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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...re generally, Paul Ginsparg in astrophysics, and Harlan Onsrud in geospatial data. Paul Uhlir’s work at the National Academy of Sciences intro- duced ... ...nnium Copy- right Act, to trademark “anti-dilution” rulings, to the European Database Protection Directive. 18 The old limits to intellectual property... ...discoveries, prior research, images, genres of work, cultural references, or databases of single nucleotide polymorphisms—each is raw material for fut... ...low intellectual property rights to move closer and closer to the underlying data The Second Enclosure Movement 49 ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 37278_u01.qxd 8/2... ... come very close to being rights over a particular discovered arrangement of data—C’s, G’s, A’s, and T’s. 34 Other challenges are overt: the European ... ...pted file is very large....O ne solution to this problem, however, is DivX, a compression utility available on the Internet that is promoted as a means...

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