Of songs and chairs, or why do we need a public domain

Scholarly Communications @ Duke 2014-04-23

Summary:

I recently received an email from an author asking me if I would write a post about why we need a public domain.  Specifically, the questioner asked me why some things pass into the public domain while others do not; his example was that if you write a song, it eventually becomes PD, but if [...]

Link:

http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2014/04/22/of-songs-and-chairs-or-why-do-we-need-a-public-domain/

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copyright information notes public domain

Authors:

Kevin Smith, J.D.

Date tagged:

04/23/2014, 00:30

Date published:

04/22/2014, 14:49