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An IP Environmentalism for Culture and Knowledge?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the made-up-words dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An article by James Boyle in the FT argues that we are (slowly) moving towards a 'cultural environmentalism' that tries to protect the public domain in the way that the environmental movement tries to protect the natural ecology. Apparently there will be a (free) conference at Stanford on the subject soon, organized by Larry Lessig's Center there."

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  1. Environmentalism For the Net? by P0ldy · · Score: 5, Informative
    A more elaborate explanation of this idea is in his essay "A Politics of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism For the Net?" from 1997.

    See section V.