 49 (2002): 675–706. One scholar has offered a thoughtful critique that sugges... ...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... ...bham, 187, 288n9. Bridgeport Music case (Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films, 383 F .3d 390 (6th Cir. 2004)), 149–152, 154, 155, 156, 158, 159, ...

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