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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...ugust 13, 1813, p. 6. 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Pres... ... www.caravanbooks.org. Copyright © 2008 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Crea... ...ol Number: 2008932282 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48–19... ...tempt to tell the story of the battles over intellectual property, the range wars of the information age. I want to convince you that intellectual pro... ...estitute. We may spend more on pet psychiatry for the traumatized poodles on East 71st Street than on developing a cure for sleeping sickness, because... ...u- ments for the first enclosure movement. For example, during the Napoleonic Wars enclosure was defended as a necessary method of increasing the effici... ...a violation of copyright law? In a series of remarkable and far-seeing cases involving such issues, the courts said no. 22 “Decompilation” was fair us... ...That is what the Farmers’ Tale was all about. Perhaps one day, in a case not involving a Norwegian teenager, a hacker maga- zine run by a long-haired ... ...ry embodi- ment of all that is wrong. (I still cherish a friend’s account of British protesters outside the American Embassy in London singing “D-M-C-...

... 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: 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...

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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

...UBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... .... The story of “The Schoo- ner with a Past” may be heard, from the Straits east- ward, with many variations. Out in the Pacific the schooner becomes a... ... us from the past, with solemn approval, after the close of the Napoleonic wars and before the series of sanguinary surprises held in reserve by the n... ...d injustice, cannot well be exaggerated. The nineteenth century began with wars which were the issue of a corrupted revolution. It may be said that th... ...ives of economy. I did not speak to him. He trod the deck of that decadent British ship with a scornful foot while his breast (and to a large extent h... ...Bay of Biscay of an outward-bound convoy of transports, in the presence of British submarines in the Channel. Innumerable drifters flying the Naval fl... ...ll possible accidents of the sea. But suppose a collision out on the ocean involving damage as extensive as this one was, and suppose then a gale of w... ... speeds, and it ought to be remembered that in case of a big liner’s loss, involving many lives, she is gen- erally sunk by a ship much smaller than h...

....... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898..................................................

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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

... 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 C... ...Improvising a Homeland 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 ... ... Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States. Millions of men and women readied themselves for wor... ...y that America had attacked Islam;America is responsible for all conflicts involving Muslims.Thus Americans are blamed when Israelis fight with Palest... ...ectly) that the Saudis were sharing Tayyib’s information with the U.S. and British authorities. 86 At almost the same time, cell members learned that ... ...ons, and convictions. Counterterrorism and counterintelligence work, often involving lengthy intelligence investigations that might never have positiv... ... sto- ries of the twentieth century. It did not happen by accident. Recent wars have been waged and won decisively by brave men and women using advanc... ...nt spoke to the congressional leadership from Air Force One, and he called British Prime Min- ister T ony Blair, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif... ...ack a ship near Y emen. On January 3, an attempt was made to attack a U.S. warship in Aden, the USS The Sullivans.The attempt failed when the small bo...

...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 an...

...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 OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of B...

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