Common as Air
Common as Air offers a stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past that continues to enrich our present. Suspicious of the current idea that all creative work is "intellectual property," Lewis Hyde turns to America''s founding fathers—men like John Adams, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson—in search of other ways to value the fruits o...
Common as Air offers a stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past that continues to enrich our present. Suspicious of the current idea that all creative work is "intellectual property," Lewis Hyde turns to America''s founding fathers—men like John Adams, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson—in search of other ways to value the fruits o...