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Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

In: Patrons, Curators, Inventors and Thieves

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  • Jonathan Wheeldon

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‘This is for everyone’ — so tweeted Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics. The message was instantly spelled out in lights around the cheering stadium and transmitted to hundreds of millions of people around the world. The internet as virtual commons, to which every citizen has a right of access, is now a well-established principle which few governments dare to challenge. The complicated and contested part is defining precisely what, amongst all the content and services available on the internet, should be in the public domain, what should be private and subject to protection, and what should be done by governments to ensure fair play amongst all interested parties.

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  • Jonathan Wheeldon, 2014. "Enclosing the Commons of the Mind," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Patrons, Curators, Inventors and Thieves, chapter 13, pages 202-212, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-30667-7_14
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230306677_14
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