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Common as Air
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: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"