Lewis Hyde on "Common as Air"

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Lewis Hyde, MacArthur Fellow, Creative Writing Professor and author of "Common as Air: Revolution, Art and Ownership" tells Steve Paulson that he is skeptical of the entertainment industry's insistence that intellectual property is just like physical property. He invokes the cultural commons – that vast store of art and ideas from the past that enrich everybody's present.