Common as Air

By Lewis Hyde

Subjects: Wikipedia, cultural commons, intellectual property, ownership, culture, copyright, intellectual history, Republic of Letters, Commons, Public Library of Science, Creative Commons, Internet Archive, copyleft

Description: “*The field of knowledge is the common property of mankind.*” Jefferson With his newest book, Common as Air, Hyde has returned to offer a critique of the idea that all creative work is "intellectual property" and to elucidate and defend our "cultural commons". [More of Ward Sutton's review][1]. [1]: http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Drawn-to-Read/Common-as-Air/ba-p/3167