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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...1930s, or the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depressio... ...gree with him from quoting his autobiography in dis- cussing his life. If an African-American author wishes to tell the story of Gone With the Wind fr... ...s watching pictures of a flooded New Orleans, seeing pleading citizens—mainly African-American—and a Keystone Cops response by the Federal Emergency Ma... ...e television played certain images over and over again. People—again, mainly African-Americans—were portrayed breaking into stores, pleading from roof... ...ific verbal and musical references, and, for much of the century, cutting the African-American artists out of the profits in the process. There is anoth... ...hat a series of rapid improvisations by courts, scientists, programmers, and businesspeople has largely mitigated any prob- lems caused by the process... ...stem and offer information or products to the world. Another group—scholars, businesspeople, bureaucrats—points out the problems. Anyone could connect...

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