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The Public Domain: Why Intellectual Property?
2008/12/16 (Tuesday) | Filed under: dt=book, ported from old Blogger blog

I’m reading The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle (pub. date: December, 2008!). I’ve long struggled with the basic dilemma of intellectual property. (I’ll focus on copyright, though similar arguments apply to patents and trademarks.) On one hand, it makes sense that an author, artist, musician, photographer, etc. ought to [...]

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