"There can be little doubt that a rich source of open information, an intellectual commons from which new ideas and creativity can be drawn, is crucial to the advancement of our culture and our economy. In seeking policies that would build such a domain, we will do well to recognize that the primary challenge in this regard is to establish a regime tailored
to the production of information; once produced, substantial components of such information will inevitably 'spread . .. like fire, expansible over all space,' irrespective of our best efforts to contain it."

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* Information Wants to Be Free: Intellectual Property and the Mythologies of Control
* R. Polk Wagner
* Columbia Law Review, Vol. 103, No. 4 (May, 2003), pp. 995-1034
* Published by: Columbia Law Review Association, Inc.
* Stable URL: www.jstor.org/stable/1123783