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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...re in full? Should anyone own the protocols—the agreed-upon common technical standards—that make the Internet possible? Does reading a Web page count ... ... place—unless the state steps in somehow to change the equation. This is the standard argument for intellectual property rights. And a very good argum... ...recognize the author’s claim beyond his lifetime but consecrated the notion, advanced first by Pierre Manuel to defend his edition of Mirabeau, that th... ...gh with rights to make fair use, as well as with limitations on ownership of standard themes. Instead of the simple tiled map, the granular vision has... ...ngs that can be used as fence-cutters—a prospect that worries researchers on encryption. In the long run, we must get rid of the trouble- some anonymi... ...eir works or control our behavior once we get access. These measures include encryption, controls The Farmers’ T ale 85 ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 37278_u01.qxd... ... Act, it became illegal to circumvent a technical protection measure such as encryption—the digital barbed wire behind which content companies secrete... ...... ...ame page. No need to pay iT unes or worry about breaking the law. Go to the “advanced” page on Flickr, the popular photo sharing site, and you will fin...

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