--- format: rst categories: book toc: no ... ============================ Common as Air ============================ :by: Lewis Hyde .. warning: These notes still in progress! 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 p73: copyright over cage's 4'3" ! (actually trademark) stinted markets: not "free" allodial vs. feudal ownership p125: "patent of importation" given to immigrant (not inventor) p129: franklin loved "public and durable knowledge"