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...ny Kelley, a brilliant composer, not only educated me in composition and the history of musical borrowing but co-taught a class on musical borrowing t... ...spired and informed by colleagues and students in computer science, English, history, and political science. But the work I am describing here is—as t... ... rules that define prop- erty in the information age. It is that problem, its history, philosophy, and politics that I try to sketch out in the pages a... ...rvaluing the public domain and the information commons at the very moment in history when we need them most. Academic articles and clever legal briefs... ...1930s, or the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depressio... ...gree with him from quoting his autobiography in dis- cussing his life. If an African-American author wishes to tell the story of Gone With the Wind fr... ...s watching pictures of a flooded New Orleans, seeing pleading citizens—mainly African-American—and a Keystone Cops response by the Federal Emergency Ma... ...e television played certain images over and over again. People—again, mainly African-Americans—were portrayed breaking into stores, pleading from roof... ...ific verbal and musical references, and, for much of the century, cutting the African-American artists out of the profits in the process. There is anoth...

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...Illiterate tribes of nomad herder-hunters unite under Genghis Khan and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. -- 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking direct human contact between Europe and China just in time to let InfoTech wonders from the East nourish the Renaissance. -- 11. The Missing Keys to Science Che...

...004) English Biochemist 63 JAMES D. WATSON (1928 -) American Biochemist 63 CLOSING STATEMENTS 64 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 67 WHERE MUCH OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE STARTED WITH THE GREAT MEN AND WOMEN OF SCIENCE ABSTRACT ON THE GENESIS OF AN ORDERLY AND SYSTEMATIC UNIVERSE 68 THE STORY OF THE CELL AND BIOLOGY 73 BIOLOGY AS A SCIENCE 73 BIOLOGICAL ORGANIZATIO...