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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...eoretical and empirical studies have helped me to understand everything from software patents to synthetic biology. Jerry Reichman has supplied energy... ... many of these issues. The work of Richard Stallman, the creator of the free software movement, remains an inspiration even though he pro- foundly dis... ...hem obsolete with word processors, or develop functional voice recog- nition software, or just concentrate on making solar-powered backscratchers? Who... ...some aspects of the innovation may truly be nonrival, other aspects may not. Software is nonrival and hard to exclude people from, but it Why Intellec... ...f culture will be able to assemble vast teams of animators and musicians and software gurus and meld their labors into a videotape that will successfu... ...movie companies and record companies saw this as a flagrant, for-profit piracy ring. Grokster’s response was that like the makers of the VCR, it was sim... .../lessig.org/blog/2006/01/google_book_search_the_argumen.html. 7. See Barbara Ringer, “Study Number 31: Renewal of Copyright,” reprinted in U.S. Sen- a... ... 280n5, 281n6. Richardson, Samuel, 26–27, 156. Rinaudo, Keller, 175, 285n12. Ringer, Barbara, 9, 253n7. Ritz, David, 127, 279, 280n2, 281n6. Rob, Rafa...

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