Keywords
public domain
public interest
global knowledge governance
public interest
global knowledge governance
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Wilf, S. (2020). From public domain to public interest. Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny I Socjologiczny, 82(2), 5–18. https://doi.org/10.14746/rpeis.2020.82.2.1
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Abstract
This brief essay is an exploration of how the public domain came to achieve its place as a focus of attention, how it shaped a generation of scholars, and why public interest might be a more salient construct for thinking about how to foster a public-directed system of global knowledge governance. In short, this is the story of the rise, fall, and reincarnation – as public interest – of the public domain.
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Benkler, Y. (1999). Free as air to common use: First Amendment constraints on enclosure of the public domain. New York University Law Review 74(2): 354–436.
Boyle, J. (2003). The second enclosure movement and the construction of the public domain. Law & Contemporary Problems 66(1/2): 33–74.
Cunningham, R. (2010). The tragedy of (ignoring) the information semicommons: a cultural environmental perspective. Akron Intellectual Property Right Journal 4(1): 1–33.
Frye, B.L. (2015). IP as metaphor. Chapman Law Review 18: 735–758.
Ginsburg, J. (1997). Authors and users in copyright, Journal of the Copyright Society 45: 1–20.
Huang, H. (2009). On public domain in copyright law. Frontiers of Law in China 4(2): 178–195.
Jacobs, R.W. (2014). In privity with the public domain: the standing doctrine, the public interest, and intellectual property, Santa Clara High Tech Law Journal 30(3): 415–467.
Kapczynski, A. (2008). The access to knowledge mobilization and the new politics of intellectual property. Yale Law Journal 117(5): 804–885.
Land, M.K. (2018). The Marrakesh treaty: ‘bottom-up’ lawmaking: supporting local human rights action on IP policy. University of California Irvine Law Review 8(3): 513–553.
Lange, D. (1981). Recognizing the public domain. Law & Contemporary Problems 44(Fall): 147–178.
Lange, D. (2003). Reimagining the public domain. Law & Contemporary Problems 66(1/2): 463–483.
Lemley, M.A. (2005). Property, intellectual property, and free riding. Texas Law Review 83: 1031–1076.
Litman, J.D. (1990). The public domain. Emory Law Journal 39(Fall): 965–1023.
Liu, J.P. (2013). The new public domain. University of Illinois Law Review 2013(4): 1395–1456.
Merges, R. (2000). One Hundred Years of Solicitude: intellectual property law 1900–2000. California Law Review 88: 2187–2240.
Merges, R. (2004). A new dynamism in the public domain. University of Chicago Law Review 71: 183–203.
Ochoa, T.T. (2002). Origins and meanings of the public domain. University of Dayton Law Review 28: 215–266.
Ochoa, T.T. (2002). Origins and meanings of the public domain. University of Dayton Law Review 28(2): 215–267.
Rosati, E. (2019). Copyright and the Court of Justice of the European Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Rose, C. (2003). Romans, roads, and romantic creators: traditions of public property in the information age. Law & Contemporary Problems 66(1/2): 89–100.
Samuelson, P. (2003). Mapping the digital public domain: threats and opportunities. Law & Contemporary Problems 66(1/2): 147–171.
Samuelson, P. (2006). Challenges in mapping the public domain, [in:] L. Guibault, P.B. Hugenholz (eds.), The Future of the Public Domain: Identifying the Commons in Information Law. Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer Law International: 7–25.
Seville, C. (2006). The Internationalisation of Copyright Law: Books, Buccaneers, and the Black Flag in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Spoo, R. (2013). Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain. New York: Oxford University Press.
Sprigman, Ch. (2004). Reform(aliz)ing copyright. Stanford Law Review 57: 485–568.
Stern, S. (2012). ‘Room for One More’: the metaphorics of physical space in the eighteenth-century copyright debate. Law & Literature 24(2): 113–150.
Wilf, S. (2013). Intellectual property, [in:] S.E. Hadden, A.L. Brophy (eds.), A Companion to American Legal History. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell: 441–459.
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