Lessig on the Public Domain

Lessig writes a piece in the September/October edition of Foreign Policy titled The Public Domain:

Within every culture, there is a public domain—a lawyer-free zone, unregulated by the rules of copyright. Throughout history, this part of culture has been vital to the spread and development of creative work. It is the part that gets cultivated without the permission of anyone else. . . .

It is essential to how cultures develop.