Common as air
Subtitle: revolution, art, and ownership
By: Lewis Hyde.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780374223137
Subjects: Information commons; Arts; Culture; Intellectual property
Description: In this lively, carefully argued, and well-documented book, Hyde brings the past to bear on present matters, shedding fresh light on everything from the Human Genome Project to Bob Dylan's musical root, revealing a vision of how to reclaim the commonwealth of art and ideas that we were meant to inherit.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Defending the cultural commons; title: What is a commons?; title: The enclosure of culture; title: Framing a commonwealth; title: Benjamin Franklin, founding pirate; title: Liberty to communicate; title: The common self; title: The common self now; title: Enduring commons.