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(Re-)Defining the Public Domain

by: Carl Malamud

Publication date: 2007

Usage: Public Domain

Topics: public domain, Internet, Governance, hooptedoodle

Language: English

University of California at Berkeley
School of Information

Distinguished Lecture Series
(Re-)Defining the Public Domain
Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 4:00pm-6:00pm

While much of the focus on intellectual property goes to battles over copyright or patents, we should not forget that a large proportion of such material is not property at all. The public domain is available for all to use. Of particular interest for the public domain is the U.S. government, all of whose work is available without restriction for all of us to use.

In this lecture, Carl Malamud explains the principles of the public domain with particular emphasis on the works of government. He will discuss how government often backs away from the clear principle of no property interests in order to maintain control, and how citizens can change that attitude through concrete actions. Malamud will use his own experience in forcing changes in government policy with numerous agencies to illustrate these general principles.

Credits

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Original podcast audio by Joseph Lorenzo Hall.

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Shotlist

In the spirit of the school of too much information, here are pointers to 54 resources used in this talk:

0:00:08 Berkeley School of Information, <a href="http://ischool.berkeley.edu/">Home Page</a>
0:00:22 Wikimedia Commons: <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Annalee_saxenian_2006_commencement.jpg">AnnaLee Saxenian at 2006 Commencement</a>
0:00:46 Berkeley School of Information, <a href="<a href="http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/events/dls20071017">Distinguished Lecture Series</a>
0:01:03 Flickr Photo Set, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joebeone/sets/72157602486563222/">Carl Malamud's Lecture</a>
0:03:43 Internet Governance Collection (Hack 3), <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/oscon_washington_mashup">Vint Cerf and the Congress</a>
0:05:57 Internet Archive Collection, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/us_congress">Unsolicited Report to Nancy Pelosi</a>
0:06:48 BoingBoing, <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/01/dear-cspan-youre-not.html">"Dear CSPAN: you're not Disney, Congress isn't Mickey"</a>
0:07:29 BoingBoing, <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/07/cspan-embraces-freel.html">"CSPAN embraces freely copyable video"</a>
0:08:31 Committee on Energy and Commerce, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gov.house.energycommerce.030107.ti.hrgwww">Hearing on Future of the Internet (Lo-Res)</a>
0:09:13 Committee on Energy and Commerce, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gov.house.energy.ti.2007.03.01">Hearing on Future of the Internet (Hi-Res)</a>
0:10:09 Committee on House Administration, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gov.house.cha.09282006-final">Hearing on Election Machines (Lo-Res)</a>
0:10:45 Committee on House Administration, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gov.house.cha.2006.09.28">Hearing on Election Machines (Hi-Res)</a>
0:11:19 Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, <a href="http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1463">Political Interference with Climate Science (Lo-Res)</a>
0:12:06 Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gov.house.oversight.2007.03.19">Political Interference with Climate Science (Hi-Res)</a>
0:12:46 Committee on Energy and the Environment, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gov.house.energy.ti.2007.05.10">Hearing on the Future of Video</a>
0:13:18 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r91dHvmxwk">Congressman Markey's YouTube Video</a>
0:14:51 <a href="http://public.resource.org/letter_to_peters.html">Letter to the Honorable Marybeth Peters</a>
0:15:24 Library of Congress, <a href="http://www.loc.gov/cds/mds.html">Products of the Cataloging and Distribution Service</a>
0:16:23 Library of Congress Blog Post, <a href="http://www.loc.gov/blog/?p=187">In Re the Blogospheric Brouhaha</a>
0:16:35 BoingBoing, <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/30/guerrilla-librarians.html">"Guerilla librarians free the $86k Library of Congress copyright database."</a>
0:16:44 Bulk.Resource.Org, <a href="http://bulk.resource.org/copyright/">Copy of the Copyright Database</a>
0:17:17 U.S. Government Bookstore, <a href="http://bookstore.gpo.gov/collections/eproducts.jsp">Electronic Products Catalog</a>
0:19:08 Internet Governance (Hack 2), <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/oscon_smithsonian_mashup">The Smithsonian Situation</a>
0:22:39 Memorandum, <a href="http://public.resource.org/memo.2007.05.19.html">In Re The Smithsonian</a>
0:23:13 Flickr, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/publicresourceorg/collections/72157600214199993/">Collection of 6,288 Images</a>
0:23:25 Flickr, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/publicresourceorg/sets/72157600215935690/">Images of Washington, D.C.</a>
0:23:30 Lulu.Com, <a href="http://stores.lulu.com/publicresource">Public Domain Prospectus</a>
0:23:47 Flickr, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/publicresourceorg/sets/72157600215552003/">344 Images of Frogs</a>
0:24:08 Flickr, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/publicresourceorg/sets/72157600215594473/">Pictures of Uniforms</a>
0:24:27 Flickr, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/publicresourceorg/collections/72157600218951688/">Hi-Res Muybridge Cyanotypes</a>
0:26:41 MHSA, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gov.dol.mhsa.525">A Little Song About Noise</a>
0:28:25 MHSA, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gov.dol.mhsa.541-s">Customer and Delivery Truck Drivers Hazard</a>
0:28:58 US Fire Administration, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gov.dhs.usfa.fwc-602-03-dvd.1">Fire Behavior in the Wildland/Urban Interface</a>
0:29:17 US Fire Administration, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gov.dhs.usfa.fwc-601-97-v">Building a Firewise Home</a>
0:29:43 Chemical Safety Board, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gov.csb.2007.reactive">Reactive Hazards: Dangers of Uncontrolled Chemical Reactions</a>
0:30:17 US Postal Inspection Service, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gov.uspis.nowhere_to_run">Nowhere to Run: Cross-Border Fraud</a>
0:31:34 ProStores NTIS Mirror, <a href="http://store02.prostores.com/servlet/publicresourceorg/Detail?no=250">"Day of the Killer Tornadoes"</a>
0:31:50 ProStores NTIS Mirror, <a href="http://store02.prostores.com/servlet/publicresourceorg/Categories?category=History">"Search Results: History"</a>
0:32:11 ProStores NTIS Mirror, <a href="http://store02.prostores.com/servlet/publicresourceorg/Detail?no=277">"From Dreams to Reality - A Tribute to Minority Inventors"</a>
0:32:35 Google Video, <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=435853089667284660&hl=en">"From Dreams to Reality - A Tribute to Minority Inventors"</a>
0:33:14 YouTube, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KmYWphSSug">"NTIS Infomercial from Public.Resource.Org"</a>
0:36:19 Judicial Conference of the United States, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gov.ntis.AVA02153VNB1">"Marbury v. Madison"</a>
0:37:09 Judicial Conference of the United States, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gov.ntis.AVA02154VNB1">"McCulloch v. Maryland"</a>
0:37:30 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gov.courts.ca9.2007.08.16">"Hepting v. AT&T"</a>
0:39:27 <a href="http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/">3.6 Gbyte Scan of 2F</a>
0:40:03 <a href="http://supreme.justia.com/us/33/591/case.html">Wheaton v. Peters</a>, 33 U.S. (8 Pet.) 591, 668 (1834)
0:40:40 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pztjqh8Ue4">Irreverent and Childish Mashup of John Candy/The Thomson Corporation</a>
0:42:14 <a href="http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/">153,061 Cases from the U.S. Courts of Appeals</a>
0:43:26 <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/158_F3d_674.htm">Matthew Bender & Co. v. West Publishing Co.</a>, 158 F. 3d 674 (2nd Cir. 1998)
0:44:10 Fish and Wildlife Service, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gov.fws.aws.1.2">Aransas and Matagorda Island National Wildlife Refuges</a>
0:45:10 Fish and Wildlife Service, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gov.fws.aws.1.3">Caribbean Islands in Peril</a>
0:46:20 Fish and Wildlife Service, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gov.fws.aws.2.3">National Wildlife Refuge System</a>
0:46:52 Fish and Wildlife Service, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gov.fws.aws.2.5">National Bison Range Complex</a>
0:47:52 Fish and Wildlife Service, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gov.fws.aws.2.6">Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge</a>