Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and OwnershipCommon as Air offers a stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past that continues to enrich our present. Suspicious of the current idea that all creative work is "intellectual property," Lewis Hyde turns to America's founding fathers—men like John Adams, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson—in search of other ways to value the fruits of human wit and imagination. What he discovers is a rich tradition in which knowledge was assumed to be a commonwealth, not a private preserve. |
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... Intellectual property. I. Title. ZA3270.H93 2010 001—dc22 2010002388 Designed by Abby Kagan www.fsgbooks.com 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 The jacket image derives from an engraving illustrating Benjamin Franklin's “Suppositions and Conjectures ...
... intellectual property,” and as modern as these cases are, the question behind them is very old: in what sense can someone own, and therefore control other people's access to, a work of fiction or a public speech or the ideas behind a ...
... Intellectual property” is the phrase now used to denote ownership of art and ideas, but what exactly does it mean? Does it make sense, to begin with, to say that “intellect” is the source of the “properties” in question? A novel like ...
... intellectual property” found in books. That said, part of the task of this book is to show the degree to which a phrase like “intellectual property” serves simply to obscure a long history of philosophical, legal, and ethical argument ...
... Intellectual property is no different than physical property. As the creator of your work, you should have the right to control what people can and cannot do with your work. Never copy someone else's creative work without permission ...
Contents
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3 THE ENCLOSURE OF CULTURE | 45 |
4 FRAMING A COMMONWEALTH | 78 |
5 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FOUNDING PIRATE | 112 |
6 LIBERTY TO COMMUNICATE | 135 |
7 THE COMMON SELF | 162 |
8 THE COMMON SELF NOW | 187 |
9 ENDURING COMMONS | 214 |
NOTES | 253 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 283 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 293 |
INDEX | 295 |