Expanding the public domain

Suw Charman Anderson, 14 September 2005

A transcript of James Boyle's remarks on the public domain, copyright and Creative Commons, given at the Association of Research Libraries 146th Membership Meeting, May 26 2005. James calls for more evidence-based thinking on intellectual property issues, something that is currently sorely lacking.

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Reply #2 on : Tue January 23, 2007, 13:30:58
[...] Geeklawyer thinks that getting someone to pay big bucks twice for the same thing is a pretty neat trick; he’s only ever managed it once. When it’s the government doing it to him however he is is a little more outraged. For example trying making him pay a second time to get access to statutes, or Ordnance Survey mapping data for which already paid via his taxes. [...]
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Reply #1 on : Fri June 15, 2007, 23:07:05
[...] Geeklawyer thinks that getting someone to pay big bucks twice for the same thing is a pretty neat trick; he’s only ever managed it once. When it’s the government doing it to him however he is a little more outraged. For example trying making him pay a second time to get access to statutes, or Ordnance Survey mapping data for which he already paid via his taxes. [...]

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