Public Domain and the battle of 2019

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Here it is

“Private property, including intellectual property, is essential to our way of life. It provides an incentive for investment and innovation; it stimulates the flourishing of our culture; it protects the moral entitlements of people to the fruits of their labors. But reducing too much to private property can be bad medicine. Private land, for instance, is far more useful if separated from other private land by public streets, roads and highways. Public parks, utility rights-of-way and sewers reduce the amount of land in private hands, but vastly enhance the value of the property that remains. So too with intellectual property. Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity requires a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new: Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion, each new creator building on the works of those who came before. Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it’s supposed to nurture.”

1993 White v. Samsung http://wiki.lessig.org/Against_perpetual_copyright

 

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Not to bump an old thread or anything, but I've prepared a Gamejam for January based on the idea of public domain. If you guys want to participate, here's the official announcement


http://bestgeekever.blogspot.com/2014/10/public-domain-jam-2014.html?m=1

I don't know if there are any gamemakers in this forum, but if there aren't at least you can check the games.