Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

Jonathan Wheeldon

Chapter 13 in Patrons, Curators, Inventors and Thieves, 2014, pp 202-212 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract ‘This is for everyone’ — so tweeted Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics. The message was instantly spelled out in lights around the cheering stadium and transmitted to hundreds of millions of people around the world. The internet as virtual commons, to which every citizen has a right of access, is now a well-established principle which few governments dare to challenge. The complicated and contested part is defining precisely what, amongst all the content and services available on the internet, should be in the public domain, what should be private and subject to protection, and what should be done by governments to ensure fair play amongst all interested parties.

Keywords: Public Domain; Common Land; Intellectual Property System; Electronic Frontier Foundation; Successful Tale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230306677_14

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