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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...g of the human genome? We could turn to the cutting edge of technology or to economics or information theory. But none of those would be as useful a s... ... The great economist Kenneth Arrow formalized this insight about information economics, 58 and it profoundly shapes intellectual prop- erty policy. (T... ...ed because the law was being stretched to cover new types of products, whose economics were very different from those of novels. Rather than let the d... ...s even more basic. They are networks and thus subject to the laws of network economics. In short, they only work well if many people use them. A perso... ...signs calling for the law’s repeal— to the great confusion of the diplomatic personnel.) The critics conjure up a digital apocalypse—a world of perfec... ... did indeed sound like “we get our Thursdays from a banana.” There is an old economics joke about the impossibility of finding a twenty- dollar bill ly...

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