...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...wonderful pudding of songs and pictures and films and books and magazines and newspapers, there is perhaps a hand- ful of raisins’ worth of works that ... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr... ...a “tax on literacy” or a “tax on knowledge,” identical in its effects to the newspaper stamp taxes. 52 This was a time when mass literacy and mass edu... ...searchers. 38 If a conservative Web site reposted news articles from liberal newspapers with critical commentary, that, too, would have seemed like fa... ...ct was an easy topic to get the public to focus on; we had the reporters and editors calling us, pleading for a quote or an opinion piece. Intellectua... ...nization of paid experts, each assigned a topic, with hierarchical layers of editors above them, producing a set of encyclopedic tomes that are rigoro... ...the movement to recognize and safeguard the public domain can start with the editors’ in- troductions to the Symposium Cultural Environmentalism @ 10,...