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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...adame Bovary, or the antibiotic, or The New York Times? Well, it depends. If books have to be copied out by hand, then Madame Bovary is just like the ... ...music were a threat to the traditional music business, but digital copies of books? I am skeptical. This book will be freely and legally available onl... ...true copyright statute—was produced partly because of publishers’ fights with booksellers; the authorial right grew as an afterthought. 5 The history o... ...tp://catalog.loc.gov/. This is an astounding repository of material—not just books and periodicals, but pictures, films, and music. The vast majority o... ...vast majority of this material, perhaps as much as 95 percent in the case of books, is commercially unavailable. 6 The process happens comparatively q... ...der the General Public License. From its initial cre- ation by Larry Wall in 1987, Perl has been adapted, modified, and developed by an extraordinary r... ... & Athletics, Inc., et al. v. United States Olympic Committee, 483 U.S. 522 (1987). See also James Boyle, Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and the ... ...ner, Fast Forward: Hollywood, the Japanese & the VCR Wars (New York: Norton, 1987). One needs only to scan its pages to pick up the eerie foreshadowin... ...s & Athletics, Inc, et al. v. United States Olympic Committee, 483 U.S. 522 (1987). See U.S. Olympic Committee, rights over the term ‘Olympic.’ scènes...

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