...about. We are mak- ing bad decisions that will have a negative effect on our culture, our kids’ schools, and our communications networks; on free spee... ...28/08 11:04 AM Page xii there are powerful counterweights in both law and culture to the negative trends I describe here. There are lots of reasons... ...ary communication to others, free as the air to common use.” 12 Our art, our culture, our science depend on this public domain every bit as much as th... ...en intellectual property and the public domain is important in every area of culture, science, and technology. As a result, it ranges widely in subjec... ...work. You have a preference for democracy and liberty and you want a vibrant culture: a culture with a little chunk of everything, one that offers hun... ...uch rather have had twopence to buy a plate of shin of beef at a cook’s shop underground. 24 Again, I am struck by how seamlessly Macaulay coupled bea... ...nder a fit of the spleen” or buying a “plate of shin of beef at a cook’s shop underground.” Almost as hard as it is to imagine any of them engaging in ... ...uch rather have had twopence to buy a plate of shin of beef at a cook’s shop underground. 12 The art form is different, but the thought of a 1960s Cli...

...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclo...

...ia. 14. Printers as Agents of Change After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding accumulate... ... just to learn to read, write, and do simple arithmetic. Pictographic culture‘s rigorous nature, moreover, left priests and scribes with little ... ... for the four centuries before 1500 BC. Bringing together those different cultures must have made it obvious that they needed an easier way to commu... ... The Chinese language‘s continuity and flexibility has sustained China‘s culture down through the ages—perhaps most significantly by helping to uni... ...four years. His travelogue featured cities with golden roofs in a Chinese culture so far superior to anything in the West that it dazzled his reader... ...s built into their country houses a hypocaust central heating system with underground furnaces and tile flues to distribute the heat. But for fift...

...reaks the chains of ignorance that held most of mankind in bondage for millennia. -- 14. Printers as Agents of Change-After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding accumulated knowledge, but the shift from script to print amplifies, reinforces, and disseminates the power of knowledge. -- 15. Capitalists‘ Link to Ink-Printer...

...services whose importance is only enhanced by the "free for all" Internet culture. Content intermediaries grade content and separate the qualitat... ...ers, movers and shapers. These two neglected aspects of Internet hype and culture led to the trouncing of erstwhile promising web media companies wh... ...ny and in Subiaco, Italy) shunned it and regarded it as a major threat to culture and civilization. Their attacks on printing read like the litanies... ...ny other factors which determine the interaction of free and paid content. Culture plays an important role as do the law and technology. But as long ... ...sist that others don't. Q. Technology is often considered the antonym of "culture". TV, for instance, is berated for its vulgar, low-brow, programmi... ... as mere re-arrangements of the same information is wrong. Actually, this underground ocean of covertintelligence is often more valuable than the in... ...en generate added circulation and income. It can be even conceived as an "underground, non-commercial, alternative" newspaper for a wholly different ...

...ia. 14. Printers as Agents of Change After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding accumulate... ...ng just to learn to read, write, and do simple arithmetic. Pictographic culture‘s rigorous nature, moreover, left priests and scribes with little ... ... for the four centuries before 1500 BC. Bringing together those different cultures must have made it obvious that they needed an easier way to commu... ... The Chinese language‘s continuity and flexibility has sustained China‘s culture down through the ages—perhaps most significantly by helping to uni... ...four years. His travelogue featured cities with golden roofs in a Chinese culture so far superior to anything in the West that it dazzled his reader... ...s built into their country houses a hypocaust central heating system with underground furnaces and tile flues to distribute the heat. But for fifte...