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The Public Domain
Book • 2008
In *The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind*, James Boyle explores the importance of the public domain and its erosion due to modern intellectual property laws.
He argues that a balance between protected and free ideas is crucial for innovation and culture.
The book discusses issues like gene sequences, musical sampling, and Internet file sharing, advocating for a movement to preserve the public domain akin to the environmental movement.
He argues that a balance between protected and free ideas is crucial for innovation and culture.
The book discusses issues like gene sequences, musical sampling, and Internet file sharing, advocating for a movement to preserve the public domain akin to the environmental movement.
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as a book that uses the metaphor of environmental politics to explain information politics.


Cory Doctorow

69 | Cory Doctorow on Technology, Monopoly, and the Future of the Internet
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as she recalls first meeting the author when he was promoting it.


Molly Shaffer Van Houweling

The Public Domain





