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Article: Preserving the public domain.(copyright corner)
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- Information Outlook
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- September 1, 2003
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From time to time this column has discussed the public domain and the important role it plays in U.S. copyright law. Two recent developments have significant potential to enhance the public domain. In fact, they are aimed at increasing the amount of material in the public domain in the face of the changes wrought by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Supreme Court's upholding of term extension.
Creative Commons
The most comprehensive proposal is the development of the Creative Commons, launched in 2001. The brainchild of Professors Larry Lessig of Stanford and James Boyle at Duke, the Commons encourages creators to place their works in the ...