Month: July 2014

The ‘public domain’ is not a useful concept – however useful a term it may be to those who believe in copyright’s abridgement of the public’s liberty, to describe those works not ‘protected’ by copyright.

Liberty is the useful concept.

If an individual has a work in their possession, that was not obtained through burglary, then they are at liberty to do anything they want with it. Not forgetting that, ceteris paribus, this liberty excludes that which deceives (impairs another’s apprehension of the truth), or jeopardises the life of another.