{"id":3345,"date":"2003-09-23T18:15:46","date_gmt":"2003-09-23T22:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2003\/09\/23\/adding-value-and-the-pd-lottery\/"},"modified":"2003-09-23T18:15:46","modified_gmt":"2003-09-23T22:15:46","slug":"adding-value-and-the-pd-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2003\/09\/23\/adding-value-and-the-pd-lottery\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding Value and the PD Lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a366'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><STRONG>UPDATED 9\/24\/03, 6:30 PM<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Ernest coins the term <A href=\"http:\/\/research.yale.edu\/lawmeme\/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=1226\">&#8220;public domain lottery&#8221;<\/A>&nbsp;to describe one possible facet of a CL system. I&#8217;m not convinced it would turn out as he says it does.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Think about public domain books available today. Some are just the bare bones of the book, some have explanatory footnotes, some have prefacing essays, and some even combine several books by one author into one volume.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Won&#8217;t people still download these different versions based on the valued added to the work? Sure, you might be able to get a book onto a P2P system first. But once someone adds literary criticism to the work, perhaps many will shift to downloading that version.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>[added:] &#8230;and <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/discuss\/msgReader$366?mode=topic\">follow the discussion<\/A>&nbsp;(this link leads to a clearer version than <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/comments?u=cmusings&amp;p=366&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.law.harvard.edu%2Fcmusings%2F2003%2F09%2F23%23a366\">the comments field<\/A>)&nbsp;&#8211; I&#8217;m adding more&nbsp;points in there.<\/STRONG><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATED 9\/24\/03, 6:30 PM Ernest coins the term &#8220;public domain lottery&#8221;&nbsp;to describe one possible facet of a CL system. I&#8217;m not convinced it would turn out as he says it does. Think about public domain books available today. Some are just the bare bones of the book, some have explanatory footnotes, some have prefacing essays, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}