copyright | On the Commons

Creative Tension Between the Individual and the Group

Lewis Hyde on the cultural dynamics of the commons

And gives nothing back in return because Mickey Mouse is locked up under copyright in the castle

How cooperation boosts art, science and everything else

Musopen is ingeniously freeing classical music from the chains of copyrighted recordings.

Digital commoners of diverse stripes get serious about public policy.

The oddly compelling literary remix of Nabokov's "Lolita" and Lessig's "Future of Ideas."

Is it appropriate to copyright divinely inspired expression?

Publishers want to outlaw unauthorized Web links, neuter search engines.

Secret intellectual property treaty could profoundly change life on the Internet