Complementary to the private domain, which certainly is under pressure: the public domain, also at a critical juncture.

Get inspired. How about this for a goal: "universal access to all human knowledge". Public access to the public domain. Is that crazy? Brewster Kahle argues no, indeed: we ought, can, may, and possibly will.

This is over an hour streaming video, but worth every minute. There's nothing on TV anyway, right? If you're really time-strapped, jump in to 46:10, or 54:00 (say). But you'll still miss the awe-inspiring bookmobile and much more. And the scandal of thomas.

More of the series might be worth a look sometime, too!

(I found this on Jon Schull's weblog. But it took a while to realize he'd cut-and-patseyed a paragraph from boingboing. Go follow that link, you'll see what I mean. It's not in any way misattribution, but I don't much like it!).