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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...urplus produced by enclosure helped to save a society devastated by the mass deaths of the sixteenth century. Those who weep over the terrible ef- fec... ...7278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 52 their images should end with their deaths, and that courts would agree that those rights were tightly limite... ...goes by the name Emmanuel Goldstein—the resistance leader in George Orwell’s 1984. In 1999, Universal City Studios brought suit against a number of in... ... Jefferson, Writings, ed. Merrill D. Peterson (New York: Library of America, 1984), 1321. 9. Letter to McPherson, 333. 10. Ibid., 333–334. 11. Ibid. 1... ...8). 17. Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417 (1984). 18. See Tina Balio, Museum of Broadcast Communications, “Betamax C... ...o the Supreme Court, which reversed the appeals court decision on 17 January 1984. By 1986, VCRs had been in- stalled in fifty percent of American home... ...rguments in System De- sign,” ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (November 1984): 277. 32. Technically, this discussion fuses components of the Inte...

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