WGBH Forum Network; Common As Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership
Digital Commonwealth — WGBH

WGBH Forum Network; Common As Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership

Hyde, Lewis · January 26, 2011

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — WGBH

Lewis Hyde defends the concept of the "cultural commons." How has our cultural heritage, the store of ideas, art, and inventions we have inherited from the past, come to be seen as "intellectual property?" Have we taken the concept of "ownership" too far?

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