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Severine Dusollier

Public domain, commons and open access

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The Public Domain In Intellectual Property: Beyond The Metaphor Of A Domain, Severine Dusollier Jan 2009

The Public Domain In Intellectual Property: Beyond The Metaphor Of A Domain, Severine Dusollier

Severine Dusollier

No abstract provided.


Le Domaine Public, Garant De L'Intérêt Général En Propriété Intellectuelle ?, Severine Dusollier Jan 2008

Le Domaine Public, Garant De L'Intérêt Général En Propriété Intellectuelle ?, Severine Dusollier

Severine Dusollier

No abstract provided.


Draw Me A Public Domain, Severine Dusollier, Valérie-Laure Benabou Jan 2007

Draw Me A Public Domain, Severine Dusollier, Valérie-Laure Benabou

Severine Dusollier

Copyright is forged from pieces of land taken from the public domain. Absence of any restrictions on the products of the mind and of creation is the rule while intellectual property is the exception. Yet intellectual property has constantly expanded over the realm of the public domain. The on-going commodification of the latter has been regularly denounced in scholarship. This article aims at sketching a regime for the public domain that would contain some rules through which it could resist encroachment by private property. It starts from the analysis that the current perception and regime of the public domain in …


Sharing Access To Intellectual Property Through Private Ordering, Severine Dusollier Jan 2007

Sharing Access To Intellectual Property Through Private Ordering, Severine Dusollier

Severine Dusollier

Property and exclusivity are at the core of the intellectual rights. Traditionnally, copyright or patent rights are seen as tools to exclude others. Oddly enough, copyright and patent holders have started to engage in non-exclusionary practices through open access, open source or open licensing schemes. By using exclusivity not to exclude others but to include them, to share and socialize intellectual property, by giving rights to use, reproduce, modify and distribute works or inventions, those mechanisms reverse the traditional narrative of intellectual property and introduce commons features within the exercise of the right itself. Interestingly, such licensing schemes are based …


Open Source And Copyleft: Authorship Reconsidered ?, Severine Dusollier Dec 2002

Open Source And Copyleft: Authorship Reconsidered ?, Severine Dusollier

Severine Dusollier

No abstract provided.