A recent Article by James Boyle in the Finantial Times argues that we are (slowly) moving towards a 'cultural environmentalism' in Digital age, 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( Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society ) there. The symposium trying to explore the development and expansion of the metaphor of "cultural environmentalism" over the course of ten busy years for intellectual property law.
James Boyes Article : http://www.ft.com/cms/s/cc8e24ce-a242-11da-9096-0000779e2340.html Conference Details: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/conferences/cultural/ It seems as a major development in the free cultures/cultural commons movements to study from the merits/demerits of the other civil society movements. ~ Regards Anivar Aravind -- The great moral question of the twenty-first century is: If all knowledge, all culture, all art, all useful information, can be costlessly given to everyone at the same price that it is given to anyone -- if everyone can have everything, everywhere, all the time, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone from anything? - Eben Moglen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ greenyouth mailinglist is the activist support mailinglist for kerala run by Global Alternate Information Applications (GAIA) To post to this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
