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Example sentences for: commons

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The Creative Commons Attribution License (CCAL), which governs this editorial and all other content in PLoS Biology , permits a number of uses of articles that are typically restricted and for which there is an immediate demand.
“We are convinced,” concluded a recent report from the Science and Technology Committee of the United Kingdom's House of Commons, “that the amount of public money invested in scientific research and its outputs is sufficient to merit Government involvement in the publishing process” (House of Commons Science and Technology Committee 2004).
I say it is changing the Net by changing the architecture; you say it won't affect the commons, only the "gated communities" and "side-by-side" networks.
By the way, the "tragedy of the commons" is not a theoretical construct from a 1960s environmentalist.
But the story I told in my book--I thought ad infinitum, but apparently not enough--was of changes that would affect the commons.