Stopping The Privatization Of Public Knowledge

writes \”TomPaine has a piece on The Endangered Public Domain
from the book \”Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth\”
He says content aggregators — film studios, publishers, record labels –brazenly cast a broad net of claimed ownership rights in the intangibles of our culture. Whether it is an image, a sound riff, a screen persona or an acronym, chances are that some white-shoe attorney in Los Angeles or New York will send a \”nasty-gram\” letter claiming that our shared culture — even silence — belongs to some mega-corporation.
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August 9, 2002 by Uncategorized 0

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