Take some time to think about copyright this week

The State of Things is a show produced by North Carolina Public Radio. This week host Frank Stasio interviewed James Boyle, a Duke law professor and co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, about his new book The Public Domain. Boyle explains how the public domain is getting smaller and smaller and the ways modern copyright laws are strangling accessibility to 20th century culture.

• Listen to the interview
• Download the book, appropriately being distributed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license

And speaking of Creative Commons, have you taken their non-commercial survey yet? If not, the deadline’s been extended. They want to understand how people feel about the term “noncommercial use.”

• Read the Creative Commons blog post
• Take the survey

This entry was posted by Ruth Suehle on Thursday, December 11th, 2008 at 11:11 am and is filed under culture, truth. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.