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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

.../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...lumns written for that forum. Chapter 10 has its roots both in my article “A Politics of Intellec- tual Property: Environmentalism for the Net?” 3 and... ...rty in the information age. It is that problem, its history, philosophy, and politics that I try to sketch out in the pages ahead. Acknowledgments x -... ...nclosure. Law students across America read Moore v. Regents of University of California, a California Supreme Court case deciding that Mr. Moore had n... ...eedom to add to it, and she did—“My Life.” Changed. On December 15, 2002, in San Francisco, a charitable organization called Creative Commons was laun... ...m to add to it, and she did—“My Life.” Changed. On December 15, 2002, in San Francisco, a charitable organization called Creative Commons was launched... ...rsity Press, 2004). 2. These types of patents are discussed in Chapter 7. 3. San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc., et al. v. United States Olympic Com... ...y Press, 2004). 2. These types of patents are discussed in Chapter 7. 3. San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc., et al. v. United States Olympic Committ...

...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends ; Selected and Edited with Notes and Introd. By Sidney Colvin : Volume 1

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...V olume 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...r, and so she soon drew away and left me to her lord, who talked of French politics, Africa, and domestic economy with great vivacity. From Ostend a s... ...I knew I was in Scotland, and launched out forthright into Educa- tion and Politics and the aims of one’s life. I told him how I had found the peasant... ... of the mistress. R. L. S. CHAPTER IV – THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT, MONTEREY AND SAN FRANCISCO, JULY 1879-JULY 1880 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN ON BOARD SS. ‘D... ...the mistress. R. L. S. CHAPTER IV – THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT, MONTEREY AND SAN FRANCISCO, JULY 1879-JULY 1880 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN ON BOARD SS. ‘DEVON... ...e closes. Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN [IN THE EMIGRANT TRAIN FROM NEW YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO, AUGUST 1879.] DEAR COLVIN, – I am in the cars between Pittsb... ...oses. Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN [IN THE EMIGRANT TRAIN FROM NEW YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO, AUGUST 1879.] DEAR COLVIN, – I am in the cars between Pittsburgh... ... R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN [COAST LINE MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA, SEPTEMBER 1879.] HERE is another curious start in my life. I am...

Excerpt: The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One.

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rth America V ol. 1 chew the cud and digest the bearings of those external politics. But it is unjust in the one to decide upon the political aspirati... ...on of ideas which I take to be neces- sary to the understanding of English politics! The gentle- man who scorned my wife for hugging her chains had ce... ...rained them from rushing to the seizure of New Orleans, when the treaty of San Lorenzo El Real, in 1795, stipulated for them a pre- carious right of n... ...have then to account for the two already admitted States on the Pa- cific, California and Oregon, and also for the unadmitted Territories, Dacotah, Ne... ...pt to marshal these huge but thinly-populated re- gions in either rank. Of California and Oregon it may prob- ably be said that it is their ambition t... ... the shrine of the coined goddess has carried them across from New York to San Francisco. Men who kneel at that shrine are called on to have ready wit... ... shrine of the coined goddess has carried them across from New York to San Francisco. Men who kneel at that shrine are called on to have ready wits an...

....................................................................................................................... 212 CHAPTER XV: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ................................................................. 243 CHAPTER XVI: BOSTON..................................................................................................................

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To Build a Fire : And Other Stories

By: Jack London

...2 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Wisdom of the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Odyssey of the N... ... . . 44 An Odyssey of the North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Law of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 The God of His... ...n that line I ever did in my 1 First magazine publication in Overland Monthly, San Francisco, Jan., 1899. First book publi cation in The Son of the W... ...at line I ever did in my 1 First magazine publication in Overland Monthly, San Francisco, Jan., 1899. First book publi cation in The Son of the Wolf,... ...pect, with a scant six days’ 2 First magazine publication in Overland Monthly, San Francisco, Feb., 1899. First book pub lication in The Son of the W... ..., with a scant six days’ 2 First magazine publication in Overland Monthly, San Francisco, Feb., 1899. First book pub lication in The Son of the Wolf,... ...ther for company, begin to quarrel. Weatherbee loved to discourse blatantly on politics, while Cuth fert, who had been prone to clip his coupons and ... ...ublication in Brandur Magazine, Oct., 1902. Second magazine publication in The California Review, V ol. 2, No. 6, pp. 376 83, 1904. 118 JACK LONDON B... ... an institution, you know. It belongs to the State of California and is run by politics. I know. I’ve been here a long time. Everybody trusts me. I ru...

...t when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sinking a hole...

...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old ...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is f... ...ity. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...es of the Organ.........................................121 Facing West from California’s Shores ....................................................1... ...the Conquer’d Fame..137 We Two Boys Together Clinging.......138 A Promise to California.....................138 Here the Frailest Leaves of Me........... ...e life that has exhibited itself, Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates, rulers and priests, I, habitan of the Alleghanies, ... ...ablishments, even the most minute, Thither every day life, speech, utensils, politics, persons, estates; Thither we also, I with my leaves and songs, ... ...e, The city wharf, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, San Francisco, the departing ships when the sailors heave at the capstan;... ...he city wharf, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, San Francisco, the departing ships when the sailors heave at the capstan; Eve...

...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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The Good Soldier

By: Ford Madox Ford

...s Series Publication The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ... forming the character of my poor dear wife. Just before they set out from San Francisco for the South Seas old Mr Hurlbird said he must take somethin... ...ming the character of my poor dear wife. Just before they set out from San Francisco for the South Seas old Mr Hurlbird said he must take something wi... ...t struck him that the things to take for that purpose were oranges—because California is the orange country—and comfortable folding chairs. So he boug... ...chairs. So he bought I don’t know how many cases of oranges—the great cool California oranges, and half-a-dozen folding chairs in a special case that ... ...ing. He was keen on soldiering, keen on mathematics, on land-surveying, on politics and, by a queer warp of his mind, on literature. Even when he was ... ...sh society. Indeed, Englishmen seem to me to be a little mad in matters of politics or of religion. In Edward it was particularly queer because he him...

...Excerpt: This is the saddest story I have ever heard. We had known the Ashburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme intimacy--or, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy and yet as close as a good glove?s with your hand. My wife and I knew Captain and Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possibl...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ... he had earned enough to follow two brothers who had answered the lure of California gold. Stranded on the Isthmus on his way west, Darius had to det... ...O. Mills Bank in Sacramento in 1850 and later helped organize the Bank of San Francisco. That bank, a profitable business with unlimited credit, boa... ...ills Bank in Sacramento in 1850 and later helped organize the Bank of San Francisco. That bank, a profitable business with unlimited credit, boasted... ...nt and returned East in 1873. Just two years later, that same Bank of San Francisco closed its doors with millions in liabilities and only hundr... ...and returned East in 1873. Just two years later, that same Bank of San Francisco closed its doors with millions in liabilities and only hundred t... ...n are tales of ―palace intrigue‖ as well as political machinations, power politics, information manipulation, etc., through the ages. The Stationers‘... ...Y: Anchor Press, 1976. Miller, Kristie. Ruth Hanna McCormick: A Life in Politics, 1880–1944. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992. ...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ...Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...esort. The influences about him create his preferences, his aversions, his politics, his tastes, his mor als, his religion. He creates none of these ... ... a voter wears, you know what his associations are, and how he came by his politics, and which breed of news paper he reads to get light, and which b... ...rane ous matter that helped me to another link. It made me notorious, and San Francisco invited me to lecture. Which I did. And profitably. I had lon... ... ous matter that helped me to another link. It made me notorious, and San Francisco invited me to lecture. Which I did. And profitably. I had long ha... ...s: “In that region the weather —” “At that time it was a custom —” “But in California one never heard —” Eleven of them. They initialed the brief divi... ...ghtning; its duty was to remind me when it was time to begin to talk about San Francisco weather, where there is no lightning—nor thunder, either—and... ...ing; its duty was to remind me when it was time to begin to talk about San Francisco weather, where there is no lightning—nor thunder, either—and it ...

............................................................................................................................................ 4 THE DEATH OF JEAN ............................................................................................................................................ 75 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE ...............................................

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Lay Morals

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... SERIES PUBLICATION Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... is at least tangible; would you do it, then, for a doubtful fore- cast in politics, or another person’s theory in morals? So intricate is the scheme ... ... thirty, or a hundred thousand at his banker’s, or if all Yorkshire or all California were his to manage or to sell, he would still be morally pennile... ...isagreeable remembrance is of a bracing, Republican postman in the city of San Francisco. I lived in that city among working folk, and what my neighbo... ...reeable remembrance is of a bracing, Republican postman in the city of San Francisco. I lived in that city among working folk, and what my neighbours ... ...geneous company as ours) might be of incalculable value in all branches of politics and social progress. It would do more than this. If we could find ...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any sem blance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the tru...

...................4 FATHER DAMIEN.........................................................................................43 THE PENTLAND RISING A PAGE OF HISTORY 1666 ............................57 THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW................................................................74 COLLEGE PAPERS.............................................................................

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...rant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ich were common in the West at that time. He always took an active part in politics, but was never a candidate for office, except, I believe, that he ... ...ss for one term during the rebellion. Mr. White was al- ways a Democrat in politics, and Chilton followed his fa- ther. He had two older brothers—all ... ...mber, small trains were sent from Corpus Christi, with cavalry escorts, to San Antonio and Austin, with paymasters and funds to pay off small detach- ... ... nied one of them in December, 1845. The distance from Cor- pus Christi to San Antonio was then computed at one hundred and fifty miles. Now that road... ...ARRIAGE— ORDERED TO THE PACIFIC COAST— CROSSING THE ISTHMUS—ARRIVAL AT SAN FRANCISCO MY EXPERIENCE in the Mexican war was of great advantage to me aft... ...nts were spreading it. Soon after his graduation, Slaughter was ordered to California and took passage by a sailing vessel going around Cape Horn. The... ...sease did not break out again on the way to California, and we reached San Francisco early in September. CHAPTER XV SAN FRANCISCO—EARLY CALIFORNIA EXP...

Excerpt: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by U.S. Grant.

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ...istration’s Approach 203 7. THE ATTACK LOOMS 215 7.1 First Arrivals in California 215 7.2 The 9/11 Pilots in the United States 223 7.3 Assembl... ... heard. 45 Also at 8:52, a male flight attendant called a United office in San Francisco, reaching Marc Policastro.The flight attendant reported that ... ...rd. 45 Also at 8:52, a male flight attendant called a United office in San Francisco, reaching Marc Policastro.The flight attendant reported that the ... ... took off from Newark (New Jersey) Liberty International Airport bound for San Francisco.The aircraft was piloted by Cap- tain Jason Dahl and First Of... ...k off from Newark (New Jersey) Liberty International Airport bound for San Francisco.The aircraft was piloted by Cap- tain Jason Dahl and First Office... ...existence as a nation, Pakistan’s identity had derived from Islam, but its politics had been decidedly secular.The army was—and remains—the country’s ... ...0s onward, religion had become an increasingly powerful force in Pakistani politics.After a coup in 1977, military leaders turned to Islamist groups f...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democra...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

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