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"overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it," wrote federal ninth circuit court of appeals judge alex kozinski in a recent copyright ruling. "culture is impossible without 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."

- fiona morgan, "copywrong: copyright laws are stifling art, but the public domain can save us," independent weekly december 3, 2003

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