{"id":1721,"date":"2010-07-01T12:01:44","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T16:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2010-07-08T14:06:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T18:06:51","slug":"lewis-hyde-on-creating-an-enduring-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/2010\/07\/01\/lewis-hyde-on-creating-an-enduring-commons\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hyde on Creating an Enduring Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The founding generation in the United States hoped to establish a cultural commons of art and ideas, a lively public domain of created works that all of us use because nobody controls it. But the founders did not leave us with any good way to protect this commons. How might an unguarded public domain be converted into a rule-governed and thus durable cultural commons?<\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hyde \u2014 author of the forthcoming book, Common as Air:  Revolution, Art, and Ownership \u2014 is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic with a particular interest in the public life of the imagination.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2010-06-29_hyde\/2010-06-29_hyde.mov\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2010-06-29_hyde\/2010-06-29_hyde.mov.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click Above for Video<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founding generation in the United States hoped to establish a cultural commons of art and ideas, a lively public domain of created works that all of us use because nobody controls it. But the founders did not leave us with any good way to protect this commons. How might an unguarded public domain be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[590],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1747,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions\/1747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}