Crystals in the Public Domain

The law increasingly treats copyright as if it were any other form of property, and numerous writers decry this trend. In particular, scholars who express solicitude for the public domain fear that the "propertization" of copyright threatens an inevitable accretion of pri­vate rights in information at the expense of the public domain. This Ar­ticle questions this conventional view, arguing that the propertization of copyright has unappreciated advantages for users of public information. The conv