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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...rld. I owe the biggest debt of grat- itude to my colleague Jennifer Jenkins, who directs the Center and who has influenced every chapter in this book. ... ...k on music and sampling. Peter Jaszi was named in my last book as the person who most influenced it. That influence remains. Beyond the academy, my main... ...mendment problem with this. 3 Margaret Mitchell’s estate fa- mously tried to use copyright to prevent Gone With the Wind from being told from a slave’... ...ose their work. 6 In some cases it effectively removes the privilege of fair use. Each day brings some new Internet horror story about the excesses of... ...nvolved, the words “stock options” worked their normal, morally debilitating magic. In internal company correspondence, attacks on the hypocrisy of th... ... for literature: the expan- sion of copyright’s ambit to cover plotlines and characters makes it more questionable. Certainly many recognized forms of... ...r “Gold Digger.” One offers the feminine virtues of modesty and fidelity, but magically combines them with wantonness where the singer is concerned and... ...ovement has been pronounced enough to generate its own reaction. The popular comics site “xkcd” has strips critical of the Digital Millennium Copyrigh... ... the Public Domain, 2006), available in full at http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics. An expanded edition of Bound By Law will be published in the Fall...

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