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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...ly that is because intuitions about ownership coming naturally with labor or discovery continue to influence the law. Partly it is because those moral ... ...s filed and renewed. Does Mr. West infringe this copyright? That is where the discovery of the Bailey Gospel Singers recording is potentially so import... ...ways that seem truly valuable—valuable to free speech, innovation, scientific discovery, the wallets of consumers, to what William Fisher calls “semiot... ...rma- ceutical industry (though it might help with certain stages of the drug discovery process). Still, just as it would be silly to dismiss the impor... ...gized it to letting the phone company say, “we will delay your call to Pizza Hut for sixty seconds, but if you want to be put through to our featured ... ...here is the less merit in the authors; and because, for the same reason, the discovery might be expected in a short time from other hands....M onopoli...

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