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+============================
+Common as Air
+============================
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+:by: Lewis Hyde
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+.. warning: These notes still in progress!
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+p50: double telescope story (patents are public)
+
+p51: old history of publishers over authors
+
+land as canonical property: feudal commons, then enclosure
+
+p61: present value analysis says 20+ year copyright no incentive today
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+p73: copyright over cage's 4'3" ! (actually trademark)
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+stinted markets: not "free"
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+allodial vs. feudal ownership
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+p125: "patent of importation" given to immigrant (not inventor)
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+p129: franklin loved "public and durable knowledge"
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