Cultural environmentalism is the movement that seeks to protect the public domain. The term was coined by James Boyle, professor at

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

and contributor to the Financial Times.FT.com / Comment & analysis / FT Columnists - James Boyle: Cultural environmentalism?
/ref> The term stems from Boyle's argument that those who seek to protect the public domain are working towards a similar ends as environmentalists. Boyle's contention is that whereas the environmentalist movement illuminated the effects that social decisions can have upon ecology, cultural environmentalists seek to illuminate the effects that intellectual property laws can have upon culture.

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* ttp://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/20/2144214 An IP Environmentalism for Culture and Knowledge? {{Environmentalism Environmentalism Intellectual property law Public domain Science and culture