Chicago-Kent Law Review Volume 82 Issue 2 Symposium: The 50th Anniversary of 12 Article 24 Angry Men April 2007 Codifying a Commons: Copyright, Copyleft, and the Creative Commons Project Adrienne K. Goss Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cklawreview Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Adrienne K. Goss, Codifying a Commons: Copyright, Copyleft, and the Creative Commons Project, 82 Chi.- Kent L. Rev. 963 (2007). Available at: https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cklawreview/vol82/iss2/24 This Notes is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarly Commons @ IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Chicago-Kent Law Review by an authorized editor of Scholarly Commons @ IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. For more information, please contact
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[email protected]. CODIFYING A COMMONS: COPYRIGHT, COPYLEFT, AND THE CREATIVE COMMONS PROJECT ADRIENNE K. Goss* INTRODUCTION Domestic copyright law as we know it is under fire. The advent of the internet; open-source software initiatives; peer-to-peer exchanges; a variety of artistic, cultural, political, and scholarly projects; "click-wrap" contract- ing; changes to default copyright rules-as well as a host of other phenom- ena-have created messy and volatile debates. At the core of these debates are dialogues of power and control and questions fundamental to the order- ing and organization of our "information society." Copyright law is in- creasingly politicized because many understand the production of even innocuous cultural texts as a direct expression of power. I Debates about copyright are thus full of subtexts; they are partly about law, partly about profit, partly about access, and partly about who produces what.