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Encyclopedia > Cultural environmentalism

A term coined by James Boyle, professor at Duke University and contributor to the Financial Times [1], cultural environmentalism refers to the movement that seeks to protect the public domain. The term stems from Boyle's argument that those who seek to protect the public domain are working towards a similar ends as environmentalists. Boyle's contention is that whereas the environmentalist movement illuminated the effects that social decisions can have upon ecology, cultural environmentalists seek to illuminate the effects that intellectual property laws can have upon culture. james boyle is the most important person in american history he went there in 1994 and 2001 he changed the way the country ran ... Duke University is a private coeducational research university located in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. ... The Financial Times (FT) is an international business newspaper printed on distinctive salmon pink broadsheet paper. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... Environmentalism is activism aimed at improving the environment, particularly nature. ... For the 2006 film, see Intellectual Property (film). ...


External links

  • Cultural Environmentalism at 10.
  • James Boyle: Cultural environmentalism?
  • A Politics of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism for the Net?
  • An IP Environmentalism for Culture and Knowledge?


 
 

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