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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...onmental movement—to preserve the public domain. The explosion of industrial technologies that threatened the environ- ment also taught us to recogniz... ...ny readers with little additional effort or cost. Indeed, de- pending on the technologies of reproduction, it may be very hard to exclude people from ... ...us the “problem” of cheap copying in fact becomes a virtue. Second, the same technologies that make copying cheaper may also lower the costs of advert... ...the lamp-oil sellers the right to define the rules under which the newfangled electric light companies would operate.) There would be no easy counterwe... ...on from the beginning of the chapter, that all cars be assumed to be getaway vehicles for the felonious filchers of vegeta- bles, and thus that they sh... ...ized and as well understood as valves, screws, capacitors, or resistors. The electrical engineer told to build a circuit does not go out and invent he... ...g, with biological black boxes that perform all of the standard functions of electrical or mechanical engineering—measuring flow, reacting to a high si...

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