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Old 10-16-2013, 12:43 AM   #254
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Originally Posted by gmw View Post
I'm not sure what you mean here. If the subject is the value of the public domain then you'll note that I said "more definitively value". If the arguments in support of extending copyright further are financial ones, then the best counter will be a financial one. The public domain has a value but it is difficult to define and measure, and I suspect its value may have changed since copyright was first introduced.
You have no basis for limiting the value of the commons to money.
How do you think the value of the commons might have changed?
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